There was much for which Penn assistant professor Julia Alekseyeva should apologize.
In a TikTok video she stated she has "never been prouder" to be a UPenn professor because of the apparent actions of Nicholas Mangione, a UPenn alumnus (pictured below), who is under arrest for the murder of the CEO.
During the video she moves her finger to the beat of a song about angry revolutionaries rising up in battle from the musical Les Miserables.
In an Instagram post she refers to Mangione as the “icon we all need and deserve.”
Diane Gramley of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania.
"How many other professors at the University of Pennsylvania support what she's saying, but they just are not verbalizing it the way she is. It’s a poor reflection on the University of Pennsylvania.”
However, Alekseyeva soon apologized for her comments on X by writing, "These were completely insensitive and inappropriate, and I retract them wholly."
Think it through on the front end
However, Gramley says the post was inexcusable.
“You need to think through what you're going to write before you put it down for the public across not only the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but across the world to see your, your post."
Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro chimed in and said, "In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint. He is no hero."
But Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) says that while “violence is never the answer” sometimes it’s an understood reaction that people should just live with.
“This guy gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of United Health. But you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands,” Warren (shown above) said in an MSNBC interview.
