Prof Claims Trump’s Demands of Universities ‘Echo’ Hitler’s and Stalin’s
“may mark the beginning of the end of [universities’] academic independence”
Right. The guy who is withholding funds to schools unless they stop antisemitism on campus is just like Hitler. How stupid do you have to be to think this?
The College Fix reports:
Professor: Trump’s demands of universities ‘echo’ Hitler’s and Stalin’s
The latest authoritarian hyperbole out of academia comes from an Arizona State University “teaching and learning innovation” professor and dean.
In The Conversation, Iveta Silova chides President Trump’s efforts to curb antisemitism and DEI on American campuses, claiming “many” universities are “widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech.”
Silova (pictured), “a scholar of comparative and international education,” says the president’s strategy of pressuring universities has “a few historical parallels” … which just happen to include Nazi Germany and Stalin’s USSR.
In the former, Silova says universities “adapted” to the Nazis’ takeover of government, and once Hitler had control he “moved swiftly to purge academic institutions of Jews and political opponents” through such means as the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.”
This law required the termination of Jewish and “non-Aryan” professors.
A good number of academics were “eager to comply” with the Führer’s demands, according to Silova: “Each decision – each erased name, each revised syllabus, each closed program and department – was framed as necessary, even patriotic.”
Similar things occurred under Russia’s Bolsheviks:
In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system.
After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Bolsheviks oscillated between wanting to abolish universities as “feudal relics” and repurposing them to serve a socialist state […] Ultimately, they chose the latter, remaking universities as instruments of ideological education and technical training, tightly aligned with Marxist-Leninist goals.
Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on conformity to official doctrine. Dissenting scholars were purged or exiled, history was rewritten to glorify the Communist Party, and entire disciplines such as genetics were reshaped to fit political orthodoxy.
Silova claims Trump is “echoing” these notorious authoritarians and his actions “may mark the beginning of the end of [universities’] academic independence.”
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>Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on conformity to official doctrine. Dissenting scholars were purged or exiled, history was rewritten to glorify the Communist Party, and entire disciplines such as genetics were reshaped to fit political orthodoxy.
Good thing nothing like that’s been happening in America over the last couple of decades.
Probably has a doctorate in education and likes to be called Dr Iveta just like Dr Jill.
“[Trump’s actions] may mark the beginning of the end of [universities’] academic independence”
We’re GIVING you your independence, you dummkopf.
Now root, hog… or die.
Dr Iveta Silova
Ph.D. Comparative Education and History/Political Science (with distinction), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University 2002
She supervises PhD students undertaking research in the areas of globalization and education borrowing; post-socialist transformations; post-colonialism, decolonial studies, and border-thinking…as well ecofeminism and environmental sustainability.
Prior to her academic career in the U.S., she worked as an education researcher and adviser with various international organizations, including UNICEF, UNESCO, USAID, and the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations.
So, a professional useless person on the far radical left angry Trump blew the whistle on her former money machine at USAID
We have met the enemy and this is her.
Open Society Institute
Karl Popper, author of “The Open Society and its Enemies”. George Soros, one of Popper’s grad students. The “Postwar Consensus” that National Socialist Germany arose because of “authoritarianism”, which we now have to eliminate – using authoritarian methods, such as political correctness, cancel culture, censorship, lawfare, and Antifa thugs.
Yes, Dr. Silova sounds perfect.
“Echo” is a word that can cover a lot of ground.
And carry heavy loads. Of something.
At one point in puberty, Hitler started to grow facial hair. I know Trump goes clean shaven but under there he is hiding stubble…clearly, they are clones.
Was he born is Brazil?
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