President of Thomas Jefferson university resigns after ‘liking’ unapproved tweets: In "higher education," no one is allowed to question COVID-19 vaccines, child genital mutilation, or anything related to "diversity."

American Thinker ^ | 07/27/2023 | Eric Utter

[SeekAndFind]

Dr. Mark Tykocinski recently resigned as president of Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University after coming under fire for “liking tweets” critical of COVID vaccines and trans surgeries for kids. The unbridled audacity! He’s lucky he didn’t get the electric chair!

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You know the concept of free speech is out the proverbial window when one can no longer even make a one-word ‘comment’ on someone else’s speech!

This news would be distressing to Thomas Jefferson, were he alive today, as he and the rest of the founders knew that ‘democracy’ is impossible without the absolute right to freedom of speech.

The Inquirer reported that Tykocinski will also no longer be interim dean of Jefferson’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College. On April 29th, the paper published a story stating that Tykocinski “has used his Twitter account to ‘like’ tweets that question the science of COVID-19 vaccines, call gender reassignment surgery ‘child mutilation,’ and are critical of diversity offices on college campuses, among other controversial topics.” He questioned ‘science,’ stated an obvious truth…and then proceeded to offer an opinion? Egads!

Any college employee, no matter the position that person holds, should know that no one is allowed to question COVID-19 vaccines, child genital mutilation gender reassignment surgeries, or anything related to ‘diversity.’ I mean, ‘Hello!’

It is, however, perfectly okay to like a tweet in favor of child genital mutilation, abortion, the forced acceptance of experimental mRNA vaccines into everyone’s bodies whether they ‘like’ it or not, BLM riots, the legalization of formerly illicit drugs, human trafficking, the destruction of Israel -- and the physical assault of former President Trump. None of which is ‘hate speech,’ of course, and all of which is protected.

‘Like’ that? It’s okay if you do. There will be no repercussions.

[jimfree]

TJU supports child abuse.

[circlecity]

If you work for any government funded institution or large corporation you should always post anonymously. If you want to keep your job that is.

[knarf]

Wellll . . . how in the world did TJU keep it's name in these re-evaluated "historical" times ?

GFU . . . george floyyd university.

[Fido969]

The genital mutilation argument by the lefties defies logic. They claim:

1. The purpose of such legislation to to condemn the Muslim community.

2. It happens so rarely that we don’t need a law.

But it’s bad, and does happen, so why not pass a law?

[I want the USA back]

Social media are being used to identify, trap and punish people who won’t accept the currently mandated ways of thinking.

They identify dissenters which the thought gestapo takes care of.

[Savage Beast]

'In "higher education," no one is allowed to question COVID-19 vaccines, child genital mutilation, or anything related to "diversity." anything that conflicts with the PARTY LINE--especially TRUTH.

TRUTH FOR ITS OWN SAKE is not even a consideration.

[rightwingcrazy]

The very most questionable things are the ones that you are forbidden to question.

[budj]

Apparently, his “likes” were accurate.

[AZJeep]

After the horrors of Stalin, the communists in Eastern Europe sort of mellowed. The executions, torture, and gulags abated.
The main method of oppression became firing from your job, if you somehow became a target.
The modern day communists are learning fast!

[pas]

Wuss make them fire you.

[Grampa Dave]

The very most questionable things are the ones that you are forbidden to question.

[Grampa Dave]

re questions

[Albion Wilde]

This so-called research university includes the formerly highly esteemed Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in center city Phildelphia, a major medical school.

Woke is criminal.

[Liz]

Disney World district abolishes diversity, equity initiatives

BY MIKE SCHNEIDER,apnews.com
Updated 4:58 PM EDT, August 1, 2023

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Diversity, equity and inclusion programs were abolished Tuesday from Walt Disney World’s governing district, now controlled by appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis, in an echo of the Florida governor’s agenda which has championed curtailing such programs in higher education and elsewhere.

The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District said in a statement that its diversity, equity and inclusion committee would be eliminated, as would any job duties connected to it. Also axed were initiatives left over from when the district was controlled by Disney supporters, which awarded contracts based on goals of achieving racial or gender parity.

Glenton Gilzean, the district’s new administrator who is African American and a former head of the Central Florida Urban League, called such initiatives “illegal and simply un-American.” Gilzean has been a fellow or member at two conservative institutions, the James Madison Institute and the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network, as well as a DeSantis appointee to the Florida Commission on Ethics.

“Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal,” Gilzean said in a statement. “As the former head of the Central Florida Urban League, a civil rights organization, I can say definitively that our community thrives only when we work together despite our differences.”