American TV psychologist and personality Dr. Phil McGraw, known as Dr. Phil, appeared on Fox News alongside Sean Hannity on Wednesday to discuss double standards in antisemitism and calls for genocide on university campuses.
They discussed what should and should not be protected as free speech, sharing that much of the outcome of protests over the last two months has been far from peaceful activism.
"There are exceptions to free speech," he told Hannity. "You cannot incite people to violence, which they are doing. You cannot target someone with specific threats, which they are doing."
Thank you, @seanhannity, for having me on your show to discuss the double standards at @Harvard, @Penn, and other elite Universities when it comes to attacks against Jewish students and calls for Genocide on campus. pic.twitter.com/uIDx359sGB
— Dr. Phil (@DrPhil) December 13, 2023
He added that protestors are also getting in the way of students attending their classes. Not only are their paths to the actual classroom disrupted, but their classes are being disrupted as well.
"They are going into the library and intimidating these students," he told the Fox interviewer.
Dr. Phil commented that any institution of higher learning that allows such behavior to ensue without a technical "violation of policy" is "insane."
Dr. Phil's role in US culture
Having become one of the most well-known and trusted Christian TV personalities, Dr. Phil has once again condemned American universities, this time for becoming "liberal, woke hotbeds, fostering intellectual rather than critical thinking."Dr. Phil McGraw condemned the testimonies of the leaders of Harvard University, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania before Congress last week in which they exuded "sickening smugness" and "an arrogance and dismissiveness seldom seen in that forum" while they told Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York that calling for the genocide of Jews only violates their policies of bullying and harassment if said in the "proper context."
"To be 100% clear, using the dictionary definition of genocide, the question becomes, does calling for the deliberate killing of a large number of Jews with the aim of destroying the Jewish ethnic group and the nation of Israel violate your policy against bullying and harassment?" McGraw asked.
Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth of MIT "evaded" the question. Magill resigned over the weekend.
McGraw, who is also a mental health professional, is best known for his top-rated program, Dr. Phil, which ran for 21 years until May of this year. He filmed his video at the new Trinity Broadcasting Network studio in Dallas.