Higher Education's rendezvous with destiny.
Link to quote: Trump cuts more than $400 million in grants to Columbia over antisemitism concerns, more to potentially come
Recently t he Trump administration rescinded more than $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University, citing concerns over rising antisemitism on campus and the school's repeated failure to address it. For a long time, the university has been openly partisan, political, very left wing and proud of it. The university like many has perpetuated a Marxist American ideology of an oppressor/oppressed theory. Somehow under that formula, Jewish Americans and by definition Americans and Isreal are equated with the "white oppressor" over the "non-white oppressed."
Universities have also been in violation of free speech protections and even civil rights statutes. They have instituted racial, gender and sexual orientation bias in admissions, promotions and hiring. At Columbia students have been harassed and threatened. Classes have been interrupted. Buildings have been seized and property damaged.
Now with Donald Trump in office the decades old hold the far left has had on American higher education is facing a bit of a dilemma. They want to continue on as they have but President Trump is about to cut off their life support AKA: federal funding. He also intends to revoke student visas and deport foreign students who violate US laws or present security risks. Trump now presents a perfect storm for those running higher education. The Trump Presidency comes at a time when many are beginning to question the value of a higher education degree. Employers are questioning if they are still getting what they used to from graduates of an elite university.
The gig is up, and everyone seems to know that the time when young adults could go off to college and acquire a well-rounded education in English Composition, math & science knowledge or a basic understanding of history are long gone. All of it was replaced with a rotten ideology which required the indoctrinated to go out and change America. I never thought I'd live to see it, but somebody is finally doing something about it.
“All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,” Trump wrote on Truth Social . “Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Good for Trump for standing up to these little future domestic terrorists.
That's how important the last election was.
Democrats suddenly discovered the first amendment to protect foreign terrorist cheerleaders. But they never want to address the ongoing harassment of Jews at Columbia, nor did they care when Hamas sympathizers destroyed property, held staff members hostage and forced Jewish students to barricade themselves in a library for protection from the mob. All that happened without any meaningful consequences.
Good for trump for not looking the other way like democrats have.
Long overdue.
Many of our higher educational institutions have become nothing more than indoctrination mills.
Sad!
I may have good reasons to disagree with a lot of the things Trump is doing, but along with his general support of Israel I very much agree with what he is doing about antisemitism on campuses. Many Americans seem to think that absolute freedom of speech is a God-given right.
Freedom of speech never including threatening others or denying other students their education or destruction of property.
...and I suppose shouting "FIRE" in a crowded theatre.
Free speech, it seems, is most admired from a distance.
If I use Joe McCarthy as an example of what the denial of free speech can look like, I would have just about everyone in agreement. If I use the current example of Joe Biden's government or the administration of Columbia University of the same thing, I hear the usual gang of angry ideologues arguing that "oh no, they are fighting "disinformation." It is far too easy to silence those that we don't like.
The line for the left is the one between speech and violence.
Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Rignt,and rarely the twain shall meet. What America could use is a little more going forward TOGETHER, and maybe better things might happen there.. IMO, Left, Right, Left, Right is just a march towards oblivion, but then is it not the Ides of March?
That it is. The good part is that by Friday we will walk out and smell the flowers and we'll both feel like young men again.
Yes, Friday will be the first day of Spring, and with Spring there could be hope. After all, as Andy Dufresne said: "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
Not many Buzz. A vocal few. I’d say about 20%.
The same 20% who think it’s acceptable for men to compete in women’s sports. That polls at about 80/20 for all Americans.
Shame on all the Title Nine advocates out there that aren’t shouting from the rooftops to fight that one.
foreign students who are supposed to be here to learn but cause problems should immediately be sent back to where they came from
Yep, pretty simple really.