Sen. Cotton tells Harvard University to ‘follow the law’ or lose federal funding | Fox News Video
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., blasts Harvard for defying the Trump administration after it moved to pull federal funds from elite universities refusing to comply with new rules.
    • Area72@lemy.lolOP
      113·
      6 days ago

      Nope. If Harvard is so awesome, then I’m sure they can do just fine without federal funding.

      • BowlingForBowlsEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        Nope

        That’s what passes for political discourse here? I can dismiss your nope as easily as I can the zero evidence you bring. Do better.

        This is political pressure, applied illegally, because anti-DEI viewpoints are so unpopular they can’t be bought for $~10B.

        This is prime snowflake territory.

        • Area72@lemy.lolOP
          115·
          6 days ago

          That’s what passes for political discourse here?

          This isn’t a college class. It’s a fucking internet forum. I don’t have to have political discourse with references, and proof and citations.

          You seem like the snowflake here. If you don’t like this community, then please feel free to start you own. And in your community, you can have rules for “political discourse” and make sure that the only people who respond have proof and citations and references.

          Be the change you wanna see, guy!

          And if Harvard is so awesome, then they can do just fine without political funding. :)

          • BowlingForBowlsEnglish
            9·
            6 days ago

            A few comments in and I’m already being told to make my own community. Why are you so scared to talk with me? The insults, the “it’s just a forum”, you attack me and not my ideas, it’s like you hardly believe in anything.

            • Area72@lemy.lolOP
              111·
              6 days ago

              A few comments in and I’m already being told to make my own community.

              Be the change that you wanna be, guy! I’m not scared at all. I just told you I don’t have to have deep political discourse with you.

              So what’s your community gonna be called? Maybe when I am in the mood for political discourse with references and citations, I can post there.

                • Donald MuskMEnglish
                  14·
                  5 days ago

                  But you’re a sock puppet for the mod here and this conversation is over.

                  No personal attacks. No one is my sock puppet.

                • Area72@lemy.lolOP
                  110·
                  6 days ago

                  You are free to stay. I never asked you to leave. I merely mentioned that if you are that concerned, you could always start your own community where political discourse is a rule and not an exception.

                  You are totally free to stay. And I am totally free not to have to explain anything to you unless I feel like it.

          • Allero
            1·
            5 days ago

            Sure, but then your statement barely holds any weight.

            There is a valid concern being brought here. Pulling funding out is a classic way the government pressures institutions into complying with anything. Sure, Harvard can do on its own, but the more funding is pulled out, the harder it will become to manage balances long-term and the more Harvard falls down the ratings, while other better-funded institutions take over.

            Higher education spaces have always been the breeding ground for opposition, and this is good. People protesting unpopular decisions is one of the checks and balances of the democratic system, and this part is being aggressively bulldozed. This is authoritarianism and dismantling of the core democratic values of the American society - something conservatives must be concerned about.