Will there be fewer applicants to Harvard, Penn, MIT next year?

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People want some speech limited but not others.

Attacks on muslims are okay (the only people actually hurt in America since 10/7 are Muslims).

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It should be fewer by way of stop letting in complete idiots whose only qualification is being the fastest out of their dad and are complete idiots of the Dubya/Kushner variety

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. Try again

This^.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh. There will be no drop off in applications. Except for a tiny minority of parents, nobody will discourage their children from attending or applying to Harvard etc because of this - fewer people care about Israel than many would like to admit. Their multibillion endowments will not miss a beat.

What happened in Israel is horrific, but the Israeli response has been equally awful (if not worse). These places are not toxic for not automatically supporting Israel. Sorry but Jewish people do not deserve any more sympathy than others.

Agree.

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The president of MIT is Jewish, but of course she's an anti-semite https://news.mit.edu/2023/president-kornbluth-opening-statement-us-house-committee-1206

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Ppl are way too shallow. Minimal if any difference. Some may think they can game the system

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Anonymous wrote:People want some speech limited but not others.

Attacks on muslims are okay (the only people actually hurt in America since 10/7 are Muslims).

Exactly. Six year old Palestinian boy stabbed to death in Illinois, 3 Palestinian students shot in Vermont, Muslim doctor in Texas stabbed to death. Yet, it’s pro-Israel folks who keep talking about how unsafe they feel. Ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:People want some speech limited but not others.

Attacks on muslims are okay (the only people actually hurt in America since 10/7 are Muslims).

Exactly. Six year old Palestinian boy stabbed to death in Illinois, 3 Palestinian students shot in Vermont, Muslim doctor in Texas stabbed to death. Yet, it’s pro-Israel folks who keep talking about how unsafe they feel. Ridiculous.

Completely agree.

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Do these powerful wealthy donors want affirmative action for Jewish students

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Anonymous wrote:Probably more than ever! So many people proud of these schools for the excellent way they have handled free speech on a very tough subject! Go MIT PENN HARVARD!!!!

+100 and not caving to money bribes (donations)

I will just repost what I posted earlier in response:
You obviously don't understand what free speech actually means. You should read the definition then listen to what was said. Calls for genocide of an ethnic group is not protected speech. Saying you hate an ethnic group is protected. Telling people to kill them is not.

But wasn't it that the question first conflated "intifada" with "genocide" which intifada doesn't mean--it means uprising. Just like claiming that the phrase the "river to the sea" doesn't mean that the students are calling for genocide from the river to the sea. That's why these were "gotcha" question because the presidents are responding to a moments-earlier conflation, while the immediate question is about a hypothetical situation where the students actually called for genocide. I think the presidents didn't perform great because they should have known better about the aims of who they were dealing with and that you have to expect that want matters is the 10 second clip, not the 30 second clip.

All three should have been able to handle that situation and in fact should have expected it. They obviously walked into the hearing without sufficient preparation and with a good deal of arrogance. I think they expected the fawning that is probably their day-to-day experience.

Cue the VAR. Anyone watching more than a few seconds of the hearing has moved on.

DP. Not me. The presidents handled the testimony badly. No way around that.

+1. I stopped my harvard donations.

Why give money to Harvard in the first place? They don’t need any money

Those schools are so well-endowed that they will not miss your donation at all.

College Presidents, even at Ivies, are measured by their ability to raise money. They will also miss the businesses that stop coming to interview and give internships to their students.

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I am interested to know if Jews will stop applying. But I doubt it.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate to be that person, but I went to MIT and have some amazing Jewish friends from that experience. I had zero time for bullsh&t at MIT. The average student was drowning. At no time did I witness or see any type of racism on campus.

That’s nice. But MIT may be in the biggest trouble, because they admitted that they did not follow through with discipline for students violating school rules because they might face visa issues. The biggest legal issue these schools face isn’t based on the 1st Amendment, but rather Civil Rights Act Title VI disparate treatment. If nothing else, the President should be fired for being stupid enough to put something like that in writing. I think the decision itself should be a firing offense, but who is dumb enough to admit it?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/mit-walks-back-threat-suspend-pro-palestinian-students-due-visa-issues

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Anonymous wrote:People want some speech limited but not others.

Attacks on muslims are okay (the only people actually hurt in America since 10/7 are Muslims).

You can’t be serious? I started to list some of the examples of violence against Jewish people in the U.S. since 10/7, but I realized that you don’t want to be confused with facts.

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Anonymous wrote:People want some speech limited but not others.

Attacks on muslims are okay (the only people actually hurt in America since 10/7 are Muslims).

A Jewish man at a protest in LA was killed by a one-time Muslim professor.

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The Harvard president will resign. She’s toast and now no one trusts the decision to hire her.