A University of Pennsylvania Professor is being slammed for sharing social media posts celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the school’s connection to the crime.
Alumni Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on Monday and charged with murder for the December 4 slaying.
Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies Julia Alekseyeva, who described herself as a ‘socialist and ardent antifascist’ on her website, made several posts embracing Mangione.
In a since-deleted TikTok, Alekseyeva is smiling as the Les Miserables song ‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ played.
‘Have never been prouder to be a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,’ she captioned the post, replacing the ‘E’ in Pennsylvania with the number 3.
UPenn graduate Eyal Yakoby also shared a screenshot of the English professor’s Instagram Story speculating on Mangione’s sexuality. ‘The icon we all need and deserve,’ she said.
Critics blasted Alekseyeva for the distasteful posts and demanded accountability from the school.
University of Pennsylvania Professor Julia Alekseyeva (pictured) celebrated the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the school’s connection to the crime
Father-of-two Brian Thompson, 50, was shot and killed outside a New York City hotel on December 4
‘She is happy some unbalanced 26-year-old just killed a family man in a cowardly way, and threw his own life away at the same time. There are no winners here. Blue hair dye is toxic to the brain,’ one person said.
‘This behavior is absolutely disgusting,’ said another. ‘This woman needs fired and shunned,’ a third person said.
Last week, Columbia University professor Anthony Zenkus sparked outrage with his distasteful response to Thompson’s murder.
Zenkus, a social work professor at Columbia and Adelphi University, implied people should not mourn Thompson’s death.
‘Today, we mourn the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, gunned down…. wait, I’m sorry – today we mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires,’ he said.
Furious commenters called out Zenkus for brushing off the father-of-two’s heinous murder and blaming him for the deaths of others.
‘This is incredibly insensitive. He’s a father gunned down on the street. Have some compassion and humanity,’ one person said.
‘It just doesn’t matter to heartless hypocrites like you that he had a wife and two kids, as long as you get to exploit a murder in the cause of your proletariat. Maybe he was working to prevent needless deaths. You don’t know & don’t care,’ said another.
UPenn alumni Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested on Monday and charged with murder for the December 4 slaying
Mangione was taken into custody on firearm charges Monday afternoon at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Thompson, 50, outside of a Manhattan hotel.
A friend of the accused shooter told DailyMail.com Mangione was ‘anti-woke’, and that he expressed a deep envy for the UK’s nationalized health system.
Gurwinder Bhogal, a UK-based writer, said: ‘He was left-wing on some things and right-wing on others, for instance, he was pro-equality of opportunity, but anti-woke: for example anti-DEI (and) anti-identity politics.
‘He opposed woke-ism because he didn’t believe it was an effective way to help minorities.
‘He expressed interest in more rational, evidence-based forms of compassion, like effective altruism.’
‘We briefly touched on the differences between the UK and US healthcare systems,’ Bhogal added.
‘Luigi complained about how expensive healthcare in the US was, and expressed envy at the UK’s nationalized health system.’
