NYU Professor Seeking ‘Forgiveness And Grace’ After Calling For Harsher Lockdowns & Vaccine Mandates, “We Were Doing Our Best”

In an episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” NYU professor Scott Galloway asked for forgiveness and grace after calling for harsher lockdown policies during COVID hysteria.

Galloway, who sat alongside former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, said he was “wrong” for pushing such authoritarian policies.

“I was on the board of my kids’ school during COVID. I wanted a harsher lockdown policy. In retrospect, I was wrong. The damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer was greater than the risk,” Galloway said.

“But here’s the bottom line. Myself. Our great people at the CDC. I’d like to thank the governor. We were all operating with imperfect information and we were doing our best,” he added.

“But let’s learn from it. Let’s hold each other accountable, but let’s bring a little bit of grace and forgiveness in the s*** show that was COVID,” he continued.

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"I was on the board of my kids' school during COVID. I wanted a harsher lockdown policy. In retrospect: I was wrong. The damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer was greater than the risk. But here's the bottom line: We were doing our best. But let's give a little… pic.twitter.com/8Vt2NujNKl

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) October 28, 2023

Social media users criticized Galloway for the lack of ‘forgiveness and grace’ given to individuals who questioned the COVID-19 narrative.

Those who resisted COVID propaganda faced discrimination, segregation, ridicule, and ostracization from lockdown and vaccine mandate proponents like Galloway.

Many people commented that accountability must come first, and we must never forget the treatment unleashed by the COVID cult.

Accountability and justice first. Then you can ask for "grace and forgiveness." pic.twitter.com/sjbIsvRxEN

— Dave Adams (@DaveAda07276747) October 28, 2023

No, we need to never forget that. It doesn’t matter that you’re now saying you were doing your best. You let your fear grip you and you lectured everyone by your fear.
Some of us tried to tell you, and you ridiculed us.

— RasterEyes (@AgentRaster) October 28, 2023

You cannot extend grace to these people because you know who they are now and what they’re willing to do to you out of irrational fear and uncertainty.

A society interested in self preservation would permanently revoke their political power. https://t.co/bZPA9GoD9T

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) October 28, 2023

If they made those mistakes with grace, then grace they should receive. However, those who questioned their narrative were publicly shamed, lambasted, fired from jobs, censored, banned from communication platforms, and harassed by the government. AND don’t forget, Cuomo’s… https://t.co/UcZsnSpGeL

— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) October 28, 2023

One social media user noted Galloway’s remarks during the height of COVID hysteria.

“Half of America has its head up its a**. It’s time for a vaccine mandate,” Galloway wrote in August 2021.

SCOTT GALLOWAY (Aug 2021): You anti-vaxxers have your head up your ass if you aren't willing to take this emergency-use-authorized COVID shot. It's time to force you to take it via mandate.

SCOTT GALLOWAY (Oct 2023): Look, we were only doing our best. How about a little grace &… https://t.co/nPqJBsDLYV pic.twitter.com/L1MjTdXeDG

— Don Wolt (@tlowdon) October 28, 2023

Galloway wrote in 2021 via Insider:

I was planning on writing about edtech startups and Section4. However, I can’t focus on anything but my disappointment — disdain really — in the lack of leadership at a federal level (Biden) and the voluntary manslaughter at a state level (DeSantis).

Between 1964 and 1973, we ordered 2.2 million young men to go to Southeast Asia, pick up a gun, run into the jungle, and start shooting. Those who rejected their country’s call to service either faced imprisonment or fled to Canada (and faced imprisonment upon return).

Things have changed since Vietnam. Today, serving on the frontlines is not only statistically guaranteed to save lives, it’s also somewhat easier: You walk into your local CVS. And unlike staring down the barrel of an M14, it doesn’t kill you. But the US call to service has changed a lot since then, too. We no longer demand you do what’s right for your country — instead, we cajole … beg, even.

Enough already. Federal law should require any citizen who wants to cash a government check, use public transport, or enter a place of business to show proof of vaccination. I published the following post when we’d lost 300,000 Americans. Nine months later, we have a vaccine … and 613,000 deaths. The world suffers from a dearth of shots. America suffers from dysfunction.

Those who pushed the COVID-19 agenda down the throats of individuals who questioned the lies want amnesty, forgiveness, and grace.

They want to forget and move on from the disgusting human rights abuses.

They want to memory hole severed relationships, ruined careers, mental and physical health breakdowns, and medical apartheid.

Many people refuse to forget and reject amnesty.

They want justice for crimes against humanity.

Forgive and forget or Nuremberg2.0

— worldofpain75🐭 (@trueblood777111) October 28, 2023

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— 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝕏 ✝️🇺🇲🌲☕️📰⚾️ (@normposter) October 29, 2023

No.

There is no grace and forgiveness.

We were stopped from seeing our elderly relatives in care homes. Stopped from attending funerals. Stopped from sending our kids to school. Stopped from travelling and eating out.

— Miss Jo (@therealmissjo) October 28, 2023

He would do it again in a heartbeat on anything else he thought was for the "greater good".

Never, ever trust these people.

— Samuel Culper 722 (@politiwars) October 28, 2023

Kick rocks, pound sand, and stub your toe on every table you cross.

You and your sycophants were warned and told and you used the power of the media and midwits to call everyone warning you an "Extremist" or "Grandma Killer"

— Malcolm FleX (@Malcolm_fleX48) October 30, 2023