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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/27/harvard-trump-settlement-columbia/
The White House is pushing Harvard for a major financial settlement in negotiations to restore more than $2 billion in frozen funds, according to a person familiar with the talks — and demanding that Harvard cough up even more than Columbia University did earlier this week.

United States President Donald Trump is personally pressing officials involved in the negotiations to ensure Harvard pays more than Columbia’s $220 million deal, the person said, adding that Trump believes exceeding that sum would set an example.

The Trump administration has publicly framed the Columbia deal as a “template” for future settlements with elite universities like Harvard. Trump himself has zeroed in on Harvard because of a personal disdain for the University, according to the person, treating the school as a centerpiece in his broader campaign against higher education.[/quote]

Wait til Trump does this to every other elite university in the country.  Trump has legalized extortion, apparently.[/quote]

First they came for Columbia
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Columbia alum
Then they came for Harvard
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Harvard alum
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me[/quote]
Imagine criminals write these in their jail cell. It’s funny.[/quote]

It's actually a spin on a famous poem referring to people who refused to speak out against the Holocaust. People use it when they talk about how people refuse to speak out against wrongdoing because it doesn't affect them directly, and eventually the leopard does in fact bite their face.[/quote]
You think I don’t know that? But when perpetrators say that, it makes it sound really funny.[/quote]

Go call your nurse and have them give you your meds.  Accusing those speaking out for academic freedom and against extortion of being perpetrators makes you sound insane. [/quote]
Racial discrimination is academic freedom? You’re trying too hard to redefine the term.[/quote]

You're very confused.  No one--not even Trump--is threatening Harvard's funding over racial discrimination.    You need to learn to read.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html

Judge Allison D. Burroughs did not issue a ruling during a crucial hearing, which lasted more than two hours in her courtroom in Boston. But she did seem receptive to Harvard’s arguments, as both the school and the government sought to have the case decided in their favor without a trial.

The judge unleashed a barrage of pointed questions at the lone Justice Department lawyer. She demanded to know, for instance, how the administration could reasonably tie withdrawal of medical research funding to concerns about the civil rights of Jewish people.

And she appeared bothered by the administration’s hurried approach to attacking Harvard’s research funding, suggesting there were potentially “staggering” constitutional consequences if the government could punish a university without due process.

Monday’s hearing came two months after Harvard sued the Trump administration. In the lawsuit, Harvard accused the government of threatening the school’s First Amendment rights when it conditioned federal funding on the university bowing to a set of Trump administration demands. Beyond free speech concerns, a central question in the case is whether the Trump administration ignored rules and procedures when it blocked the funds.

The administration framed its tactics as a righteous response to antisemitism. But Harvard and its allies saw the roster of federal demands as intrusions untethered from trying to eradicate discrimination.[/quote]
One of the Trump requests is to stop DEI, which is racial discrimination.[/quote]

How is DEI racial discrimination?[/quote]
OMG! Really! Because it gives preferential treatment based on race!!![/quote]

When someone claims, without evidence, that a Black or Brown person in a position of significance is a “DEI” hire, they’re making three admissions. They:
1. Believe all positions of significance belong to them by default.
2. Believe Black and Brown people are inherently inferior and that there HAD to be a White person more qualified.
3. Believe that sharing power fairly disadvantages them, which is an unconscious acknowledgment that they currently hold it all.[/quote]

I'm the anti-Trump poster from below. I am strongly in favor of diversity. But I have also had the misfortune of working with "DEI hires". They were people who were grossly unqualified hired solely on the basis of their skin color. It was often embarrassing for them - our employer gave them tons of extra help and resources but they were in way over their head. And the other minority employees who actually were highly qualified and talented resented them the most. Because since there were plenty of DEI hires, it was not wrong to assume that the others also were.

I am fine with giving minorities preference when "all things are basically equal." And I think more efforts should be made to reach out to minority candidates who are qualified and make them feel welcome in largely white organizations. But when the candidate is several standard deviations below in terms of qualifications, it is pushing it too far. This doesn't happen frequently, but it is not totally rare either.[/quote]

How do you feel about Hegseth and Vance — just to quickly name two?  They are hardly the most qualified people out there for their positions.  They don’t even seem to be personally liked by the president who chose them.  It’s also pretty easy to argue that their race and their gender where helpful factors in getting them their jobs.  They are — in my opinion — grossly unqualified and hired almost solely on the basis of skin color and gender.  Any thoughts?  Or do you only care about qualifications when it comes to people that you view as minorities? 
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