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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s extortion. No previous White House has ever tried to use the power of the state to steer the nation’s preeminent institutions of higher learning in an ideological direction favored by the president.

“U.S. research universities, and the federal funding that supports them, are one major reason Americans have collected more Nobel Prizes than citizens of any other country. They also help make the United States the world’s innovation engine and the top destination for foreign students. No other country is as adept at converting raw human talent and ideas into cutting-edge products. Research universities anchor innovation clusters such as Silicon Valley, which in turn fuel the country’s economic growth.”

Nearly a month ago, for example, Columbia University agreed to most of the White House’s demands in the hopes that Trump and his team would restore $400 million in federal funding. Not only were those hopes soon dashed — Columbia didn’t get its money back — but the administration soon after proposed installing oversight personnel to help run the school in ways that would make the president happy.

In effect, the White House responded to Columbia’s appeasement by trying in part to take over Columbia.

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People cheering for this are puppets.  It’s the beginning of a fascist regime.  They want to control all of the elite universities so there are no alternative ideas or push back. Much like firing all the IGs. [/quote]

Obama sent letters threatening universities to install DEI or lose funding. Full compliance. [/quote]

It is the government's responsibility to uphold civil rights and non-discrimination laws. Call it "control" if you want - but it's controlling fairness.
The Trump administration's demands work against civil rights and are controlling ideology they agree with and eliminating opposing views. That is not appropriate government "control."
It isn't federal regulations or government policies that are to blame if students with more conservative views don't feel comfortable expressing those views on their campus, or similarly employees in a company. That's the result of the school and the company's chosen practices.
Is Trump going after Liberty University for being too conservative or too Christian?[/quote]

Trump administration is demanding as one of several conditions that Harvard stop discriminating against Asians and Harvard said no. Very simple. [/quote]

No, the letter is saying a bunch more. If that’s all the letter said it would be a normal case of “no we didn’t” vs “yes you did” settled in court. The letter wants a bunch of crazy stuff, the most outrageous being the idea the gov gets to oversee hiring and admissions to comply with ideological diversity as they see fit.

The problem isn’t the idea of ideological diversity, which is wonderful. The problem is the gov shouldn’t police thought in academia. [/quote]

Very simple. Then stop being discriminatory against Asians. [/quote]

Honestly you can ignore this guy/gal.

Did some Asians vote for Trump because of this? Sure.  But they like money and Trump is trashing the economy.

Also, they would like opportunities for their kids that use their brains, not this manufacturing paradise Trump is suggesting. They will dump Trump if he keeps this up. Only the crazies like Kash will stick with him
- an Asian [/quote]

So you're cool with the racial discrimination?

We won't vote for him but it feels nice to see consequences for the racial discrimination.  Watching everyone STFU about them being able to discriminate because they are private is cathartic [/quote]

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