Here’s my deal: didn’t Trump already take money from Columbia? Are they scared he’s going to take more? Do they actually feel that they will have to shut down if they lose four years of federal funding? Is that feeling true?
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jon ben-menachem
Columbia's Provost evidently sent this message to faculty forbidding them from moving classes offline or canceling them amid ICE activity on campus.
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But I wouldn’t want to work with anyone in leadership at Columbia
But I don’t trust the government to conduct purges in a way that isn’t reactionary
It would be slow and could give an accounting of who did what, but I’d be leery of power to enforce firings etc
- yes,
- not exactly but still very very grim, and
- absolutely possible
(Do NOT read this as support or excuse for anything they've done or are doing, if anything the opposite)