Trump cuts 400 Million in grants to Columbia over Antisemtism.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m Jewish and all for fighting against anti semitism, but trumps war isn’t on antisemitism. It’s on higher education. Dumb people are good for his voting bloc.

This!

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we giving private universities with huge endowments any money at all? Columbia’s endowment it 14.8 BILLION. 400 million is a drop in the bucket for them.

This!

Exactly. This won’t hurt Columbia

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Anonymous wrote:Why stop at Columbia? I’d be ok with ending all federal support for Ivy League schools. Let them draw down the endowments instead.

And let patients finance their own clinical trials

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why stop at Columbia? I’d be ok with ending all federal support for Ivy League schools. Let them draw down the endowments instead.

Exactly

I did not realize all the waste in federal spending. Thank you Elon

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Anonymous wrote:This will last about 15 minutes before it is overturned on First Amendment grounds, but maybe the pro Israel folks can take a half minute to reflect on how bad it looks that they are lining up to support someone whose playbook is looking surprisingly Hitleresque, and what this might mean for the long term support of your country?

As someone who married into the tribe, I can honestly say I don’t not care one bit if Israel seeks to exist tomorrow because I’m sick of them meddling in my country. And they only have themselves to blame.

Assume that this marriage is past tense.

Present. And my actively Jewish spouse is sick of their crap, too. We live in America and not Israel for a reason.

And she, like you, “doesn’t care if Israel [ceases] to exist”?

Strange sort of “actively Jewish” spouse you have.

+1. My in-laws are all Jewish in various degrees of observance. My spouse is not religious but still considers himself Jewish. And the general consensus is that Israel has the right (and the imperative!) to exist and to defend itself. And also that Netanyahu and the West Bank settlers do Israel no favors. But that Hamas/Iran/etc are to blame here.

The ratio of dead civilians on either side tells a different take. No one who kills twenty-five times more people than, as retribution, has the moral high ground.

What happened on Oct 7th what truly horrific. But Israel lost the moral high ground since. It's really sad, because they had all the free nations of the world on their side in the aftermath of Oct 7th, DESPITE oppressing the Palestinians for decades.

DP. Completely agree. It makes me sick. I’m not Jewish but I work in a facility that’s Jewish-faith based and have ILs in Israel. I hate what Israel is doing and feel like I can’t say anything. Thanks for saying out loud what I’ve been thinking for months now.

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Anonymous wrote:Why stop at Columbia? I’d be ok with ending all federal support for Ivy League schools. Let them draw down the endowments instead.

Exactly

I did not realize all the waste in federal spending. Thank you Elon

Brainwashed tool

The people who are really profiting from this love people like you.

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Anonymous wrote:So Jewish students at Columbia get shafted too? There’s a huge Jewish student population there.

Of course.

What, did you think this was about you?

So far Trump has gone after Columbia and USC. Do you think maybe these are the schools his kids didn’t get into? He seems like a petty man.

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Anonymous wrote:So Jewish students at Columbia get shafted too? There’s a huge Jewish student population there.

Of course.

What, did you think this was about you?

So far Trump has gone after Columbia and USC. Do you think maybe these are the schools his kids didn’t get into? He seems like a petty man.

These schools are very wealthy, they don’t need more money. They have an endowment.
Let’s use the money on poorer schools instead

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Anonymous wrote:So Jewish students at Columbia get shafted too? There’s a huge Jewish student population there.

Of course.

What, did you think this was about you?

So far Trump has gone after Columbia and USC. Do you think maybe these are the schools his kids didn’t get into? He seems like a petty man.

These schools are very wealthy, they don’t need more money. They have an endowment.
Let’s use the money on poorer schools instead

+1 yes!

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we giving private universities with huge endowments any money at all? Columbia’s endowment it 14.8 BILLION. 400 million is a drop in the bucket for them.

This!

Exactly. This won’t hurt Columbia

I can assure you that Columbia will complain of a budget shortfall and start cutting student programs. Malicious compliance.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we giving private universities with huge endowments any money at all? Columbia’s endowment it 14.8 BILLION. 400 million is a drop in the bucket for them.

Do you really not understand what grants to the universities fund and are for? Do you really not understand what the government and the country gets out of those grants?

Do you think these are grants to build fancy dorms and dining halls?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we giving private universities with huge endowments any money at all? Columbia’s endowment it 14.8 BILLION. 400 million is a drop in the bucket for them.

Do you really not understand what grants to the universities fund and are for? Do you really not understand what the government and the country gets out of those grants?

Do you think these are grants to build fancy dorms and dining halls?

Enlighten me, why is the government giving money to a wealthy school instead of a poor one?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Jewish students at Columbia get shafted too? There’s a huge Jewish student population there.

Of course.

What, did you think this was about you?

So far Trump has gone after Columbia and USC. Do you think maybe these are the schools his kids didn’t get into? He seems like a petty man.

I think it would be very enlightening to know where Barron Trump was rejected. Everything is personal with this family. So far, everything Trump does can be explained by vengeance, retribution, vanity, and greed. I would not be surprised at all if there is a Columbia denial at the root of this.

Of course it doesn't help that Columbia is a cartoon of progressive excess so it is a very easy target if you want to highlight far left extremism in academia. Going after Columbia does not hurt Trump politically at all. Masked students chanting "We are Hamas" and "Death to the Zionist State" are a PR nightmare for Columbia. Those student protesters were a gift to the Republican Party and it's not surprising at all that conservatives are going after Columbia.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Jewish students at Columbia get shafted too? There’s a huge Jewish student population there.

Of course.

What, did you think this was about you?

So far Trump has gone after Columbia and USC. Do you think maybe these are the schools his kids didn’t get into? He seems like a petty man.

I think it would be very enlightening to know where Barron Trump was rejected. Everything is personal with this family. So far, everything Trump does can be explained by vengeance, retribution, vanity, and greed. I would not be surprised at all if there is a Columbia denial at the root of this.

Of course it doesn't help that Columbia is a cartoon of progressive excess so it is a very easy target if you want to highlight far left extremism in academia. Going after Columbia does not hurt Trump politically at all. Masked students chanting "We are Hamas" and "Death to the Zionist State" are a PR nightmare for Columbia. Those student protesters were a gift to the Republican Party and it's not surprising at all that conservatives are going after Columbia.

I think a lot of them weren’t even students. Columbia has always been a magnet for weirdo outside agitators.

Anyway - while I agree that casual anti-semitism is far too prevalent, at the end of the day, there is no way this is good for the Jews.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we giving private universities with huge endowments any money at all? Columbia’s endowment it 14.8 BILLION. 400 million is a drop in the bucket for them.

Do you really not understand what grants to the universities fund and are for? Do you really not understand what the government and the country gets out of those grants?

Do you think these are grants to build fancy dorms and dining halls?

Enlighten me, why is the government giving money to a wealthy school instead of a poor one?

Federal grants mostly go towards science and research. There are about 60 R1 universities - PhD granting universities that do much of the science and research in the US. This is where new medicine and all sorts of research intensive work comes from. Tuition isn't covering a new treatment for colon cancer or Alzheimer's. That comes from federal research grants to R1 universities - like Columbia. Republicans unfortunately are choosing to destroy science and research in the US. And they sell their destruction by listing it as "government giving money to a wealthy school" as you put it. So those who are poorly informed tend to think of federal grants as nothing more than a scam by universities. They never seem to ask where does research actually come from?