To be eligible for government grants (kinda funny a “private university” recieves the billions… 
) there are truck loads of rules & regs one must be in compliance with.
Promoting and protecting “palestinians” calling for genocide and getting violent with the target of their hatred is not in that truckload.
Refusing to be compliant eliminates them from being eligible.
Maybe if they want billions of public dollars they should work on that and many other compliance issues they’ve been having.
Perfect synopsis.
The TDS cultists who continue to die on the altar of the “Maryland man/dad” aka pos dangerous gang member, are mind numbingly idiotic. An actual U.S. Senator is planning to fly to El Salvador to “rescue” this poor oppressed individual.
I even recall a TDS cultist linking us to that very story in this thread…LOL.
You know I agree with you on lotsa stuff. That said.
Post Russiagate, post 50ish intelligence “experts” signing a letter, post Covid ('da Science!), I think that the term “expert” has to be defined, in depth, without faith being given blindly.
Not only do they have to find ways to spin the bad outcomes of their policies, they have to find ways to spin the good outcomes of MAGA policies.
That’s how all of these assholes become their heroes. Just like George Floyd, who was a royal asshole who died from all of the drugs in his system, not the scrawny cop’s knee pin. Luigi is another great example of an asshole who is celebrated.
Meanwhile, reality continues to demonstrate the depths of their deception. Of course the invasion was planned and could have been stopped at any moment.
I’m of the belief that the expert class has completely shredded its own credibility and will take decades to regain it. That said, when I wanted to learn more about the Nazis because I’m being called one, I didn’t go to Tucker Carlson, reddit, or my brother.
I went to some German academics and read their well-supported books explaining the Nazis.
But that isn’t the case with Harvard. It’s allowing the government to decide what is or isn’t anti American, anti West, antisemitic, and collecting data on any student who they decide should be on some McCarthyesque list of subversives. It was bad enough when the woke were stifling ideas and beliefs they didn’t agree with, now the right wants to do the same.
Pushing the government’s agenda and special interests, shouldn’t be part of the qualifying criteria.
See, we agree…
(I like Tucker, but he’s definitely a little out there; but he interviews a lot of listenable guests)
But that requires effort!..and probably some innate intelligence/smarts (notice I did not say education).
But, people don’t go to Tucker for his opinion they listen to the people he has on like Daryl Cooper. Tucker is not in the same league as Dave Smith. That is not what he does. He simply interviews.
Murray was just gate keeping. He had an elitist attitude and could not argue nor defend his points. He is just another neocon.
Murray’s claim to fame is he has a posh accent, and he was an English major.
@punnyguy Zitelmann’s Hitler’s National Socialism wasn’t an easy read by any means, not through any fault of his since it’s literally Hitler’s fault that Hitler’s ideas were not coherent. I suppose some blame can be laid on Marx for dialectical materialism as well, but I don’t think reading academic history books is out-of-reach for most people who know how to use a dictionary.
You might be lost without knowing the background, but wikipedia can serve well enough to give enough context to understand most well-supported books.
I’m beginning to understand that there’s no such thing as an expert in politics, unless you count politicians who have been effective. There’s certainly no such thing as an unbiased political talking head. I have learned to trust the ones who own their biases more than those who pretend to be “objective”.
@OTay Again, I don’t know anything about either except what was on the JRE podcast. I could see him writing a book on neoconservatism, who are a group of politicians I’ve never supported.
I haven’t watched much Tucker for that matter, either. When it comes to politics and current events, I just try to get multiple sources and pay attention to the actual laws being proposed and passed, along with executive actions, etc.
Local politics is just a matter of me paying attention to publicly-available information and government proceedings. I don’t rely on any explainers to explain it to me, but the Maine Wire is very helpful at shining a light on the current government.
If the state flips, as I predict it will with voter ID, I will be paying attention to the libs. Not for any policies of theirs, but because I know they will highlight all of their perceived issues with the government. Most will be bullshit mush-words, but some good points will surely be found.
Marx himself had many astute criticisms of his world, and Marxist critique has value. Marxist policy and social visions for the future are finally beginning to be tossed into the rubbish bin, at least here in the USA.
Actually, this is exactly the same approach that Dave Smith espouses. He has said that he does not consider himself an expert by any means.
Imho, Smith’s one weakness is he is too forgiving of how environment can alter the innate “goodness” of a particular…people, if you will, to put it nicely.
I suppose I can empathize with Smith. My writing for my modest Maine audience is quite a bit different than what I spew out here, with no profanity or good natured racial slurs at all, plus I read it a few times before making my words public.
I’ve had to explain to several people that I have never once portrayed myself as an expert, except for my essay about how men are innately stronger than women. My relevant credentials were deadlifting more than any woman on the planet until Tamara Walcott came along and pulled 636.
I’m not an expert, an intellectual, an academic, brilliant or any of the other compliments I’ve received. I am a literate man and a Lewiston voter.
It should. The government in this case represents Us. Our collective interests aren’t special interests.
If they want public dollars, there are 2 ways to get them.
I don’t care about their name, status, self congradulatory titles or high minded ideals when their output is complete fucking shit.
All these Ivy League schools have billions in “endowments”. It’s insane that a federal gov’t that is in debt for trillions and trillions, should be giving ANY public funding to these schools.
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Princeton University: $34.1 billion (FY 2023).
University of Pennsylvania: $22.3 billion (FY 2023).
Columbia University: $14.8 billion (FY 2024).
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Cornell University: $10.7 billion (FY 2023).
Dartmouth College: $8.3 billion (FY 2023).
Brown University: $7.2 billion (FY 2023; reported as $6.6 billion in FY 2023 after a 12.7% return).
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In theory but in reality? The government is made up of individuals who all have their own self interests and agendas.
Set by government whim. The government shouldn’t be in the business of regulating thought. The idea that the government is going to protect Western values by doing the opposite of those values is… what’s the word for that?…
State colleges get government funding so will they be next for the thought police?
Ok. Before we start our dick measuring in the subject of sophistry, lets first consider this:
To BE better, one has to DO better.
So is what any of these universities have allowed to happen in line with DOING better?
Are we as a nation better off by not just allowing, but Paying Them to promote and protect antisemetic violence?
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God, I fucking hope so. These institutions have gone from being beautiful places of higher learning to the same fat, ugly, stupid pieces of shit that everybody complains generational welfare recipients are. And by the same means. Public dollars.
That isn’t the only thing on the government hit list. They included anything they considered anti American.
Well, we’ll see. If Harvard as a university is as virtuous as it woild like to appear, it will quit whining about not receiving billions of public dollars and become a beacon of intellectual autonomy in a landscape littered with money sluts just as grossly craven and undignified as the people they claim to protect us from, With “us” being a very limited segment of society.
That would be a great way to differentiate itself from the others. A true bastion of free thought.
But what do I know? I’m a community college dropout. A true dudd of intelligence and academic accomplishment. Hell, I was even rejected for a pell grant back when criminal background was a disqualifier. Had to pay my own way instead. Can’t have people like me co-mingling with true academics now, can you?
If someone is using anti-semitic language I’m sure it’s okay as long as it’s not against the law?
Anti-American is just a nonsense word where you can clump anything to it. That’s what got my attention in the first place. I’m sure ypu guys have some definitions for it, but I’m sure it will vary, being open to misuse.
Generally this is typical power play. Academia is never value free, and different political groups are pulling the strings.
There are boundaries to freedom of speech. Primarily means and intention to carry out what is intended. Thats what makes the difference between an idle threat and a valid threat.
So the people inciting violence that have both means and intention of hurting/murdering the people they’re talking about are a legitimate concern.
