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Harvard University loses student and exchange visitor program certification for pro-terrorist conduct

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  1. l_one
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    What utter horseshit. Good on Harvard for not just rolling over and giving the trump regime whatever they ask for.

    What utter horseshit. Good on Harvard for not just rolling over and giving the trump regime whatever they ask for.

    28 votes
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    TonesTones
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    The Trump administration strikes their newest blow in their war against higher education. I don’t know about the legality of this decision, but it seems illegal to me. Something tells me the...

    The Trump administration strikes their newest blow in their war against higher education.

    I don’t know about the legality of this decision, but it seems illegal to me.

    Something tells me the students will be deported regardless of what the courts decide.

    12 votes
    1. DefinitelyNotAFae
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      I am genuinely concerned the next response will be ICE rolling up on Harvard and grabbing everyone (probably with racial bias) who's an international student. And then do it again. And again. You...

      I am genuinely concerned the next response will be ICE rolling up on Harvard and grabbing everyone (probably with racial bias) who's an international student. And then do it again. And again. You cut the international students by virtue of no one wanting to attend if they're going to be harassed, arrested, and held even if they are not deported immediately.

      6 votes
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    Sodliddesu
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    Y'all remember when Bush said "You're either with us or your with the terrorists"?

    Y'all remember when Bush said "You're either with us or your with the terrorists"?

    8 votes
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      skybrian
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      Not sure what your point is. Did either Bush attack universities like this?

      Not sure what your point is. Did either Bush attack universities like this?

      2 votes
      1. vord
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        Well, the big discussion point at the time was how this sort of rhetoric was going to be misused to eliminate political compromise and declare anything politically inconvenient 'a terrorist plot.'...

        Well, the big discussion point at the time was how this sort of rhetoric was going to be misused to eliminate political compromise and declare anything politically inconvenient 'a terrorist plot.' And use it as a mechanism to shutdown critics. That line was also used to paint anti-war protestors as enemies.

        Looking back 24 years later, I think we can safely say that came to pass.

        W Bush took the more traditional attack on education: Stripping funds from poor schools on the premise of meritocracy and funneling tax dollars into privately owned (and religious) schools.

        Thankfully Democrats had spines back then and stopped the worst of the defunding at the time.

        16 votes