Firing someone for plagiarism is not a take down. Also, firing someone for refusing to acknowledge that explicitly calling for genocide using those words is wrong and violates a code of conduct, well, that's not a take down either. Explicitly advocating genocide should be an expulsion from the institution.

Those so-called "Ivy League" university presidents could have acknowledged that explicitly advocating genocide violates the code of conduct, but then asserted that none of the pro-terrorist radicals in their institutions were actually calling for genocide. But those university presidents did not take this course of action. They defended the indefensible: Explicitly calling for genocide.

And as we all know, rarely before actual genocides does any genocidal leader or public messaging explicitly call for genocide or killing all of an ethnic group. Usually it's couched in dog whistle language. So, that would be the push back against university presidents arguing that pro-terrorist radicals aren't calling for genocide, but at least then we'd be at a more mature point in the debate.