Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf]

Re:Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes ... by ajross on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:05AM (#43688879)

Classic No-True-Scotsman here: "Oh, well, sure, they were prosecuted in contravention of my point above. But that means they wanted to prosecute them."

(It's also tautological: I mean, of course they wanted to prosecute them. They were criminals and prosecutors prosecute criminals, definitionally!)

(And also also, it's an Occam's violation: the simpler explanation is that they were just treated like criminals and not that they were double-negative enforcement actions by a corrupt regime.)

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Re:Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes ... by kolbe on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:36AM (#43689020)

Did that sound clever in your head? Again, the head of the executive branch can quash any charge he wants. You're the one contending that a person doing X is evidence that they support not-X.

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Re:Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes ... by wredcoll on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @02:12AM (#43689505)

I admire your willingness to argue that, because they didn't do the corrupt thing, they are in fact corrupt.

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Re:Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes ... by kolbe on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @09:36AM (#43692496)

Using your constitutionally granted executive powers is pretty standard.

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