A University of Pennsylvania professor is being criticized 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 Monday and charged with murder for the Dec. 4 slaying.
Assistant Professor of English and Film and Media Studies Julia Alekseyeva, who in turn described herself as a ‘socialist and staunch anti-fascist’ websitemade several posts embracing Mangione.
In a now-deleted TikTok, Alekseyeva laughs as the Les Miserables song “Do You Hear the People Sing?” played.
“I have never been more proud 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 about Mangione’s sexuality. “The icon we all need and deserve,” she said.
Critics criticized Alekseeva for the unsavory messages 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 dead outside a New York City hotel on December 4
“She’s happy that an unbalanced 26-year-old just cowardly murdered a family man and threw away his own life 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 should be 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 professor of social work at Columbia and Adelphi University, suggested that people should not mourn Thompson’s death.
“Today we mourn the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shot… wait, I’m sorry – today we mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who die needlessly every year to make insurance company executives like Brian Thompson multi-millionaires,” said he.
Furious commentators called out Zenkus for brushing off the gruesome murder of the father-of-two and blaming him for the deaths of others.
‘This is incredibly insensitive. He is a father who was shot in the street. Have some compassion and humanity,” one person said.
‘For heartless hypocrites like you, it doesn’t matter that he had a wife and two children, as long as you can exploit a murder for the cause of your proletariat. Perhaps he was doing his best to prevent unnecessary deaths. You don’t know and you don’t care,” said another.
UPenn alumni Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested Monday and charged with murder over the Dec. 4 slaying
Mangione was taken into custody Monday afternoon on gun charges at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after he allegedly shot and killed 50-year-old UnitedHealthcare CEO Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel.
A friend of the accused gunman told DailyMail.com that Mangione was “anti-woke” and that he expressed deep envy for Britain’s nationalized healthcare system.
Gurwinder Bhogal, a British writer, said: ‘He was left on some things and right on others. For example, he was pro-equal opportunity, but anti-woke: for example, anti-DEI (and ) anti-identity politics.
“He was against wokeism because he didn’t believe it was an effective way to help minorities.
“He showed an interest in more rational, evidence-based forms of compassion, such as effective altruism.”
“We briefly touched on the differences between the British and American healthcare systems,” Bhogal added.
‘Luigi complained about how expensive healthcare was in the US, and expressed envy at Britain’s nationalized healthcare system.’