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NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
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#53The country born out of the scientific enlightenment is eagerly devolving back into medieval mindlessness.
For people despising the Muslim world, those people are working hard to reproduce their fate: going from the most enlightened place on earth to religious obscurantism.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing that Terence really wants to be surrounded by thinkers of his calibre. So he gravitated to the ivy league. Perhaps in the future there will be a new gravity well where these minds congregate?
That there should be only 8 places in the world where you can find elite thinkers, all located in the US, is such extreme American nationalism and straight up ignorant.
Stop and think about this rationally for a minute. A first-rate school needs to have an American football team. Otherwise it's basically not in any league.
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#55So much for freedom of speech in US Universities. Israel dictates what is forbidden/permitted on US campuses now?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
When has a dictatorship ever cared about public opinion?
When setting repressive measure to mute any opposition and skyrocketing the budget of their personal security agaisnt all raising threats?
Remember, dictators are never wrong. They can only ever double down.
It's why they are so destructive.
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#57Public support for Israel is steadily falling; this poll was published just a couple of days ago https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-militar... and other G7 countries are moving to recognise Palestine. So will the administration's push to use pro-Israel reasons to censure and penalise the universities steadily get out of touch with what the public want and sympathise with?
Antisemitism is just an excuse for these actions against universities, it's a pretext. Not a particularly believable one anyway, but that doesn't seem to matter. The Trump administration is punishing institutions that disagree with it, or that it dislikes for some reason.
MAGA is heavily antisemitic, you absolutely right that this is pretext. They would have picked something else, this is just the best one at the time.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing that Terence really wants to be surrounded by thinkers of his calibre. So he gravitated to the ivy league. Perhaps in the future there will be a new gravity well where these minds congregate?
That there should be only 8 places in the world where you can find elite thinkers, all located in the US, is such extreme American nationalism and straight up ignorant.
That's not what the person said. Give a little bit of the benefit of the doubt when interpreting posts. Using the context of a person who grew up and was educated in the Anglosphere. Obviously the ivy league is going to be one of the more attractive options for finding a larger group of elite mathematical researchers. They have a ton of funding compared to most places and draw in many other brilliant people from around the world. That doesn't mean there's no elite thinkers anywhere else, just that it's inevitably going to be a strong contender for where a very bright person looking for that kind of environment would consider.
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#60Hopefully Terence will be able to continue his research in France, we would be more than happy to welcome him!