'Can You Explain Why The Word Folks Is Spelled Folx?': Jim Banks Grills Columbia Pres Over Terms

At today's House Education Committee hearing, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grilled Columbia University President Minouche Shafik about words in a handbook handed out to students.
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[@TheBugkillah]

They’re letting the inmates run the asylum and act surprised when the lunatics do absurd things? Who are the crazy ones here?

[@farzana6676]

By design, they've allowed the ultra leftists to run the asylum.

[@krasavam1625]

She is such a liar

[@youtube.pimpin]

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[@BatMan-iy1li]

So you're only for free speech when it applies to you ......got it

[@dextermoore278]

Exactly what I was thinking. The President of Columbia University is actually afraid of the STUDENT PROTESTERS. She's a liar and a coward.

[@vicnickmusicvideos]

She’s playing “dumb”

[@lward9675]

I don't think she's playing

[@theevermind]

A key give away is the repeating of a rehearsed answer instead of natural dialog. She knows the correct answer, but she won't say it. It's also evident when people refuse to answer the question and instead fall back on the point they want to make.

[@RachelOfArcadia]

And it’s not working at all lol

[@PrlssG]

Well she is respecting the student freedom of speech. Given the history of US and Israel I think the people have had enough. We the people want to mind our own business, and quit financially supporting foreign powers when we have issues at home.

[@barneyrice8502]

She Is Playing DEM On Him This Is The Way DEMS Answer Everything They Beat Around The Bush Until The timer Runs Out And Then Smile Because They Have Done The DEM THING And NOT ANSWERED ONE QUESTION ASKED THEM !!

[@marksharnsky5587]

Colleges have gone down the toilet

[@SuperOdyss]

BECAUSE the taxpayers are funding the students to go and be indoctrinated by the terrorists. STOP the student loan program, tell students to get a loan from a bank.

[@rustybeachwood4613]

They are the toilet.

[@allanford2663]

@@rustybeachwood4613 This is the democrats indoctrination planned for fifty years that has come to fruition .. Biden let this happened because he doesn't want to lose michigan..

[@carltontaylor6500]

How so?

[@watchcitydog]

They were created that way.

[@chatify68]

Just like UPenn and Harvard, this woman MUST GO!!!

[@theevermind]

Why is it always women we see doing this?

[@michaelwilliams7400]

No,.you're the cancel culture we've been fighting against.

[@Quantiples]

It seems that Ivy League schools are the worst

[@Meowser186]

Poison Ivy now days.

[@linnpierce]

Entitled.

[@allanford2663]

50 years of indoctrination from a professor that said the 7th was AWESOME AND IS STILL WORKING THERE???!! NO EXCUSES FOR NOT FIRING THAT HATER!

[@carolyncvaldez257]

🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮

[@thereisnosuchthingasanativ904]

I hope companies start denying grads with Ivy League degrees. That’s the best thing to do. Make their education or lack there of completely useless. If you run a private business you can hire anyone you please. I just won’t hire anyone from them schools if I run the show, no problem.

[@Youtubeisafascistcompany]

She should be fired immediately.

[@kimberlypotts3874]

AMEN

[@sendryuti596]

Shame on her ..everything she dont know or denial

[@joaquimrodrigues3869]

THE DONORS MUST....fire her..

[@puraLusa]

It isn't about hiring or firing. It's the uni protocols who have failed. Either campus events/ publications need venting and aproval or they don't. If they don't than college isn't responsible for events or publications and thus can't be liable. Mind u that events/ publication venting fall under censorship vs freedom of speach on college permisses. Plus, how private vs public is a university?

[@puraLusa]

​@@joaquimrodrigues3869donnors might agree with these events/ publications.

[@s8x.]

so she is saying the faculty have no control over what the students do😂

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

Well clowns are usually hired to entertain kids so

[@sherrillsturm7240]

IF IT'S NOT ILLEGAL, THERE IS NOTHING THE SCHOOL CAN DO. WHY IS THIS A MYSTERY?

[@log_14]

They don't

[@rcnelson]

Except of course when students say something conservative or anti-woke.

[@aravindyadav8225]

Yes, and thats how it is in most places. Universities are not meant to run like communist organizations where students are suppressed by faculty.

[@Ant0417]

The material is being handed out to students at orientation to be used as a guide in their education. Saying this is “not a product of the university” is ridiculous.

[@wmiller1000]

@@artandarchitecture6399 So you would be just fine with students handing out KKK or N@zi 'guides' to new students then? Yes? No?

[@PChazman1]

I imagine that KKK recruiting flyers might be prohibited, but according to these genius college representatives, maybe not.

[@jool7793]

The way she pretends like the school doesn’t control everything that is done during orientation is extremely dishonest.

[@ojaichuck]

Allowing this 'information' to be handed put to students by the university, then it should have been reviewed by the faculty. Not doing so is undermining their education system.

[@Christopher-iv6sn]

@@artandarchitecture6399 it’s not just free speech when it’s solicited to all students during an official university orientation. The implication for the students is that it is an official document from the university unless otherwise stated. Also, the university is public, but the orientation is private attendance for students and families of students to attend. It’s just a shitty disingenuous and manipulative practice, not simply free speech. Students operating like that are hiding under the guise of official proceedings to legitimize their positions among the freshman. It’s a tactic used by people who can’t stand on their arguments without grifting people to believe them. If the ideas are rational and backed by solid nuanced research, they wouldn’t need to do shit like this to convince people.

[@goodbooks5134]

She should be ashamed of herself and resign.

[@allanford2663]

LIBERALS HAVE NO SHAME! THE WHOLE OF EVERY EXPERT FROM ALLAN D. TO JONATHAN TURLEY BOTH DEMOCRATS SAY THE TRIAL AGAINST TRUMP IS THE WEAPONIZED JUSTICE SYSTEM AND OBVIOUS..SO THEY KEEP HIM FROM CAMPAIGNING..GAG HIM AND THATS CLEAR ELECTION INTERFERENCE RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION! THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DIDNT EVEN WANT TO BRING THIS BS CASE!

[@theevermind]

Also, expel all the students who are a part of this.

[@BatMan-iy1li]

​@theevermind ......so are you against free speech or just the speech you don't like ? ...... asking for a friend

[@Blitz9H]

They have no shame. They have no humility

[@allanford2663]

@Blitz9H you got that right! BIDEN WOULDN'T EVEN ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT IT AFTER HE OPENED UP HIS LITTLE MUMBLING SPEECH SAYING HE WOULD! HE DIDNT ANSWER SHOUTED QUESTIONS HE JUST WALKED AWAY TURNING HIS BACK ON ISRAEL BECAUSE HE LOVES HIMSELF AND IS LETTING THIS FESTER BECAUSE OF MICHIGAN! 😡 😤

[@avi82625]

O m g I had no idea of the extent of the antisemitism . This is extreme. And the fact it is not punished immediately, is a form of encouragement

[@allanford2663]

Biden NEEDS THEM LIKE BLM

[@heni8794]

It shocking! In here watch 😢

[@davidva8694]

If it’s handed out by the school then the school has authorized it, regardless who prepared the document.

[@samdajellybeenie14]

It’s not handed out by the school, did you hear what she said? It’s handed out by students to other students. It sounds like the college had no idea this was circulating.

[@kenangerstein3561]

@@samdajellybeenie14 He said it was handed out during orientation. So, are you saying, during an official orientation presented by the school, other people, are interrupting the process to hand out student prepared material?

[@aravindyadav8225]

@@kenangerstein3561 It was handed out by other students unofficially during orientation, but may not be part of the formal orientation program of the university.

[@kenangerstein3561]

@@aravindyadav8225 understand

[@caseyporter1235]

@@aravindyadav8225 So if a KKK member handed out anti Black propaganda and the school found out later, don't you think the administration would quickly prohibit anymore handouts and expel the distributers of such hatred? But since it is directed towards Jews, its just..."Oh well, we know nothing"......

[@noodengr3three825]

You can rest assured had any Colombia students handed out orientation pamplets with any hint of anti Muslim or Black info the university would have banned it from the campus .

[@masterpen510]

You left out LGBT.

[@norman_5623]

How could you be educated in America without learning about the First Amendment?

[@mimiruss8444]

@@norman_5623how could you?? If it’s freedom of speech then they should be able to say the same thing about ANY other group .. and you definitely wouldn’t be for that

[@norman_5623]

@@mimiruss8444 You should learn to not make assumptions without any facts to back them up. I used to work in law firms. Some of the attorneys I worked for argued cases before the Supreme Court. They taught me that the US Constitution protected all speech, including speech we disagreed with, such as the Nazis marching in Skokie -- or the Zionists arguing for the illegal occupation of Israel. And in college we read John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which is the classic argument for free speech; look it up.

[@mimiruss8444]

@@norman_5623 I don’t know who you think you’re talking to or what you think I said. I’m all for free speech, but if they can call for the 💀 of the Jews, why can’t someone call for the 💀 of the LGBTQ’s? What is the difference? Why is one form of speech protected and the other not that was my point

[@aislynnmari]

"Ummm...bc they don't know how to spell??" But you accepted them into an Ivy League school 😭😭😭

[@royrogers3404]

That Senator was in no mood for jokes.

[@CCFONESOL]

Have you been on the internet long?

[@BabyMonkeyDefender]

I commented what you said. Then I saw yours and deleted mine. 😁

[@aislynnmari]

@@BabyMonkeyDefender that's so sweet 😊

[@leguminous7564]

It's very clearly a cutesy way to make the pamphlet seem more approachable. Not her fault, or anyone's that they're too old to understand that.

[@susanevans3865]

Why is she testifying? She is clueless.

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

Because it does the country a lot of good to see how fake our so-called "elites" really are.

[@ceegee9064]

PRETENDING to be clueless

[@chibakutensei8799]

Why is she testifying should have been the end of the sentence. This is fake outrage for our masters. Literally no jewish students are in danger at Columbia.

[@freak.558]

She's a lier

[@TheGweedMan]

Don’t send your kids to Columbia. In fact, don’t send your kids to any Ivy League school. Let me be clear; the Ivy in Ivy league is dying. There are many many other schools that provide equivalent, education, are less expensive, and have people in charge who actually know what they’re doing and what’s going on in their university. If I were that president, I would be so embarrassed by my lack of knowledge.

[@beecnul8r]

Yep USC. UCLA. UC Santa Barbara, all have excellent reputations.

[@tlindsay1007]

I would add to that advice that ANY university or college that espouses the DEI lie should be avoided. They will brainwash your kids to become racists and hate our country. Learning a skill like mechanics, carpenter, electrician, plumbing, etc, is a great alternative. Those jobs are paying very well.

[@alfonsecoppola5938]

at a third the price

[@rmx6737]

@@beecnul8r are you slow?? they are just the same...

[@idontsurf1]

Don’t sweat it Weedman, your kids and nobody you know are in danger of going to an Ivy League school.

[@chief3378]

It's not part of the school but the students handed out and we approved it

[@Tati8796]

This giggling really gets to you. "I do not know what my students do, I do not care what my students do. I am not responsible for anything" Wanna bet she knew?

[@soliniv1411]

"I stand by nothing" 😂

[@Hwarang-lee.]

Lol what university did you go to?

[@Phantom1127-ck3qr]

​you're obviously a Biden supporter, you need an education,

[@Tati8796]

@@Hwarang-lee. Are you asking me? I have received my education abroad. I am an immigrant and a legal one (horrible, right?)

[@Hwarang-lee.]

@@Tati8796 Nope perfect and it shows why you think our school monitor's every pamphlet handed out by students. This is 🇺🇸 home of the free we do what we want without overlords and dictators telling us we can't. Even as Republicans advocate for censorship in schools while crying about it online.

[@Monaco_mechanical]

University nonsense. These people dont deserve their jobs

[@kenv9191]

Free speech means allowing people to speak words that you disagree with

[@Upsideround]

They said they didn't have anything to do with it. Hold them accountable for every piece of paper a student hands out? You are pathetic

[@GhettoBabyGenius]

Intelligence operation

[@theoneafterthelast]

​@@kenv9191except when that free speech is hate speech funded by government money.

[@kenv9191]

@@theoneafterthelast Taxpayers might help fund the school, but not the speech. Regardless, the constitution protects all free speech from government interference, including “hate speech.”

[@stephen6640]

Another example of weak and failed supervision and management. NO ACCOUNTABILITY

[@theevermind]

No, not weak supervision. This is deliberate. They delegate the heinous acts to students so their hands can stay 'clean.' They know what they are doing.

[@citomp1240]

And all those student loans went into the pockets of people like this.

[@wangobadankas4038]

How does that work?

[@kenv9191]

A college supports free speech, this is a good thing.

[@macanocious3000]

He meant your taxes. Your tax dollars paid him to do this......

[@themaestro3034]

How do loans go into pockets? What are you are whining about now, Trump fluffer?

[@ivorleak8823]

@@themaestro3034 lol, did you fluff for big Mike?

[@desertcat4193]

Our tax dollars shouldn't be going to this nonsense. Defund all of these Universities. (Edit: and for those who believe Columbia only takes private money look at their financials on their website. Their financial aid and grant money comes from the federal government)

[@aravindyadav8225]

Columbia is a private university, not public. So tax dollars are not funding it.

[@portostrengthunion]

Columbia is private my good friend.

[@desertcat4193]

@@portostrengthunion Calling Columbia "private" is just a ruse. The financial aid they offer comes from the federal government. Most of their grant money comes from the federal government. I'll edit my original comment to clarify this fact for the naive.

[@portostrengthunion]

Financial Aid is given to students, not directly to the university. Those who qualify can choose where they go to school. Grant money has to submitted for. Big Corporations get vastly larger sums of money. Your point is kind of muddled.

[@desertcat4193]

@@portostrengthunion Doesn't matter. Columbia still BENIFITS from financial aid and grant money because they don't have to open their own coffers for this purpose.

[@rnrhodes9256]

She certainly has that whole deflection, pass the buck protocol down pat. 😂😂😂

[@allanford2663]

Like BRIBEM

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

I think she does it poorly.

[@Nedchilvs]

Like all of them

[@jenniferb8583]

The word folks is spelled FOLKS not Folx! It's ludicrous that the President of the University is not aware what is being handed out to the students!

[@JackHaveman52]

Maybe those students are trying to mask that the word "folks" is an English translation of the German word "volks" and that the Nazis were very outspoken about the idea of "Volksgemeinschaft". "Volksgemeinschaft, in Nazi Germany, a racially unified and hierarchically organized body in which the interests of individuals would be strictly subordinate to those of the nation, or Volk." From the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Radical socialist don't want to be associate with the Nazis even though they tend to believe in the same racially charged ideals. Whoopi Goldberg tried to do the same thing when she said the Holocaust wasn't about race. Of course, she'd say that. The ideology of The View is all about race and she supports it. She's trying to separate the race ideology of the Nazis and her own racially charged beliefs. Word manipulation has always been a major tool in the radical socialist armoury. It's how they control thought.

[@tbone9474]

​@@JackHaveman52these students are not smart enough to know this

[@JackHaveman52]

@@tbone9474 Unfortunately, that's true. An indication of the blight that is our educational system, these days.

[@valerie11112]

They say folx like hoax. Total nazis

[@margricks]

She knows. She doesn't care. Fire her.

[@matthewsgauge]

74 and you still learn something new everyday. Folx? Disgusting stuff

[@garylancaster3995]

These people are so weak. They couldn't live in the real world where you have to answer for your actions.

[@CCFONESOL]

Lol

[@mogznwaz]

Unfortunately this IS the real world now.

[@TuhljinTampergauge]

@@mogznwaz2A and fix.

[@thomasjones4570]

Did this woman NOT see the previous committee with the heads of other colleges?!? Her sitting there giggling at her responsibilities is dumbfounding. Replace the topic of that paper and drop in some shit they associate with "MAGA" and I bet suddenly that pamphlet is banned and the students handing it out are expelled.

[@zenalotz]

I thought her misspelling comment was funny in that the congressman seemed to deceptively want some answer he already knew and she gave him her best guess which he didn't expect.

[@user-wm3bf7pi3u]

@@zenalotz I'm amazed no one took the bait of the other question.... Answer - Hollywood.

[@norman_5623]

How did you get through the education system without learning about the First Amendment?

[@kenv9191]

She is the opposite of the other heads of university that were fired. She believes in allowing people to voice unpopular opinions. That’s called free speech, and is unfortunately becoming a bad thing in colleges. The other university leaders tried to suppress free speech. That’s a big mistake. Free speech has to allow people to voice offensive points of view.

[@kenv9191]

We already have way too much regulating of free speech at universities. People love to complain when they don’t like the opinion, but it is all protected free speech… which includes “hate speech”.

[@jimpenfold5640]

How embarrassing that someone who is supposedly in a postion of authority tiptoes around the fact an ill written, antisemitic pamphlet is allowed to circulate to all incoming students in an Ivy League school.

[@allanbird3725]

It's not an "official product" but it is an officially-sanctioned product at the university.

[@jollyg83]

I bet if it was a pro Trump piece of literature, the university wouldn’t allow it’s distribution.

[@smyttor]

I didn't see where that was stated.

[@Upsideround]

Nowhere was it sanctioned. You have no way of knowing anything.

[@jacobmoretz3243]

Not only would banning this be a negative impact to the school's incoming student base, it would be an overstep concerning the student's right to expression. When I attended university, vegans passed out pamphlets with animals inside to people that were eating meat. They had little descriptions of their daily lives and how they were brutalized by the meat industry. I'm not a vegan, and I love meat, so I fucking ignored them and threw the pamphlets away. I will not let the same people speaking out about "the nanny state" try to ban pamphlets because they don't like the contents. Fuck that, the students can make their own decisions about what is and isn't acceptable, they are grown adults. They don't need you to protect them from nonexistent threats.

[@TuhljinTampergauge]

@@UpsideroundIt is sanctioned because it is condoned. QED. They hand it out at orientation. AT orientation, en masse, de facto officially. Not later on campus like a normal tract. And their own website echoes that stuff, including the coded spelling of "folx."

[@sherryford667]

Can she define "beating around the bush"?

[@richarddrapeau7599]

Im in charge but take no responsibility for what the people Im in charge of do.

[@user-wm3bf7pi3u]

Don't knock it, I'd love to get piles of cash for being incompetent and lazy.

[@CCFONESOL]

Like the police?

[@Distortion0]

Bro, it's a glossary.

[@jamiegonzalez159]

That’s Democrat policy for you

[@fragwagon]

​@@Distortion0glossaries are for words. Is Grup in there, as well as Before-Time? Watch out or bonk bonk! On the head!

[@arielioffe1810]

It’s extra funny that they got the definition of “Ashkenazi” wrong… If they knew anything about the subject they’d know that Ashkenazi Jews come from EASTERN and not WESTERN Europe. (formerly) Western European Jews (most of which were unfortunately expelled many times from their home countries) are called Sephardi.

[@janetrogers4738]

Thankfully the man gave a straight answer.

[@jaytaylor2312]

This woman looks so incompetent

[@mikemelina7395]

I wonder what the Jewish Alumni are going to think and whether they will be rethinking their donations.

[@mrradman2986]

Typical Marxist.

[@dutchreagan3676]

I, for one, am not always in favor of DEI hires

[@nicksochacki9719]

She has not once said she is trying to stop this from being distributed and has not given any plan or steps to cease it from continuing. She has no intention of doing anything about this.

[@norman_5623]

Yes, this is America. Students have free speech.

[@catherinehazur7336]

She will say whatever she has to to get them off her back. She loves the title but was hired for her ability to play dumb and to drift along with the program handed down to her from on high.

[@theoneafterthelast]

Yes, ​@@norman_5623. And some free speech should come with repercussions, the same as if the students put out anti-black propaganda. This isn't a free speech issue you dense potato.

[@tlindsay1007]

​@@norman_5623But, would that document be acceptable on campus if it was against black people?

[@missngfrombrooklyn]

​@@theoneafterthelastThat actually is protected speech. In order for speech to be illegal, it must cause imminent danger. Maybe you are the one whose dense? And there is nothing racist about that definition. It's merely trying to educate students that not all jewish people are white. Not all Hindus are Indian. Not all Muslims are Arab. Are these racist statements? Go touch grass.

[@MarthaKotti-hz1ht]

This woman must be fired and go.

[@user-ed3yi2nv9g]

CANNOT GIVE A STRAIGHT ANSWER.

[@jerrywemhoff]

Columbia University tuition is like 400 fucking grand per semester and the president of the school is like "yeah our kids can't fucking spell lol"

[@leguminous7564]

It's not even 400 grand the entire 4 years what are you smoking 😭😭

[@user-im2hz4ki2o]

@@leguminous7564Are you deliberately trying to be obtuse? He was clearly being facetious…

[@BabyMonkeyDefender]

Money doesn't make smart people.

[@leguminous7564]

​@user-im2hz4ki2o Ivy Leagues aren't as unaffordable as people think though, so it's a pretty bad exaggeration. The majority of students receive hefty financial aid.

[@jerrywemhoff]

@@leguminous7564 I was throwing out a big number for hyperbolic effect, thanks for completely missing the point though sport.

[@gregorylewis320]

Oh boy! They don’t quit! Just more lies. Is she kidding me.

[@bethlyons1]

She should be fired on the spot !

[@ektapaivarma9644]

This lady is completely incompetent and needs to be terminated

[@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205]

Maybe the faculty should be involved in the students guidebook.

[@kl.1993]

Not the current faculty. They need new faculty and a new president!

[@cats.cant.contour8812]

I would like to note as a southern where folks is used on a daily basis- It's not gendered biased. It just means people in general You don't need to add an "x" to make it inclusive because by its own definition it is already inclusive. Attempting to change it to folx is redundant. You're not making a statement, you're not "improving inclusivity". You look silly.

[@NinJin-619]

Exactly

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

I didn't know that about the word "folks" but always assumed it was all inclusive. Never any issue. These people complaining or using made up words just want to feel special, not included. You're spot on!

[@sherrillsturm7240]

This is completely stupid. "Z" and "X" are commonly used, especially with young people, as in "rulz" or "tix." Written by students to other students, it is their slang, and more likely to be received by them as coming from their peers.

[@slacktoryrecords4193]

@@sherrillsturm7240no, it’s not exclusively used by young people. It’s common in “progressive” circles. Spelled that way by adult people who don’t use cute, teenage ways of spelling in other instances. Why even use the word ‘folks’ anyway (let alone ‘folx’)? Is ‘people’ problematic somehow?

[@dexter1450]

Huh, I think the FBI needs to investigate this University...

[@elibethguillen4361]

I’m sick to my stomach to hear what this people are allowing to happen before their eyes.

[@ThrockmortonJGildersleeve]

When FJB says "Listen Folks" .... has he been addressing everyone as "Folx" this whole time ? He loves that word

[@dkajj]

Corn Pop taught him that word

[@user-wm3bf7pi3u]

Folx, that's what hairs grow outa right???

[@Mogul20478]

Who tf is FJB?

[@Asylar343]

@@Mogul20478 Someone who lives rent free in @ThrockmortonJGildersleeve brain.

[@Mogul20478]

@@Asylar343 that doesn't even make sense

[@denjhill]

This is appalling and I would want to know specifically which student penned it. I am not Jewish but it makes me want to cry.

[@dkadkins6545]

The answer seems to be don't hold us responsible for anything in our orientation materials even when we pass it out.

[@cherriethomas9538]

Another wonderful example of where your hard earn money is going to when you send your children to theses people!

[@davidbridenstine6358]

Keep in mind that at age 18, in every state, these are adults with full rights of free speech. What's missing is a code of conduct that specifies discipline up to expulsion. But Columbia wouldn't want to trample their free speech rights, then, huh?

[@UGAPhoenix]

Even though I know it is insane, a newborn child has the same full rights of free speech as someone who is 18. It's in our constitution, and is a right guaranteed to all people living here in the United States.

[@kenv9191]

I hope not. Free speech shouldn’t have disciplinary consequences at a college.

[@stephaniehampton3525]

​@@UGAPhoenixApparently not because they can be aborted!! Go figure!😮

[@gloriarivera108]

When young people have not been brought up with moral values, they are more inclined to accept negative, often vile, language and platforms, which in our history leads to violence. The parents themselves cannot recognize meaningless anger and lies about nothing substantial, instead of desiring living a peaceful, sane, joyous, prosperous life.

[@UGAPhoenix]

@@stephaniehampton3525 if you think a newborn child can be aborted, you need to have your brain checked.

[@marilyncole6638]

She's not aware of materials being handed out by students at Columbia while she is President?

[@joshuaday-ou1qv]

His next question should have been “ do you actually know anything about the school you are supposedly running “ ?? It’s absolutely disgraceful

[@GallowsPole805]

What the Fucx is a Folx???

[@cats.cant.contour8812]

Folks. A lazy attempt to make folks more "inclusive"... Which literally is an impossible because folks means everyone in general.

[@BlueManIan]

Another spelling of "folks"

[@AppalachianPatriot]

@@BlueManIanNo.

[@christopherperkins8948]

​@@AppalachianPatriot yes.

[@dkajj]

Don't beez axing the hard quessions. Mama ain't home, and daddy left fo da milk 4 years ago.

[@stefanlano6736]

The President of Columbia University would appear to be yet another DEI appointment. What a relief to know that Harvard is not alone.

[@forkoffgoogle]

She has no intention of stopping the distribution of that glossary at orientations, she'll have students hand it out instead so she can claim innocence.

[@Lomojo31]

She doesn't think it's "useful"?? Wow. Strong words. Eyeroll.

[@karlalbright2733]

And these students complain they can't earn enough money to pay off their student loans DAAA

[@davidstein1376]

I LOVE watching academic administrators wet their pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@beecnul8r]

The looked like the Orange Menace under oath!

[@robindavid9640]

How far have our once great Universities fallen! This is hard to watch.

[@somanraman1971]

That prof is dishonest. She has been shaken.

[@southerncaltattooedbiker3643]

Thank God my Grandchildren will never go to Columbia😠‼️

[@samdajellybeenie14]

They wouldn’t be able to get in anyway

[@southerncaltattooedbiker3643]

@@samdajellybeenie14 You don't know that maybe you should find someone else to fight with

[@larryneville1811]

On todays episode of as our toilet swirls.

[@biggmikemike]

Stuttering, shuffling papers, inappropriate giggling. She is cornered and flailing!😂

[@sabrinaafrinsimi6964]

"The nazis made me afraid of being Jewish and the zionists made me ashamed of being Jewish." - Israel Shahak #freepalestine #freedomofspeech #alllivesmatter

[@scottburns2600]

I don’t finna think she understands what he's axing her!

[@tucorameriz3538]

Either completely incompetent or really stupid, only 2 possible answers.

[@bogbel1]

She's a woke liberal, so of course she's both.

[@LisaEtter]

Some A and some B.

[@deepfriedokra]

Yes the Senator is one of those two things for sure for thinking an administrator can somehow micromanage everything students share with each other and implicitly must approve of every crackpot idea students come up with amongst themselves. He’s awful

[@BLA1NEK1NSEY]

@@deepfriedokra He is awful, but he is not a Senator.

[@scott9561]

Not really...there's a third possibility. She may well be obfuscating. After all, she telegraphs her - I could lose my job over this matter obfuscation with her nervous 'laughter'.

[@stevenbrady440]

I’ve seen multiple clips of this woman. Without exception she never answers questions directly.

[@marktonello3535]

Who in the hell is running this college? It appears that there are no adults in the room at Columbia University.

[@samstelly8815]

She's being disingenuous or in other words a liar.

[@alexandersupertramp7353]

Proof?

[@MrLala12321]

​@@alexandersupertramp7353 She isn't' familiar with the word but knows exactly where it comes from? Clearly a lie. Her point of it being a student initiative is fair but she clearly knows what the word is

[@alexandersupertramp7353]

@MrLala12321 She knows where it comes from because it's in the student handout. That doesn't mean she knows where the word comes from. And are you defending the LGBTQ+ people? I thought ya'll hated them

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

@@alexandersupertramp7353 She talks like a politician. That's all the proof u need. OH! and the fact she did nothing after the faculty informed her of it...which they said if you were paying attention.

[@mr.brightside6119]

So one of the most prestigious and liberal colleges in america is handing out discriminatory slur dictionaries with new racist words these days????😂😂😂 literally wtf.

[@norman_5623]

You don't seem to be able to follow the discussion. The students, not the college, were handing out the dictionary.

[@user-pi6lp6gg3j]

@@norman_5623 "The students, not the college, were handing out the dictionary." How do you know? The President says "I think it was distributed by students." What is your source?

[@dwbradley349]

Blame it on the students...LMAO! In other words she has no control over this institution. Sad!

[@theevermind]

I don't believe that they are against it being distributed. By having the students do it, it gives them plausible deniability, much like when the govt makes social media companies censor because the First Amendment makes it illegal for govt to do it.

[@JobberSteve]

There has to be oversight when federal funds are provided. I do not want another dollar of my tax money going towards these institutions or you're all fired!

[@danieladdled]

But if we cut off the funding for congress how would we get the hollow grandstanding the nation desperately needs?

[@sherrillsturm7240]

Oversight of what, exactly? What students produce to be seen by other students? That is precicely what is at issue here.

[@saintlybeginnings]

Stating “It’s a document created by the students for new students” is not an acceptable answer! The students responsible for creating the document should be easy to find and should be informed that such documents are not permitted; All documents that are handed out to incoming students (etc) must receive approval by Dean of Students

[@eriklarson2066]

Who sends their children to these hateful places?

[@JC-ok4yx]

She is going to "award" those students degrees who will then go out and write the literature that future students will be "educated" with. How hard is it to say, "That was unacceptable and inappropriate."

[@leonardbrewer9942]

And the school gets how much for a degree ? Its what normal people call a lack of leadership and Zero accountability or responsibility.

[@drew8570]

It wasn't produced by the school. You want it to be SO BADLY, but it isn't. Stop trying to make something out of nothing. You like line a typical Right-wing.

[@user-rn1sl9bt8s]

And nobody asked this college professor one question and that question is if it's handed out to every student that is entering into the your college and you didn't know nothing about it but the students did you are basically the guilty one and trying to blame the students for something they may or may not have wrote

[@BunnyQueen97]

They’re students, but they’re also grown adults. They’re responsible for what they publish.

[@MiracleFound]

Students have lives and an existence outside of school. They do things that the school does not sanction. Faculty do not have complete control over every move Students make.

[@John-zf6lb]

I want a similar handout given to students about black students related to slaves

[@johngraham2470]

Its is not a official product, but you are letting it distribute to the incoming students. Who the hell is she.

[@ron4255]

The faculty has nothing to do with it…. Ok then where are these students learning it and thinking its fine to hand out at orientation?

[@leguminous7564]

I mean it's an Ivy League school in NYC, the students being accepted are likely already liberal.

[@ron4255]

@@leguminous7564 that can explain where they learned it, social media, liberal hs, but the students who put together orientation are sophomores and above. Thinking its fine to hand out at orientation is on Columbia’s staff

[@leguminous7564]

@@ron4255 College admins will usually just take the side of the student body majority to keep the peace though. Because it's a liberal pamphlet, they didn't do much about it.

[@ron4255]

@@leguminous7564 i know. The costumer is always right. Especially when they agree with what they are doing

[@ron4255]

@@leguminous7564 i am just tired of watching all these people lie and pretend they have no idea what is happening. Its every hearing. From this one to the border, to the energy secretary to the nominated judges. Lie after lie. Nothing ever happens. Just a lecture on what they are doing is wrong or illegal. They leave the hearing and go right back to what they were doing that got them called in to testify in the first place.

[@The.Oracle.]

I can’t believe that Columbia University would publish this. It’s from some undesirable students.

[@bigredactionsportsstuff1245]

It sounds like Columbia didn’t produce it, it was just a silly student created document.

[@samdajellybeenie14]

@@bigredactionsportsstuff1245It obviously is created students. And she really should’ve said “I don’t know what you want me to say Congressman, I have far more important things to do over the course of the day than patrol campus and police student-created fliers.”

[@ayeletn.5107]

@@bigredactionsportsstuff1245 Then she could have put a stop to it after the first complaint she got.

[@norman_5623]

@@ayeletn.5107 This is America. She doesn't have any legal right to stop it.

[@Tj75822]

@@norman_5623Just like these left wing universities don’t have the right to stop conservative speakers on campus…but they do it all the time.

[@user-we2yt5on9b]

It seems that she is completely unaware of anything that is going on at Columbia.

[@judybridges8796]

It‘s THEIR JOB TO KNOW THESE THINGS. Pathetic.

[@user-zq5co3br4n]

Wow...lady is spineless

[@drew8570]

The person questioning is spineless. You wouldn't know what a spine is if it ran for office. Literally.

[@user-zq5co3br4n]

@@drew8570 yep, pitiful spineless response

[@Republican-00769]

*Anti-whiteism*

[@starrberri1]

Don't pull the race card😂😂😂

[@adcolt54]

"They" said nearly 10 years ago that they planned on fighting racism with racism.

[@wes11bravo]

Why on earth would it be permitted by the administration of Columbia for "guidelines" produced by students to be handed out to other students, no matter what the nature of its content?

[@debbiesmith5455]

This woman is absolutely TERRIBLE!!!

[@stevemt3238]

Folx is an LGBT term. This lying woman needs to go to jail.

[@soliniv1411]

Shes giggling about it 😂

[@damongraham1398]

Where is the lie?

[@scarlettdeadshotanti-b.s.3206]

Lol the lie is that she says she had no clue about any of this and yet by her response mannerisms and demeanor prove it all. Then asking the council if they knew about it and they stuttered answering a question they knew was coming.

[@catioicat727]

Is it? According to Webster the term has been around since the 1860s

[@RobTheSeer]

So if her lying puts her in jail, does Don the Con get put under the jail 😆

[@jeanpierre6975]

The last time I checked freedom of speech is necessary for political discourse!

[@hylanddilligaf6023]

Gibbidah Gibbidah Gibbidah Baddah Dat Dat!!!

[@katherineberger6329]

Yeah, but the Reshitters don't believe in freedom of speech, they believe in FORCING you to hear THEIR speech, and then muzzling you when you want to respond to their idiotic lies.

[@Lori-jw8lx]

Slang is for teenagers and inmature adults.

[@spiritual84]

@@Lori-jw8lx college students are generally teenagers and immature adults....

[@user-wm3bf7pi3u]

When your favorite flavor of chips is paint.... just go play with your toes.

[@suzankephart8461]

The university has a duty, a responsibility to know what is in the info given to students. This was never read by anyone in the staff beforehand?

[@joncoish]

It’s crazy how fast people go from hating groups of people to hating groups of people. The holocaust was really not that long ago, just before my parents were born, it happened during my grandparents lifetimes, yet are people forgetting? After WW2 people said never again, yet here we go again. I remember first learning about all of that in school and I’ve seen so many things about it since and it was shocking, but it’s almost like people are forgetting. Like they forget how the Germans got to the point where the holocaust happened. Crazy stuff to see, and very sad!

[@riverspirit7]

0:58 well, she abdicated her review and understanding responsibility of her position to collect her 300,000 salary... Thats how glass ceilings are really broken

[@marcellacole6132]

Being a former employee of the bd of education, this people are able to get resources for the children in yeshiva schools, which means the denial of minority children who are denied of the basic principles of their education and now the tables are turning into madnaess and war.😢

[@ellinooridashwood]

Wait, so because “this people” advocate for their children to receive resources, children from minority backgrounds are denied services? As someone whose worked with Early Intervention, in a state that provides services at not cost to children in need, this isn’t adding up. In fact, many parents of inner city public school students have turned down evaluations that would open their children to a plethora of services. Some cultures value educational resources, some do not.

[@madwhitehare3635]

Yep. If you're going to get married off at age nine who needs an education?

[@kl.1993]

@marcellacole6132 It further proves that the entire education system needs to be overhauled, when a self-described former employee of the Board of Education can neither spell correctly, nor write coherently.

[@ShipWreck68]

Thats called passing the buck. “Oh those kids who just beat up your jewish students…they were just kids from the neighborhood. So sorry i cant help.” Total BS

[@jonl.5967]

Seriously, who is running Columbia? The students or the Adults?

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

Yes, investigate and disclose who's paying for these documents to be distributed?

[@smyttor]

Based on what crime should this investigation take place?

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

@@smyttor The crime is misdirecting public funds toward special interest groups.

[@ayeletn.5107]

@@smyttor discrimination

[@norman_5623]

@@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259 If that were a crime, every congressman would be in prison.

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259]

@@norman_5623 There's merit to your argument assuming you're referring to the uniparty. In fact, the uniparty is guilty of a great many immoral acts.

[@sergiomiranda1497]

You voted for it you got it 😂.

[@johnped63]

She's an administrator?? That's scary. But not surprising.

[@Chris-bh3cm]

Weapons and/or SA's "aren't a product of the school." Apparently, it's ok as long as it's "by the students." She', and the rest of the faculty are well aware of the document and agree with it. They just have the students hand it out so the school can claim "plosable deniability."

[@tlindsay1007]

I wouldn't be surprised. The Wokesters always act as if the ends justify the means. They are so immoral.

[@AliciaGuitar]

*plausible

[@marilynwade9448]

My goodness.. she knows nothing. None of them know anything