Melanie Woodin

That is in no way, shape, or form covered by academic freedom.

And so when Melanie Woodin stands on a stage and says that she categorically reje-rejects academic boycott because it's antithetical to her principles, what she's doing is reacting to the past year of campaign, but also she's exploiting the fact that we-- that the, the...

Or what she's doing is she's covering the fact that U of T has deliberately accelerated its institutional partnerships in the past 20 years, not that she's protecting the individual freedom of her faculty.

Do you get the same kind of pushback at all f- on campus, or do you feel most people understand the importance of an academic boycott? Like, I'm talking the student body and the workers.

Like, just her being there, um, is an endorsement that U of T, A, signed off on it, B, gave them the space, and then, like, they brought their biggest shot, their president to come and, like, say she's honored.

She's so honored to be on the stage with all these bigots.

And, right, like, let's just, let's just say, let's just say that Melanie Woodin, like, turned off her brain and approved this conference without vetting any of the speakers.

Now that the event has happened, doesn't, like, this warrant a, some kind of apology or actually a condemnation of what happened, or does she think that what happened was okay, right? Like, were these remarks all acceptable? Like, this is normal, um, behavior on U of T campus? I feel like I'm getting a little bit worked up now, but, um, um-