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No. of Recommendations: 5
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social
Here's one of the many clarifying passages in the White House (notionally GSA) letter. It demands Harvard set up a system of political commissars who will enforce hiring and admissions set asides for MAGA luminaries and high school red hats.
• Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring.
By August 2025, the University shall commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually viewpoint diverse. This audit shall begin no later than the summer of 2025 and shall proceed on a department-by-department, field-by-field, or teaching-unit-by-teaching-unit basis as appropriate. The report of the external party shall be submitted to University leadership and
the federal government no later than the end of 2025. Harvard must abolish all criteria, preferences, and practices, whether mandatory or optional, throughout its admissions and hiring practices, that function as ideological litmus tests. Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity; every teaching unit found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by admitting a critical mass of students who will provide viewpoint diversity. If the review finds that the existing faculty in the relevant department or field are not capable of hiring for viewpoint diversity, or that the relevant teaching unit is not capable of admitting a critical mass of students with diverse viewpoints, hiring or admissions within that department, field, or teaching unit shall be transferred to the closest cognate department, field, or teaching unit that is capable of achieving viewpoint diversity. This audit shall be performed and the same steps taken to establish viewpoint diversity every year during the period in which reforms are being implemented, which shall be at least until the end of 2028. END
I think viewpoint diversity should be extended to all religious schools and universities. Not just selective blue Ivy League Universities.
I think there's no end to this and if the courts give out on us, shudder, - just leave SS and Medicare alone till after I die.
No. of Recommendations: 3
isn’t that perfectly Orwellian, “viewpoint diverse”? because the actual goal is the opposite — to ensure that only white supremacist ideologies are taught. and how fucking un-American is it to have government-approved overseers all up in every professor’s shit? Tiedrich
Garber's response:
“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.”
Obama: “Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions — rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.”
Where else did this happen? The Nazi government’s project of remaking German universities was broadly successful, but it produced unintended consequences. The quality of education suffered significantly as classes were regularly cancelled for political assemblies and students' schedules became filled with ideological and paramilitary training.
Have you ever wondered what the world would look like now if Hitler had gotten the atomic bomb first? We were lucky that so many of the best minds left Nazi Germany.
No. of Recommendations: 1
perhaps Europe will be lucky that so many of the best minds are leaving America.....um...
No. of Recommendations: 2
Huh. Harvard signed up for this when they started taking taxpayer money.
They can stop taking it any time they want. Then they're free to silence conservatives and have Hamasniks run riot on their campus all they want.
No. of Recommendations: 19
Harvard signed up for this when they started taking taxpayer money.
Did they? Can you point me to where they agreed to conform their speech to the desires of the federal government as a condition of receiving federal research grants?
Would the same be true under a Democratic Administration? For example, could a future Democratic President decide that no business could obtain a SBA loan or FEMA disaster or relief or contract with the federal government unless they, say, promoted trans equality in all their business practices?
No. of Recommendations: 26
Then they're free to silence conservatives ………
Not sure how Steve Bannon, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, and Jared Kushner ever made it out of Harvard after they were silenced for so many years.
Please provide a list of all the specific actions Harvard took to silence conservatives.
Of course, you won’t be able to provide any.
So stop with the poor victim shtick because it’s getting very old and extremely boring. Republicans control all 3 branches of government at the moment. You get credit for the good and blame for the bad. Deal with it.
But one thing you don’t get credit for is playing the poor victim card. No one is buying that bullshit.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Not sure how Steve Bannon, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, and Jared Kushner ever made it out of Harvard after they were silenced for so many years.
Probably how anybody does. They don’t wear their politics on their sleeves.
So stop with the poor victim shti
<Looks around>
What are you talking about?
Look. It’s not my fault that “elite” (read: lame-o) institutions can’t hide their antisemitism anymore. The rest of us don’t have to subsidize it via federal tax dollars.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Did they?
Biden and Obama found all kinds of ways via Title IX to invent rules. I’m pretty sure one can be invented for this.
Or are you asserting that Haaahvaahd has a right to federal research money?
Democratic President decide that no business could obtain a SBA loan or FEMA disaster or relief or contract with the federal government unless they, say, promoted trans equality in all their business practices?
Nah, that’s too subtle. democrats just withhold FEMA aid based on how many Republican yard signs they see.
No. of Recommendations: 14
Biden and Obama found all kinds of ways via Title IX to invent rules. I’m pretty sure one can be invented for this.
Or are you asserting that Haaahvaahd has a right to federal research money?
Yes, they do. Or rather, they have a right for the same opportunity to apply for federal research money free of unconstitutional conditions. The government can't require you to abandon a constitutional protection or right as a condition for obtaining a federal benefit, even a discretionary one.
So, for example, the State of Florida can't require that anyone who wants to have a driver's license has to issue a written endorsement of Donald Trump for President. Getting a driver's license is a discretionary benefit - you don't have a right to get a driver's license. But they can't violate your First Amendment rights as a condition of letting you get it.
If there's an actual statute (like Title IX) that governs the University, then they have to comply with that law. But I'm pretty sure that many of the demands made by the Administration (like having more conservative voices) don't fall within Title IX.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Or rather, they have a right for the same opportunity to apply for federal research money free of unconstitutional conditions.
Allowing Jewish students the same access to campus facilities as Hamas supporters is unConstitutional? That'll be fun for Harvard to argue in court.
No. of Recommendations: 9
Allowing Jewish students the same access to campus facilities as Hamas supporters is unConstitutional? That'll be fun for Harvard to argue in court.
Which is why that wouldn't be Harvard's argument. I expect they'll argue that they have taken sufficient steps to comply with whatever the law requires to ensure Jewish students access to campus facilities. Since the demands levied by the Administration go well beyond merely addressing Jewish student concerns on campus, that's where they probably feel pretty good about their case in court.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Allowing Jewish students the same access to campus facilities as Hamas supporters is unConstitutional? That'll be fun for Harvard to argue in court.
Campuses allowed wokeness to get out of hand, no doubt. They’ve been reigning that in for a couple of years now.
Nobody is going to argue in court that antisemitism is ok.
That’s one of those Clupeidae reflecting light at a 620-750 nm. wave length.
No. of Recommendations: 14
Characterizing protestors for the cessation of the murder of Palestinian women and children as "Hamas Supporters" is the lowest form of calumny and slander. As is the labeling those standing up for human rights as antisemites.
Josef Goebbels would be proud.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Characterizing protestors for the cessation of the murder of Palestinian women and children as "Hamas Supporters" is the lowest form of calumny and slander.
Sez the guy throwing around "murder" charges, especially in light of 10/7.
Balls/strikes. Calling 'em as they come over the plate.
No. of Recommendations: 13
Characterizing protestors for the cessation of the murder of Palestinian women and children as "Hamas Supporters" is the lowest form of calumny and slander. As is the labeling those standing up for human rights as antisemites.
Josef Goebbels would be proud.
And yet, this is the pattern perfected by Goebbels and Trump—a complete rejection of rationality, as language is turned on its ear to assert the false as true.
It's taken almost thirty years of FOXNews inspired butchering of truth to get them to this point, but once the cord to reality is cut, there's no limitation on the bending and twisting of language and facts that can be shaped into any chosen message ..
Sorta like those clowns with balloons... You want a dog? Here's a "dog". How 'bout a nice rabbit? Here's a rabbit.
MAGA is now in the position of claiming balloon dogs are real dogs and balloon rabbits are real rabbits.
No. of Recommendations: 16
"Allowing Jewish students the same access to campus facilities as Hamas supporters is unConstitutional? That'll be fun for Harvard to argue in court." - Dumbass Dope
You know they are Palestinian supporters and not Hamas supporters right? Are you able to grasp the difference between the two? I bet you can't. That is why you are Dumbass Dope.
