Mit Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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MIT rejected a White House offer for special funding, sparking discussion on the implications of government funding for educational institutions and the potential for political influence.
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Can't conservative ideas compete in the Marketplace of Ideas without a boost from the government? What happened to absolute freedom of speech? Weren't we all broadly against censorship on campus just a few years ago? Why the about face?
"We don't have any problem with satire and sarcasm as such, but on a large public forum like HN, with everything a mile wide and an inch deep, they are nearly always associated with really low-quality discussion."
William F Buckley first got famous calling for professors at Yale to be fired for not being sufficiently conservative. And that trend has never let up.
Seriously, go down a list of traditionally conservative values. They mostly apply to the Democrats with the current Trumpist agenda being directly opposed!
The Republican party has bought into this backwards agenda hook, line, and sinker - supported by a cast of would-be business oligarchs who are eager to destroy our individual liberties as long as they might rule over the ruins. If there were anything conservative left about them, Trump would have been in prison after his first term of treasonous destruction.