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Right-wing culture warriors develop formula to manipulate soft targets in high education

"No, Professors Are Not Brainwashing Their Students
Robert Reich Jan 2, 2024
[...]But facts, I have been reliably informed, don’t care about your feelings. And in this particular instance, the facts are clear. Yes, it is true that liberals dominate the academy. And yes, I agree that this is a problem. But the worst fears of conservatives — that liberal faculty are brainwashing their students — are simply not true. And we can prove it."

Related: Claudine Gay is ousted at Harvard
It sets a dangerous precedent of big-money intrusion
[...]I don’t know enough to address the charges of plagiarism against her, but it’s worth noting that all of them apparently came from the same source, via The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative online journal.
[,,,]Kenneth Griffin — who earned billions on Wall Street and has donated more than half a billion dollars to Harvard ($300 million this year alone, enough to get Harvard to name its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences after him) — was particularly enraged by a statement made by several Harvard student organizations shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack, holding Israel responsible.
P - Griffin called the head of the Harvard Corporation, Penny Pritzker, urging that Gay take a more forceful stand against these students.
P - William Ackman, another Harvard alumnus and major donor, who heads the giant hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, demanded that Harvard release a list of members of the student organizations behind the letter.
P - In a string of posts on X (formerly known as Twitter) Ackman said he wanted to ensure that he and other CEOs did not “inadvertently hire any of their members.”
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173548338 Reich Jan 2, 2024

MSNBC

Jan 3, 2024 #Harvard #highereducation #rightwing
Ali Velshi looks at the tactics used by right-wing activist Christopher Rufo to attack diversity, equity and inclusion programs
and equity philosophy generally in higher education, and the weakness he is able to exploit in mainstream
media organizations and university boards to manufacture political pressure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kasw172LqgI