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A comment on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes. Parent comment

Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by quotemstr on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:31PM (#43685274)
I'm fine with stopping the flow of federal money to people who hate me in particular and who take a salary to convince others to do so too. Those who defend the conduct of universities need to pause and consider that the public has noticed the radicalization of academia, despises it, and will support state action to reverse it.
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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by pqtyw on Monday April 14, 2025 @04:15PM (#43685827)
Well you claimed they are violating "the fourteenth amendment" which hardly makes sense. How could they be doing that? Is Harvard a Government agency? A state unto itself?
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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by morleytj on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:38PM (#43685356)
Who hates you in particular? What do you mean by that? Also, that's fine to have a conversation about funding, but it's fairly different from arrests, deportations, and shipping individuals to foreign prisons. Rather motte and bailey to earlier suggest that the government was going to go "Henry VII" on universities, and then say that you just want to change funding. These are very different positions.
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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by monkey_monkey on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:36PM (#43685318)
Which people do you think "hate you in particular"? Why do they hate you - what have you done to them?
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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by __loam on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:34PM (#43685297)
They hate you because you're a useful idiot, not because of your skin color, for the record.
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Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding... by otterley on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @09:18AM (#43692268)
Can you please elaborate on the “radicalization” of academia? What “radical” actions have they been taking, exactly? And are these actions pervasive or situational?
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