Another university president has been made to bow and scrape because he had the audacity to like certain tweets. Mind you, he did not tweet these items. He just liked them. Dr. Tom Woods gives us the lowdown.
Another weakling has let the mob intimidate him into a phony apology.
Mark Tykocinski, president of Thomas Jefferson University and dean of its medical college, just got in trouble for having “liked” 30 tweets from Alex Berenson, a well-known critic of the foolish Covid “mitigation” policies as well as the shots.
A reporter for the Philadelphia Enquirer actually wrote an article about what tweets an academic liked. That’s 2023 America for you.
For those of you who don’t use Twitter, to “like” a Tweet (which in turn is a statement shared by a Twitter user) amounts to clicking a heart icon under the Tweet.
But even that, dear friend, is not allowed. In 2023, as it’s obvious that everything the dissidents ever said about Covid turns out to have been 100 percent right, we evidently still have to pretend “The Science” was right about everything.
Reporter Susan Snyder writes, “A few of the hundreds of tweets he liked could be classified as legitimate scientific discussion about COVID vaccines, but many, however, represent controversial stances.”
Oh, no! Controversial stances! You mean we might have a university president who doesn’t just repeat meaningless platitudes and lazily parrot every elite obsession? Not allowed, citizen!
He also liked a Tweet opposing the genital mutilation of children, and a Tweet linking to a Wall Street Journal article skeptical of the “diversity” religion. And we know there is only one permissible opinion on each of those things.
There is a straitjacket for allowable opinions on these matters. If one ventures outside the boundaries of such thinking, one will be made to submit to the overlords who proclaim such nonsense to be the truth. As Dr. Woods noted, all COVID mitigation policies have turned out to be wrong. Those who held so-called conspiracy theories have been vindicated over and over again. But the brainwashed still inhabit the media centers of the country and are still spouting nonsense.
Dr. Woods goes on.
But of course, instead of standing up for himself and telling the weirdos and censors to buzz off and stop trying to silence every last dissident on Earth, Tykocinski pretended not to understand the significance of liking a tweet: “I regret my lack of understanding of how ‘liking’ a tweet is an implied endorsement. I also regret how my lack of understanding of the Twitter platform caused some to question my views on these complex issues.”
Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya responded to this bizarre incident thus:
The more I think about this, the more absurd it seems. A reporter used her time and the authority of her publication to spy on what the president of a medical school “likes” on Twitter. Not posts. Not even RTs, though that would also be absurd.
That medical school and president responded by an abject apology for thought crimes.
America is having a Maoist moment. Medical schools are an epicenter of an insane cultural revolution. I hope it ends soon.
A Maoist moment indeed.
This approach by Susan Snyder obliterates the idea of the First Amendment. The foundation of all four freedoms inn the First Amendment is the right to think whatever thoughts one wants to think. Snyder obviously believes that that freedom should not exist.
Dr. Woods asks the question.
Why don’t more people resist?
I’m reminded of the anonymous FDA official who recently said, speaking of the Covid madness, that there are plenty of people around here who don’t like what’s going on but they say they just need to stick it out until they reach retirement.
Resistance is necessary if we are to regain the freedoms the Left is trying to take away from us. Going along to get along is no longer a viable option.