Anonymous
04/17/2025 22:15
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:I think this is an important point, when you say it is all BS. It actually is not all BS. I do feel bad for Harvard, because the Trump Administration is not negotiating in good faith and is overreaching. And certainly the threat of pulling Harvard’s tax exemption is grossly unfair and illegal. But it is not all BS. The race politics and race identity focus of Harvard is actually harming the people it is intended to help. The DEI programming was terribly misguided.
It is a tough situation. Trump is a bad person and a poor President, no doubt. But when a large number of your fellow Americans say something is wrong, I suggest you not dismiss it as BS coming from ignorant people. Instead, maybe you should think harder about why some of these people are upset and what solutions might be acceptable to both sides.
The Supreme Court has decided that race cannot be a factor in admissions which Harvard follows as well as other colleges I assume. So what is the problem with Harvard? There have been no pro-Hamas protests and everyone knows it. The antisemitism has been greatly exaggerated and is being used as an excuse for the administration to take over the schools.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 21:52
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Defund racist and anti Semitic Harvard.
Exactly. They are wealthy enough without my hard earned tax dollars.
Better to stop poisoning people, then to endlessly steal from us.
We’ve been sucked into a massive racket.
Defund all colleges and universities is the thing to do. If you don’t attend university, why should our hard earned money subsidize them.
OMG, have you ever taken medication? Do you know someone who has? Who do you think invents them? The level of stupidity and ignorance on this thread is stunning
DP. Exactly. This money is not funding the university, it's funding research that benefits American and humanity that the university excels at doing and earned a grant for through a competitive application process. It's not some handout or subsidy. So many people subject to Trump's propaganda do not understand how the funding works.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 21:44
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I am willing to see harvard destroyed to serve as a cautionary tale against racism, why aren't you? I'd like to see their tax exempt status revoked and all federal funding withdrawn and reallocated to flagship state schools. There is nothing unique about harvard's labs (or any of the ivy league labs) that the research cannot be done elsewhere. If the grants move to UNC, UVA and U of Florida, so will the researchers. I am not happy that they are using a wrecking ball but just like people thought for decades that a little asian discrimination was a small price to pay for racial justice, this temporary disruption in research is a small price to pay for eliminating left wing racial discrimination.
You don't think state schools also practiced affirmative action? (Which was, by the way, legal under controlling Supreme Court precedent prior to the Harvard case.)
There is no stopping point.
Do you think Trump cares about Asians at all? Cautionary tale against racism? What kind of bubble do you live in? One that doesn't see the reality of what Trump is doing? It's sad to see how quickly things are unraveling and people stand by and cheer. Your narrow, misguided view is anathema to ideal you purport.
PP here. I have no idea what you are saying. I was responding to a prior poster who idiotically claimed that federal research dollars should be redirected from Harvard and its ilk (which should be shut down altogether) to state schools, since the latter have not been guilty of the supposed anti-Asian racism that supposedly characterizes Harvard's admissions practices. My point was that, on Trump's purported reasoning, all colleges should be defunded and shut down, not just the Ivy League. Nothing about his alleged rationale is limited to Harvard.
And no, I don't think that Trump cares in the slightest bit about Asians or racism. That is, quite obviously, pretext.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 18:48
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I am willing to see harvard destroyed to serve as a cautionary tale against racism, why aren't you? I'd like to see their tax exempt status revoked and all federal funding withdrawn and reallocated to flagship state schools. There is nothing unique about harvard's labs (or any of the ivy league labs) that the research cannot be done elsewhere. If the grants move to UNC, UVA and U of Florida, so will the researchers. I am not happy that they are using a wrecking ball but just like people thought for decades that a little asian discrimination was a small price to pay for racial justice, this temporary disruption in research is a small price to pay for eliminating left wing racial discrimination.
You don't think state schools also practiced affirmative action? (Which was, by the way, legal under controlling Supreme Court precedent prior to the Harvard case.)
There is no stopping point.
Do you think Trump cares about Asians at all? Cautionary tale against racism? What kind of bubble do you live in? One that doesn't see the reality of what Trump is doing? It's sad to see how quickly things are unraveling and people stand by and cheer. Your narrow, misguided view is anathema to ideal you purport.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 16:30
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:I think this is an important point, when you say it is all BS. It actually is not all BS. I do feel bad for Harvard, because the Trump Administration is not negotiating in good faith and is overreaching. And certainly the threat of pulling Harvard’s tax exemption is grossly unfair and illegal. But it is not all BS. The race politics and race identity focus of Harvard is actually harming the people it is intended to help. The DEI programming was terribly misguided.
It is a tough situation. Trump is a bad person and a poor President, no doubt. But when a large number of your fellow Americans say something is wrong, I suggest you not dismiss it as BS coming from ignorant people. Instead, maybe you should think harder about why some of these people are upset and what solutions might be acceptable to both sides.
It's difficult to see it that way when the people criticizing "elite" universities are the graduates of those universities who (1) chose to attend (2) have benefitted greatly from their education there or (3) are not college-educated people who disparage college education to begin with.
DEI programming has gone off the rails in general. So FIX it by adjusting, not be entirely eliminating it and everything else ultra-conservatives dislike. But that's not what the administration is trying to do. They are not interested in fixing it. They are only interested in eliminating everything they dislike and/or stands in their way.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 14:22
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Americans are done funding ultra-elitist indoctrination centers.
I know, we live in idiocracy now. You're the poster child.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 14:21
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is happening to international students at Harvard? Will they be allowed to stay?
If they’re behaving like the guests that they are, sure!
You have no business discussing Harvard or any other university since you are clearly not college-educated.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 14:20
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:
Check your compression, my friend.
"Check your compression?" Why are we arguing with illiterate morons? Oh, right. Because illiterate morons are currently running our country into the ground.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 14:13
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Defund racist and anti Semitic Harvard.
Exactly. They are wealthy enough without my hard earned tax dollars.
Better to stop poisoning people, then to endlessly steal from us.
We’ve been sucked into a massive racket.
Defund all colleges and universities is the thing to do. If you don’t attend university, why should our hard earned money subsidize them.
OMG, have you ever taken medication? Do you know someone who has? Who do you think invents them? The level of stupidity and ignorance on this thread is stunning
Anonymous
04/17/2025 14:10
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Defund racist and anti Semitic Harvard.
Anti semitic is an overused and trite word used by anyone who disagree with Zionism. Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University is a practicing Jew who grew up in a Jewish household.
Zero evidence.
Wow. Nothing more anti semitic than demanding evidence that a Jewish man is Jewish. What exact evidence other than his well known bio would you demand?
Anonymous
04/17/2025 11:47
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
What is happening to international students at Harvard? Will they be allowed to stay?
Anonymous
04/17/2025 11:20
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Defund racist and anti Semitic Harvard.
Anti semitic is an overused and trite word used by anyone who disagree with Zionism. Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University is a practicing Jew who grew up in a Jewish household.
This.
Being critical of a nationalist and fascist country is NOT ant-Semitic. Thankfully, a majority of Americans now agree. Negative views of Israel are on the rise among members of both parties, young and old.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 11:19
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Sounds like you skipped the letter with the Trump admin’s demands. In the second link.
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.
+1. It’s Harvard that is making the decision to abandon funding for medical and other important research. Obviously their commitment to DEI ideology is more important to them than real work that can benefit society. So be it.
Exactly.
No not exactly
Anonymous
04/17/2025 11:15
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Sounds like you skipped the letter with the Trump admin’s demands. In the second link.
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.
+1. It’s Harvard that is making the decision to abandon funding for medical and other important research. Obviously their commitment to DEI ideology is more important to them than real work that can benefit society. So be it.
Exactly.
Anonymous
04/17/2025 11:14
Subject: Harvard Rejects Trump Admin’s Demands, Going to Court
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Defund racist and anti Semitic Harvard.
Anti semitic is an overused and trite word used by anyone who disagree with Zionism. Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University is a practicing Jew who grew up in a Jewish household.
Zero evidence.
So you are saying there is zero evidence the president of Harvard is Jewish. WTF. You people are cray-cray.
Check your compression, my friend.
Perhaps define your idea of “a practicing Jew” and “Jewish household”.