Trump now attempting to control how people think!

[Jitendra Hydonus]

The administration had demanded Harvard University follow several directives meant to prioritize President Donald Trump’s culture war agenda, including ending diversity programs, promoting right-wing faculty members, and preventing the admittance of students who don’t have “American values” — a thinly veiled way of demanding the college prioritize Trump supporters. If the university didn’t, the administration threatened, it would withhold $2 billion of federal funding, money that was needed for research on topics like medicine, agriculture and engineering.

It was part of a conservative playbook of threatening elite universities in Trump’s second term. In February, the U.S. Department of Education demanded that universities comply with its demands over admissions, student activists and diversity programs or else risk losing their federal funding.

The Trump administration had made similar demands of Columbia University, threatening to withhold $400 million in funding if the school did not ban face masks on campus and allow the Trump administration to control several of its departments, including programs that focus on the Middle East. Ultimately, the school capitulated.

But Harvard didn’t. In public statements, the university essentially told Trump no, they would not be caving to his threats. 

“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,” Alan Garber, the president of Harvard, said in an open letter to the community on Monday.

For years, the Republican Party has fashioned itself as the party of free speech. They have alleged that diversity of opinion, beliefs and thought was central to their ideology and anyone who disagreed was trying to censor them. And while their protestations always seemed shallow — after all, they seem to only be arguing for the right for conservatives to say what they want without repercussions — with Donald Trump back in power it seems as if we’ve entered a new phase in the battle over not just free speech, but the ability to shape the way Americans think in the first place.

From trying to exert control over what universities can teach and which students they admit, to attempting to defund public media, or deporting college students whose opinions they don’t like, the Trump administration is trying to police the thoughts and beliefs of many of America’s major institutions.

“It’s both absurd and dangerous at the same time,” Kristen Shahverdian, the program director of campus free speech at PEN America, a nonprofit that promotes free expression, told HuffPost. 
“He’s seeking to control education, the press, law firms, because there are major institutions that serve as the places that speak truth and are doing the work of pushing back,” she said. 

In his second term, Trump isn’t just trying to exert control over the entire federal government — he’s also taking aim at the major institutions that shape public life. If Trump can control what colleges can teach, which news outlets can report on his harmful policies, and what ideas are allowed to be discussed, he can reshape American life as we know it.

“Authoritarian rulers have strong incentives to control the information environment in order to suppress individuals, ideas and organizations that can enable mobilization against them,” Jennifer Pan, a political scientist and professor at Stanford University, told HuffPost.
Trump’s multifaceted war on information boils down to the need to suppress criticism and opposition. But it also encompasses the need to quash the ability for dissenting ideas to spread to others — just last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted on social media that it was their job to prevent illegal ideas from crossing the border.

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[mccoy]

Columbia University clearly became a hangout for radical leftists, even supporting the activities of students related to the Hamas terrorists. It is all too reasonable to make things fair again. If universities want to support terrorists and radical left lunatics, then they can do that with their own money, not with the public money.

I support Mr. Trump's actions to eradicate the radical leftists from American universities. This is what Yogananda wanted, to liberate America from communism, and such universities constitute a resurgence of communism, in an even more sinister and dystopic fashion.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Columbia University clearly became a hangout for radical leftists, even supporting the activities of students related to the Hamas terrorists. It is all too reasonable to make things fair again. If universities want to support terrorists and radical left lunatics, then they can do that with their own money, not with the public money.

I support Mr. Trump's actions to eradicate the radical leftists from American universities. This is what Yogananda wanted, to liberate America from communism, and such universities constitute a resurgence of communism, in an even more sinister and dystopic fashion.

Mccoy you are a spewing typical right wing agendas. Being left wing is a far cry from communism! Am i a communist because I want to have a liberal education? Certainly not! In fact I would say that Trump is more of a communist since he cozies up to dictators and openly admires them! Whereas I openly say that Xi and the likes of Jung Un and Putin are menaces to society.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Columbia University clearly became a hangout for radical leftists, even supporting the activities of students related to the Hamas terrorists. It is all too reasonable to make things fair again. If universities want to support terrorists and radical left lunatics, then they can do that with their own money, not with the public money.

I support Mr. Trump's actions to eradicate the radical leftists from American universities. This is what Yogananda wanted, to liberate America from communism, and such universities constitute a resurgence of communism, in an even more sinister and dystopic fashion.

With your type of logic we could have a Democratic president who would say that we will not support right wing educational systems because of their radical views. Does this happen? No; because left wing people generally support freedom of speech in getting the education people prefer; whether it is their view or someone else’s. Since when is an educational system monitored on the way they think in the United States??? Since when has a university constituted a resurgence of communism? You must be talking about Donald Trump and his admiration of communist dictators.

[mccoy]

There are moderate leftists and there are radical leftists. These support a narrative sometimes very similar to communism. They have shown that they will not hesitate to suppress freedom of speech when the speech is contrary to their agendas.

A university funded by federal money supporting a spokesman of a terrorist organization is something that only the previous administration could tolerate.

Again, Mr. Trump is secretly thanking Columbia university and the radical leftists, because he was elected because of those extremist ideas, and whatever they do or tell, his polls will soar up. This happened in Italy. It will probably happen in America.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

There are moderate leftists and there are radical leftists. These support a narrative sometimes very similar to communism. They have shown that they will not hesitate to suppress freedom of speech when the speech is contrary to their agendas.

A university funded by federal money supporting a spokesman of a terrorist organization is something that only the previous administration could tolerate.

Again, Mr. Trump is secretly thanking Columbia university and the radical leftists, because he was elected because of those extremist ideas, and whatever they do or tell, his polls will soar up. This happened in Italy. It will probably happen in America.

You are mistaken mccoy the United States has supported terrorism for decades. The place? The school
of the Americas.

A school in the United States that is responsible for many right wing agendas to destabilize and terrorize other nations governments. This school is supported and financed by the United States Right wing political system to promote politics that mirror the views of far right autocrats and politicians.

A deeper analysis of the history of the School of the Americas, its training practices, and US involvement in Latin America in the form of a case study of the El Mozote Massacre of the Salvadoran Civil War, reveals a strong link between the United States and military oppression in Latin America and southern America countries.


The Broad Impact of the School of the Am…
www.csuhisppg.shelleyrose.org/exhibits/show/clam/fo…

rarely do we ever hear anything about the responsibility the United States has to these countries and the role it played in creating those situations of extreme instability in countries all across Latin America. Because the fact of the matter is that the United States is directly responsible for military dictatorships, genocides, mass "disappearances," guerrilla warfare, and other situations of extreme violence that have ravaged countries from Guatemala to Chile for decades.

The vast majority of the people who carried out these atrocities were trained by U.S. military officers at what was once known as the School of the Americas (SOA). According to The Washington Post, over 60,000 Latin American soldiers have received military training at the school since it was opened in Panama in 1946. Let's take a look at the sordid history of the School of the Americas and trace its influence to the most contentious political issues we face today

Read More: https://www.grunge.com/338237/the-messed-up-history-of-the-school-of-the-americas/

[mccoy]

That's an interesting fact, I'll have to search it but in that context I do not doubt your words.

So, you are now criticizing that SOA. I would say with some reason. Then, by the same logic, you should criticize the way Columbia and Harvard are supporting elements who are part of a vicious terrorist network. Hence, Mr. Trump is doing a righteous thing, and at the same time should avoid by all means to repeat the experience of the SOA.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

That's an interesting fact, I'll have to search it but in that context I do not doubt your words.

So, you are now criticizing that SOA. I would say with some reason. Then, by the same logic, you should criticize the way Columbia and Harvard are supporting elements who are part of a vicious terrorist network. Hence, Mr. Trump is doing a righteous thing, and at the same time should avoid by all means to repeat the experience of the SOA.

This is merely conjecture on your part. To educate people in the way others handle government and administrator it is not to support it. Nor to necessarily encourage it. If that was so we would also have to say that Tucker Carlson supports dictatorship because he interviewed Putin and let him go on unhindered for a half an hour telling the history of Russia and Ukraine. Or that Tulsi Gabbard supported the cruel dictatorship of Syria because she informed our people about Bashar al-Assad views.

Informing and educating young people how other countries with different views then our own is not to encourage those views. Students themselves are responsible for their political and moral views. Strongly Christian Colleges teach a view of the world that often promotes far right dogma, however their teachings are not curbed by left and liberal politicians to promote views which would be much more tolerant. This shows how liberal thought I’d tolerant and far right views are often intolerant.

[mccoy]

A spokesperson of Hammas, educating the audience on how to exterminate jews, on how to rape civilian women, on how to kill innocent boys and girls engaged in a party, and how to take hostages to exchange with other terrorists, in a ratio 1:1000?

What a nice education I can receive at Columbia! I wonder who the dean is: Satan himself or perhaps Belzeebub?

[Jitendra Hydonus]

A spokesperson of Hammas, educating the audience on how to exterminate jews, on how to rape civilian women, on how to kill innocent boys and girls engaged in a party, and how to take hostages to exchange with other terrorists, in a ratio 1:1000?

What a nice education I can receive at Columbia! I wonder who the dean is: Satan himself or perhaps Belzeebub?

You have quite an extreme sense of humor my friend; the day that Columbia or Harvard has such classes would be the day people stopped coming for classes. Show some sense of intelligence on this issue please. I went to college for years. There is no college in the U.S. that would even consider hiring professors for such type of classes. Your example is so extreme and ridiculous to not even consider it. I wouldn’t think you would even consider going this far to defend your political views you hold on to even more than you think I’m obsessed about my indignation towards Donald Trump. You don’t need to over think this mccoy. Even with all the cruelty Trump represents to our country. He still has a soul and one day, in some life these acts of coldness and a lack of empathy will come back to face him. Who wouldn’t pray for him then? He’ll need it!