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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So dumb.  “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue”’

The government isn’t saying that.  No one is forcing Harvard to do anything.  They have a billion dollar endowment and can do as they please.

What they can’t do is foster an educational atmosphere of harassment and expect the taxpayers to finance it.[/quote]

Sounds like you skipped the letter with the Trump admin’s demands.  In the second link.[/quote]

I literally quoted from the article.

No one is forcing Harvard to do anything.

Harvard is throwing a hissy fit because it wants to do certain things AND get taxpayer funds.

Doesn’t work like that.[/quote]

There are many concerns with the demands, but here are three:

-Harvard is being told they have to end recognition of student orgs merely accused of things, not proven to have done those things. Many of the allegations have been disputed.

[b]-Affirmative action and DEI aren’t the same. DEI can still play a role in ensuring no discrimination, but they are being told even that is not allowed. [/b]

- Most seriously, Harvard employees and students would be immediately evaluated for “viewpoint diversity. ” If not satisfying the gov, future hires and admits would need to reach whatever level of parity the gov sees fit. Viewpoint diversity is a subjective assessment, and easily corrupted to disallow academic criticism of public policy. That would remove yet another “check,” as the politicians studied by academics would now control the hiring of those asking the questions, not unlike what just happened with the WH press corps.

Can the gov withhold Harvard funding if their demands aren’t met? Possibly, but that doesn’t make it right, as the courts exist to determine compliance with the law, not to tell us what laws we should have. Much of this hasn’t been attempted before in this country, so at least some of the relevant laws are vague. If they do pull it off, why would the top researchers and students in the world stay when they are in high demand by countries not policing thought?[/quote]

Ridiculous DEI policies resulted in Harvard hiring a fake Indian as a law professor & a serial plagiarist as president. Hard to see why DEI is something they think is worth fighting for. [/quote]

I think you missed the point. They can drop AA without dropping the entirety of DEI. The latter is a superset.

What’s funny though is the gov is demanding an even more subjective form of DEI [b]run by themselves[/b] and calling it “viewpoint diversity.” [/quote]

That is hands down the funniest part of this. Replacing "Diversity Equity Inclusion" with "Viewpoint Diversity" and all enforced by constant surveillance of everything said by anyone affiliated with the school.[/quote]

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