Columbia University has announced a series of new policies following President Trump’s revocation of $400 million in federal funding over campus protests.
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Not how any of this works. They had a choice between bowing down or closing down. Many other universities will soon get, and make, the same choice.
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There will be no return to pre-2025. Ever. The damage to all institutions and the entrenchment of the victorious billionaire class are too severe. I wish people would finally understand that. Be prepared to fight a literal civil war, you will not vote your way out of this.
They had a choice between filing a lawsuit and capitulating if they lose, or bowing down to king Trump.
They chose the latter.
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At first, I wrote a reply asking what tangible good a lawsuit would do. I wrote that Trump would ignore any ruling that was in Columbia’s favor.
I deleted it ten minutes later. No, a lawsuit may not do any tangible good, but I was missing the point. RESISTING is the point. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of speech is the point. Fighting fascism is the point.
Fuck Columbia. I hope they carry this shame for the rest of their existence.
If missing $400 million would have them shut down, what’s that $14 billion endowment for? Show? It accrued 11.5% last year. That’s three times what Trump was threatening to not give them
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