You mean the testimony compelled as part of that campaign? I wasn’t impressed with her performance but that circus was set up trying to create a gotcha situation where the same people who have spent decades telling us that all positions should be welcomed on campuses would portray anything less than a complete restriction on speech as the universities embracing antisemitism. The guy gunning for the Penn president had been waiting for years to get an opportunity like this.

Gay was trying to thread a line between the gotcha framing and what a legal free speech policy allows, and fumbled into the trap. Yes, she handled it poorly but that doesn’t excuse the successful campaign to create the situation which made it look worse than it actually was or the massive national media effort to make this the issue everyone is talking about rather than something important.

In the same vein, one would expect an idiot to misattribute the criticism of their aptitude and view it as a personal attack. Only an idiot would say the things Gay said in congress; only an idiot would interpret a critical take on her leadership abilities as racism or sexism.

Actually, that's exactly what they did. They were very open about it. Christopher Ruffo was very open about it. They wanted to get her fired for her Israel content, so they went hunting to find an excuse.