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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Obama did not tell schools their federal funding depended on creating entire DEI programs, much less demand to pick students and faculty who shared his party’s “viewpoints.” If you mean trans kids getting to use the restroom that matched their identity, you can’t possibly think that was as consequential as reshaping the ideology of any entire university’s population, as the Harvard letter lays out. I’m all for diversity of thought, but the gov should not be in the business of evaluating what that looks like when it itself swings so dramatically from one election to the other.

Republicans are supposed to favor small gov![/quote]

[b]Forcing trans ideology on everyone is not really great either.[/b]

And Republicans never favored small government, they favor low taxes and no entitlements or social safety nets.  Bootstraps and all that.[/quote]

Not forcing ideology - enforcing respect for individual human beings, including those with whom you disagree.....Including different viewpoints - isn't that what the Trump argument is here complaining that universities are squashing conservative voices? 
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They were enforcing compliance with trans ideology.

It wasn't live and let live.  It was, do as I say.[/quote]

What a tiny percentage of the population yo worry about.

Sure you don't have Trans Derangement Syndrome?
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You are not winning any converts this way.[/quote]

It's too late for that.

I'm not hoping to win you. You are clearly nuts and lost sight of the narrative a long time ago.
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Right back at you.  You are part of the reason trump won [/quote]

Trump won because bigots gonna bigot. DP. 
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So that's the winning formula?  Just nominate a bigot and the Republicans keep winning?

I doubt that's true.[/quote]

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