Rutgers University professor and Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence Roxane Gay called for the release of Luigi Mangione, who pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges resulting in death in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, during a Harvard panel Wednesday examining fatness and healthcare.When the discussion turned to the health insurance industry, Gay responded, "Free Luigi, for one," and then Gay went on to call the health insurance industry "equal opportunity evil," The College Fix reported.In a Wednesday post on X from Stu Smith, an investigative analyst at the Manhattan Institute, Smith wrote, "At tonight’s Harvard Medical School event, artist-in-residence Roxane Gay responded to a question about the health insurance industry with ‘Free Luigi.’"HASAN PIKER SPARKS BACKLASH WITH LUIGI MANGIONE REMARKS, CLAIMS SLAIN CEO ENGAGED IN 'SOCIAL MURDER'Image of Harvard Medical School building.(Brian Snyder/Reuters)Smith continued, "Minutes earlier, Gay admitted she uses concierge medicine after deciding to ‘throw money at this problem’ and ‘buy my way out’ of ordinary healthcare.
Gay, incidentally, is former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s first cousin.We all know Harvard is morally bankrupt at this point, but this was a great reminder."Gay made the remarks during the Harvard Medical School's "Against the Pathology of Unruly Bodies" event, which focused on what organizers described as the "intersection of fatness and healthcare" and how medical professionals treat overweight patients.The event also examined, according to a listing advertising the event, "the way fat bodies are pathologized by medical professionals with grave consequences, and how medical professionals can more ethically treat fat patients as people rather than as problems to be solved."Gay holds the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers and is listed as an artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical...