The question now is what happens next? Will our most thin-skinned political leaders accept opposition from a bunch of snot-nosed nerds?
Harvard said no. No to government minders, no to intellectual dishonesty, no to conservative DEI.
In a forceful letter of rebuke to the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal money from the university if it does not acquiesce to a series of “ham-handed” demands—including government audits to monitor “ideological capture”—Harvard president Alan M. Garber basically told the government to f–k all the way off. He said it in a more Harvard way, but that was the message.
In response, the government said it would be withholding $2.2 billion in already-appropriated grant money to the school. This is money that Garber said, in the past, “has led to groundbreaking innovations across a wide range of medical, engineering, and scientific fields.” Oh well. We probably didn’t need innovations, anyway.
Harvard’s defiance stands in embarrassing contrast to the actions of Columbia University, which, faced with similar demands, folded like a cheap diploma. (I’m exaggerating. In this country, there’s no such thing as a cheap diploma.)
Watching the different institutions take sides shows the political fault lines that have built up for more than a generation. It’s sort of pretty, and educational.
Harvard was always old money, and most the older families of the super rich do not support what is happening. They want the old empire back, among other things.
Columbia is more new money, and the politically connected , one will see the more recently wealthy , as a rule, or the older ones who are more opportunistic.
Imagine running defense in favor of a private college institution and in favor of them taking taxpayers money to benefit the old money billionaires families that already take classes in there
Basically supporting institutionalized racism
LMAO 🤣
First of all, the real question is why Columbia et al said yes.
Second,
The question now is what happens next? Will our most thin-skinned political leaders accept opposition from a bunch of snot-nosed nerds?
Eat shit. Part of the problem.
This from a publication asking for money called The Daily Beast.
Daily Beast has been pretty good in my experience, I think they may be mocking the administration. Pretty sure Harvard folks and all of us get that they are high-status nerds
