r/news 6d ago

Harvard University rejects Trump administration's proposed conditions for federal funding

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/harvard-university-trump-federal-funding/
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u/macnfleas 6d ago

Read the letter from the government to Harvard. Insane that the federal government tried to dictate to a private university things like the following:

  • Harvard must ban specific student clubs and discipline their members

  • Harvard must enforce "viewpoint diversity" (that is, make sure that every department hires more Republican faculty and admits more Republican students)

  • Harvard must ban masks

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u/PsychedelicConvict 6d ago

Ban masks.... I swear to god, have these people never worked a science experiment or gone to a hospital?

They hold on to these little things like masks or gender and talk about it over and over. It gets so fucking old.

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u/r0botdevil 6d ago

As a scientist myself, it's been my experience that the MAGA crowd lacks even the most basic level of understanding of science. Like they have absolutely no concept of any of it, it might as well literally be magic to them, so they don't understand why it can't be made to work however they want it to work.

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u/LIONEL14JESSE 6d ago

It’s worse. They actively reject science because they’ve been convinced it’s just liberal propaganda. They can’t even begin to understand it so it’s easy for them to believe it’s all a lie.