Whether Radicalized Culture at U. Penn Influenced Luigi Mangione Needs To Be Looked Into
Mangione shouted out about “lived experience” as he was led into the courthouse, but his lived experience was one of privilege.
I appeared on the Laura Ingraham show tonight to talk about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, “allegedly” by Luigi Mangione, a graduate of U.Penn., and whether the radicalization of campuses can contribute to violence.
My portion came after Ingraham had a fairly long monologue about the murder, the cheerleading by college profs, particularly one U. Penn. professor who has tried to walk back her comments about how proud she was to teach at U. Penn. after learning of the murder.
Part of the monologue showed a clip of Mangione shouting about “lived experience” and we discused that.
(Partial Transcipt added, auto-generated, may contain transcription errors).
WAJ: It’s disgusting, but it’s not surprising. I’ve observed over the years, both at Cornell and elsewhere, a growing radicalization of the faculty—a growing attitude that activism as a faculty member is part of your teaching mission. You just quoted a couple of people who expressed that view. They view themselves as being there in order to ignite the students, in order to encourage the students to protest.
This has been building for a long time; it didn’t just happen. You’ve played some scenes from the anti-Israel protests on campuses, which have been, in many cases, very violent—a lot of violent rhetoric. Campuses are imbued with the concept that we will get what we want by any means necessary. That’s the common phrase that you hear.There’s a very radicalized culture. Whether it impacted him is something that needs to be looked into. We need to understand it.
Ingraham: well—just what happened to him, period. He did spend six years there. It’s not that much time; he graduated in 2016 from high school. So he was there when the cauldron was clearly brewing. But here’s what Senator Elizabeth Warren took away from all of this:
“Look, we’ll say it over and over—violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.”
They weren’t saying that on January 6. They never say that when a pro-life protester protests outside of an abortion clinic. They think it’s fine to arrest those people, as we see happening all over the Western world.
WAJ: How was it that he couldn’t be pushed any further? When you get somebody from that background—and a lot of domestic terrorists in our history have been from privileged backgrounds, like the Weather Underground people—if you’re going to have the Elizabeth Warren attitude that you’re entitled to do whatever you need to do by any means necessary because you’ve been pushed too far in your own lived experience, that’s a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, it’s a recipe that is prevalent on a lot of campuses.
Ingraham: Aren’t I right about this whole “lived experience” phrase that he shouted out while he was being escorted into the courthouse? That is the usual claptrap we hear at small group seminars at any Ivy League institution—or any institution today—justifying just about anything.
WAJ: Well, “lived experience” is the wording used when somebody can’t prove something, when they don’t have a real argument. It’s like, “Well, in my experience…”
Ingraham: Here’s a good example: “My truth.”
WAJ: There’s no objective reality. That’s the whole critical theory destruction of the academy, of education—that there’s no real truth. It’s just how I experience things and how I feel about things. That’s the prevalent ideology on campuses just about everywhere, but certainly at Penn, Cornell, Yale, and the so-called elite institutions.
How you feel is most important—not what the truth is. And when you hear a truth you don’t like, you get angry.
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No, it does not need to be looked into. The entire academy needs to be utterly destroyed and rebuilt. You first showed your colors when you dodged Barry’s birth certificate.
Oh BS. There was never anything wrong with Barry’s birth certificate.
Have you downloaded it from its official government site? There still is, and a complete Photoshop novice can figure it out in a matter of minutes.
Have you asked your state to require proof of eligibility before someone can be on the ballot? If not, is it really that important to you?
Running for apart? Are you kidding?
There’s a reason our forefathers thought it was so important
And look what a non US borne and Muslim raised traitor did to our country
It’s still there and there is nothing wrong with it. It’s completely consistent with being a scan of a genuine original. All claims that it’s a forgery are bullshit, lies propagated by cranks and charlatans like Joe Arpaio.
One needn’t be a computer whiz to see it’s a forgery. The document was supposedly TYPEWRITTEN in 1961. Any retired crime lab expert can tell within a minute that the spacing and character width etc could not possibly have been produced in 1961 using a single typewriter.
Obama may have been born in the USA, but this document is a crude forgery. We were also told Biden was sharp as can be.
Bullshit. You’re just a shameless liar. This is not the forged Killian memo, in Times New Roman with superscripts and kerning. The certificate is in a monospace typeface produced by an ordinary manual typewriter.
Watch it and weep.
https://x.com/SCMountainGoat/status/1848549757062623737
And if you’re not conversant in Adobe tools, tell us that ahead of time to squelch the noise.
I have carefully studied a 22 page forensic report tearing
apart this crude forgery. You just spread red propaganda and name call.
Henry, this is just the old “layers” bullshit again. Take any document at all, scan it with OCR on, turn it into a PDF, and optimize, and you will see exactly the same thing. This is normal.
As for Howard, his “22-page forensic report” is probably Arpaio’s pack of lies, which is not worth the bother of even dealing with. Arpaio is a fraud, always has been.
Especially since Photoshop didn’t exist in 1962 and any document from back then would have scanned in as a flat picture
Which is exactly what happened.
Ok
Barry
another red diaper doper baby
We need Christianity brought back into all aspects of society, to restore our moral foundation.
The lack of God in his manifesto indicates a narcissistic view.
He was not a red diaper baby, at least as far as anyone knows. His family seems to be more on the conservative side.
HIs family is fairly conservative and your right. There is no evidence his family had anything to do with this by his upbringing. It appears to have been influenced by his education at UPenn and a failed back surgery or something.
Yes, Millhouse can be a PIA but this time he is right, why the downvotes? Luigi isn’t representative of his conservative family.
I don’t know if you had a chance to peruse any of his social media before it was all deleted. But, prior to 2023, he had MANY posts discussing the problems with a post-religious America and how the declining birth rate can’t be fixed with immigration and instead, the culture in the country has to change to celebrate childbirth. This is not the rhetoric of a ‘red diaper baby.’ It was clear that he was a reasonably conservative – or maybe traditional is a better word – young man…and then his posts began to be more…odd.
His family are also GOP donors with his cousin being a GOP state representative.
Our foundation was a Judeo-Christian one – and that is what is in need of restoration.
We really shouldn’t repeat the killer’s name very often, he wants fame. We shouldn’t give it to him. I dub him loogie
I want to hear his name along with the phrase “death penalty”.
Hearing him use the phrase “lived experience” helped my decision process as to what this fellow’s politics are deep down. No doubt the rest will trickle out eventually, unless the FBI goes all Audrey Hale on us again.
UPenn….where have I heard that before. Oh, yeah. That is where China donated over $60,000,000 for Biden’s library or something and where Biden had some of the classified documents he removed as Senator and VP.
Biden’s version of the unsecured email server in the closet of an apartment somewhere: plausible deniability.
“Gosh, whodathunk some nefarious characters could gain access to al that classified info?! I specifically told everyone to stay out of that stuff located at xxxxx”
So, we are all malleable lumps of putty who must be kept from the wrong influences lest we become murderers. How about he was just born bad?
The susceptibility of large masses of people to propaganda is a crucial flaw in the human genome. Biden gets into power and the country goes wild for DEI, transitioning, white fragility, and arson parties; while bedrock American values like color blindness and merit become anathema. Trump isn’t even inaugurated yet, and already those tents are starting to fold up and the circus is preparing to leave town. Is this consistent with a world in which human beings have constant bedrock values, or is it a testament to the malleability of the psyche and the effectiveness of brainwashing?
To be fair, this was the result of long running projects, bearing fruit.
I think the professor’s use of ‘radicalized’ is a good one. This kid, who’s clearly extremely intelligent, came from a family of means that has a long history of supporting the Church in Maryland. As this detailed article points out…
https://dallasexpress.com/crime/luigi-mangiones-complicated-world-view/
…for most of his formative years, he was a fan notable writers like Huxley and would quote scripture and wrote extensively about the promise of Christianity and its beneficial impact on virtue as well as the futility of atheism and wrote these things as far back as high school. Then he went to Penn. His writing became more disjointed, evoking notions embraced secular humanists. By 2024, roughly 6-months after his back injury, he began to favorably mention Ted Kaczynski and even wrote a book review of that manifesto. This is what college, particularly the Ivy League, does to kids.
The reason he chose to murder is relevant. How he came to that mind set is relevant. What classes did he take in college? What Professors and Grad Students were his teachers? What did those teachers espouse? Was it just information to pass the course and educate? Or was it liberal/Marxist ideology masked as teaching? As someone who worked in the medical field for over 40 years I can tell you that yes, people have surgeries that fail. And yes they can become addicted to medication. However, in all that time I never once remember anyone murdering a CEO of an insurance company over it. So to find the motivation start with the answers to the questions above.
While the attack on an insurance company executive may be novel, attacks on physicians for surgeries and other care gone wrong (real or perceived) is not novel. That’s been going on for decades and it’s become appreciably worse in recent years. My wife’s an ER doc in a large, urban hospital and the difference in security at her hospital compared to a decade ago is…substantial. Patient violence has become a real problem, inside the hospital and increasingly outside (usually just outside) the hospital.
I get it. I had to go through a rigorous security clearance at multiple hospitals and hospital chains to work with Doctors in the OR. I was trying to make the point about how and why he became radicalized.
When I heard his catch phrase I think you should find out what his mental health connections are. The phrase lived experience is a huge thing we use in mental health peer work. They have been using funding in NYS meant for teaching people about recovery and rights to literally radicalize them against Trump, conservatives, anything they label as big anything, and turning them into LGBTQ people. I worked in this field for 30 years and all of a sudden just about all the NYS Certified Peer Specialist I knew are now in transition. never seen anything like it in my life. They know just how easy it is to manipulate this population. Someone from the federal level needs to audit these agencies and they will find they spent a lot more than was legal just on the 2024 election. All there propaganda they put out was telling people negatives about the insurance industry and how we would die if Trump was elected because he is in their pockets. Go incognito to their training classes and you will here a lot more of this.
Live experience and my truth.
BS indicators peaking into the red.
You’d think someone who couldn’t even get a word in on college campuses would be more sensitive to the idea of thought policing universities, but the shoe does look good on the other foot doesn’t it?
Blaming admittedly crackpot professor’s peddling communism for this murder is not at all different from conservative intellectuals getting blamed for Charleston and the like. What ever happened to good ideas being the natural predators of bad ones? You need more speech, not less.
Didn’t intend to reply but what’s done is done lol
What works in the global neighborhood does not work in the POW camp. When discourse is intentionally stacked all on one side, more speech simply equates to more browbeating. You cannot console a lobster in a cookpot by quoting him the average neighborhood temperature from the Weather Channel.
He is responsible for his actions. If legally guilty of premed murder, then life or preferably cap punishment. Also if guilty, he needs to repent of his sins. Of course,
mal-education needs to be addressed and certainly not publicly funded
I think he had a schizophrenic break.
Two things can be true at the same time. He can be guilty of murder, AND United Healthcare can be a ruthless and corrupt company. And if both are true, it wouldn’t require some kind of indoctrination for the latter to lead to the former.
I stick by my assessment nearly a year ago. Big Education needs Big Oversight.
If there are colleges and universities that are engaged in political activities, then the IRS needs to revoke their status as a charity under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3).
Our colleges and universities enjoy tremendous income, property tax, and sales tax exemptions. Over the years many of these schools (faculties) have come to believe that they are above the law because they are never held accountable.
He going to sell his story to netflix like the menendez brothers?
I took a look at the imaging of the four screws in someone’s spine, supposedly Luigi Mangione’s. I don’t know for sure yet that it is his, but say it is. The argument is being built, in the press and largely by his attorney(s), that he has spondolylisthesis, a very painful spine condition. Look it up. The story being woven is that he had a surgical procedure and that is robbed him of the ability to have normal activities, including sex. So they’re planting a “sex excuse” already. I only relay this because this is already jury-shopping for sympathy, I think for what you legal types call “nullification”? Either way, the spondolylisthesis can cause pressure on a nerve branch called the “cauda equina” at the base of the spinal cord, which in turn affects genitourinary and lower abdominal organ function including colon function. So that’s the case the attorney(s) are building in the media for nullification (again, you know better than me), I believe. Medical moment over.
Sorry, spellcheck—that is spondylolisthesis. It’s damned hard to get this iPad to stop changing it!
Funny, his “condition” didn’t prevent him from running around town, shooting a man and posing for the cameras.
New York State should reinstate capital punishment for this guy.