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Trump Threatens Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status After School's Rebuke
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- bediger4000 2y agoThis is extraordinarily unamerican.
- ActorNightly 2y agoThat ship has sailed in 2016, when we put a Russian asset in the White House.
- gibbitz 2y agoYup. No moderation on Facebook but straightforward censorship on schools. Welcome to our 3rd world autocracy.
- cs702 2y agoGenuine question: Should a government be able to revoke the tax-exempt status of a university because the university will not agree to give the government, first, the right to "audit" the viewpoints of students, professors, and administrators, and second, the right to "reduce the power" of certain students, professors, and administrators, targeted because of those viewpoints? The right to "audit" and "reduce the power" of students, professors, and administrators are only two of the government's demands. I must confess that it's not entirely clear to me what the government means by "audit" and "reduce the power." Here is the full list of government demands: https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/... Here is the university's response: https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/ https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-a... Judge for yourself.
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- xenospn 2y agoDepends on the kind of government.