While public figures of all political stripes weighed in en masse with the condemnations over the weekend in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and academic “leaders” told on themselves, administrators at higher education institutions have, so far, been mostly silent.
It’s something Steve McGuire, a conservative writer who tracks the goings on at our institutions of higher learning, made mention of on the Twitter/X machine Monday:
There have been a few, as McGuire and some of his followers pointed out, but they left quite a bit to be desired.
Among the few statements that were noted, they were strangely devoid of any well wishes for Trump. For instance, Arizona State University President Michael Crow seemed far more interested in protecting his school’s reputation than condemning the actual shooting (bolded emphasis his):
As social media promulgates the usual kind of unsubstantiated and ill-informed theories about the shooting of former President Trump, one post being circulated attempts to implicate Arizona State University. In response to all this nonsense, I would like to caution everyone once again about believing the things you read on social media. To be clear, the individual who attempted to assassinate former President Trump had no association with ASU and was not the person seen on a video on the ASU campus four years ago.
ASU concluded its investigation back in 2020, in conjunction with the FBI, and determined the subject in the video was not a credible threat – and that person has a different name and different date of birth than the suspect in the attempted assassination of former President Trump over the weekend.
Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz couldn’t even be bothered to mention Trump’s name or that someone tried to kill him. He merely referred to the shooting as “violence”:
West Chester University of PA President Lorraine Bernotsky seemed to take a jab at Trump himself in her statement – also without mentioning his name, and leaving out any prayers for a full recovery:
Now, in the aftermath of the massive backlash to how disgracefully some colleges and universities responded to the Oct. 7th Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, something some have called “institutional neutrality” has been implemented at some of these places, which effectively means no statements on political issues, social issues, and international issues related to politics and social causes.
But we all know that wouldn’t hold if the target had been Joe Biden and not Donald Trump:
“Situational neutrality” is indeed what this is. Bank on it.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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