Socialist Ivy League prof delivers disgusting message by calling alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione an icon

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s allegedly premier Ivy League colleges, took a break from her job the other day to praise Luigi Mangione.Dr.Julia Alekseyeva, who describes herself as a “socialist and ardent antifascist” and goes by the social media handle “@thesoviette,” went on TikTok and said she was never prouder to work at the same school that graduated the 26-year-old suspected murderer of UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson.The song “Do You Hear The People Sing?” from “Les Miserables” was the backdrop of her creepy missive, real “workers of the world unite” material.

Later in a separate social media post, the good doctor (of God knows what) referred to Mangione as an “icon.”The twisted message of all this is pretty apparent: Wasting Thompson is just swell because it fits a certain social justice narrative.People who fit the left’s definition of a greedy capitalist deserve to die.If you’re wondering what pedagogy like that accomplishes, consider this: UPenn was one of the hotbeds of Jew-hating in the aftermath of the Oct.

7 Hamas massacre.Its administrators’ indifference to the wild celebrations led to the forced resignation of its president, Liz Magill.Alekseyeva, who has since apologized, didn’t respond to a request for comment; a rep for Penn tells The Post her comments “were antithetical to the values” of the university, and that Alekseyeva has “retracted them.”Better late than never, of course.

But I am a finance writer.So I started asking my Wall Street sources, how can a school afford the luxury of employing wackos who would go there in the first place?Penn charges its undergraduate students more than $85,000 a year to be brainwashed with leftism, and according to my Wall Street sources who follow the college finance racket, bloated tuition bills still aren’t enough to make ends meet. That’s where the school’s multibillion-dollar endowments come in.Indoctrination fundi...