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Re: Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

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Post by Braxton1980 » Tue, May 20, 2025, 6:32 AM UTC

landl0rd wrote: post #94

Braxton1980 wrote: post #83

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>Defense is also an enumerated power of the feds and welfare is not. Every federal social program is backed by a law giving the federal government that power. The Stafford act and social security act for example. >Defense must be handled at the national welfare Why can't defense be per state? If the answer is it's not efficient or coordination then the same could be said for any social program >My "general rule" is t…

The law purports to give the feds that power. I believe the Constitution has been grossly twisted to federalize that which the feds have no authority to do. Social welfare is one of those things. Defense per-state would disrupt the concept of a nation and the feds' ability to operate internationally. This is the same as borders and foreign policy. If anything localities are better able to understand the needs of thei…

>I have this view about small fed because I do not trust government. Any government.

But

>The damage a local government can do is necessarily less and the layers of government above it that can check that damage are more

Re: Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

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Post by ethbr1 » Tue, May 20, 2025, 6:52 PM UTC

spwa4 wrote: post #149

ethbr1 wrote: post #141

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holds up mirror If you're ready to have a conversation, I'm game. If you want to pathos-bait (or even worse, can't tell that you're doing it), then I've got more interesting people to talk to.

Anyone who reads your initial comment will agree that EVERY point you made boils down to "this happened, but it's a Jewish conspiracy". You barely mention Palestinians.

You realize the government of Israel and the Jewish people are two distinct things, right?

Re: Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

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Post by firesteelrain » Wed, May 21, 2025, 2:04 AM UTC

dunekid wrote: post #145

firesteelrain wrote: post #113

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“ Palestinians didn't do the holocaust. On the contrary, they took Jewish people in - on condition that no one would try and form an ethno-state” Before World War II, the land was British Mandate Palestine, which was previously part of the Ottoman Empire. It was a land with a mixed population and growing nationalist movements among both Jews and Arabs. Balfour Declaration 1917 “His Majesty's Government view with favo…

>War broke out and in 1948, several Arab states attacked. Please do mention the Dalet Plan, the massacres of the Palestinians by Zionists, and how the war broke out. Also killing UN mediators by Zionists would something to complete the history lesson, rather than Palestinians rejected. Wow, who would have thought people would reject taking their land and giving it to somebody else! And also mention the rejection by Z…

Your response has some factual things, questionable framing and rhetoric vs history. Please fact check and correct yourself on some of your points

Re: Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

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Post by firesteelrain » Fri, May 23, 2025, 11:45 AM UTC

Braxton1980 wrote: post #87

firesteelrain wrote: post #80

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The computer science professor isn’t some nobody either - long time faculty, graduated in 1968, former Dean. In the case of the curriculum, it suggests an institutional preference for particular ideological narratives Harvard selectively aligned with or tolerated specific activist ideologies while suppressing or distancing themselves from others For DEI (which is just rebranded now honestly), it suggests that Harvard…

>The computer science professor isn’t some nobody either - long time faculty, graduated in 1968, former Dean. That's nice "Although acknowledging his experiment’s limitations – “word frequency is an imperfect measure” The classes exist and he could have confirmed by attending them or checking course material. I was complaining about his lazy method It doesn't matter I said you proved that point

I came across the Harvard report from April that was just released. Notably, look at page 8 of 311 and the second paragraph

https://www.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FINAL-Har...