Radical Anti-American, Anti-Israel Profs Are Ruining Funding For Non-Political Scientists
“The scientists who are going to lose their funding, they shouldn’t be angry at Donald Trump, and they shouldn’t be angry at your average citizen who doesn’t want to pay for this. They should be angry at the professors, the small number of professors who are ruining it for them by leading these riots and building takeovers.”
I appeared tonight on the Laura Ingraham show to talk about the Cornell funding freeze, and why the public is rebelling against funding “woke” universities.
I didn’t have a lot of time because they were running late and we were up against a hard break, but I did get to make two points that are important to me: The the protests are as much anti-American as they are anti-Israel, and the science professors losing funding should be angry not at Trump or the public, but at the radical professors on campus who have instigated a lot of the problems and who are ruining it for them.
“A lot of the funding goes for specific research projects, and some of them are worthy and some of them are not. The problem is you’re subsidizing campuses who have really lost touch with the population, have lost touch with the [American] people, because the polling shows that trust in higher education is at all time lows.
You have very, people call it woke, but you can call it anti-American. And people should not think this is really an Israel related or an antisemitism related problem. Those are symptoms of a greater problem. Every time they burn an Israeli flag, they burn an American flag, and people are disgusted with it. And the universities have refused to address the issue.
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Well, it’s absolutely true at the faculty level. It’s become a monoculture on campuses, including at Cornell, of liberal to left, to extreme left. And people don’t want that.
A lot of the faculty members have been instigating these protests, have been instigating these riots, have been supporting them and defending them.
And really the ones who are going to suffer are the faculty who don’t engage in this. The scientists who are going to lose their funding, they shouldn’t be angry at Donald Trump, and they shouldn’t be angry at your average citizen who doesn’t want to pay for this. They should be angry at the professors, the small number of professors who are ruining it for them by leading these riots and building takeovers.”
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Absolutely. However, they will never stop. It’s up to the trustees to do something because they admin won’t.
The American taxpayer needs a respite from having to pay universities and colleges money so their goons can protest.
Let the MUDSLIME and their anti Israel cronies pay their own way into hatred.
The academics need to suffer, and perhaps they can learn to shovel shit in a barn. All of them need to be unemployed and colleges and universities shuttered.
Available funds should be directed to to hard science, math, while those who are causing problems are defunded.
The scientists let it happen in their midst. Why? It’s just a loud minority. Or is it? Is it fair to pretend they are simply objective? That it comes to losing funding says a lot about the rot.
Let’s be honest here. A lot of the hard science faculty is as radically left as the social scientists or those in the humanities. Polling data has demonstrated this repeatedly.
Covid stupidity and gender wierdness – hard science proponents. Man made climate change – hard science. Plenty of socialists/marxists among the hard science and engineering faculty. After all they reside within the same rarified bubble isolated from the real world and real world consequences.
Yes. My late uncle was a geology professor at Columbia, specializing in tree ring research. He was a Democrat, and this was before the radical marxism of today. A lot of scientists are atrracted to marxism because they think they can scientifically manage society.
Busy time of year for Suburban Farm Guy. Would like to weigh in with a pithy comment or two, but those lettuces aren’t going to plant themselves. Tired out. But what a great time to be alive!
Woke is broke and a joke. OK, Marxists will be with us forever, like the poor but I for one don’t give a rat’s.
G’night all!
Poor Democrat victims.
Don’t be a victim. Or a Democrat, as if there is a distinction.
Back when there was Bell Labs doing military work, loosely related research was part of the cost of the cost-plus-10% contract. The military decided they wanted more competition and Bell Labs decided to get out of military work, and that was that. MCI and history.
Grad school was always like this–whoever controls the funding committee, picks and chooses the winners, regardless of actual quality.
The University system, if it did not exist and you described the actual need for a whole new design, the new creation would look NOTHING like it does today. It is time for a radical tear down and rebuild, better that be proactive than forced. The Post Office, Military, Primary & Secondary education also would look nothing like they do,
I agree to a certain point. The argument about the small, loud, violent minority being to blame doesn’t answer the question of who stood by and allowed it. The Univ leadership; Presidents, Deans and Boards that threw their lot in with the radicals out of agreement or stood aside out of fear or disinterest have to be held accountable.
I think this blurb doesn’t connect the dots adequately. Here’s the complete logic train:
The woke crowd is parasitic. Generating no revenue, it can only feed from the revenue brought in by others. Much of that is federal dollars. Those dollars come mainly as research grants. Part of those grants comes under the heading of “indirect costs,” which are nominally monies for facilities and services necessary to maintain, say, a chemistry or physics lab. In some places, those costs can run to over half the amount of the direct costs.
But those “indirect cost” dollars are fungible. A university can use them any way they please once they’re in the till. One way they’re used is to fund other departments, like feminist studies, Arab studies, alphabet studies. These bring in no real income and have no real application outside of academia.
And at least unconsciously recognizing that they are irrelevant people, they scream for their moments in the spotlight. Since they can’t do it honestly, they turn to extremes, as noted in the article. The get seen, alright.
But now the game is exposed and people elected a game-changer who is actually a game-ender. The country is sick and tired of paying for bullshit. Let them either get honest jobs somewhere, or, if one may dare to coin, let them eat cake.
Why the heck should *any* colleges be getting my tax money???? Most of them have millions, if not billions, stashed away.
The woke professors won’t stop either. Sh^tlibs always, always double down.
its not the job of the tax payer to fund any of this UNLESS its a direct issue for the military
so when it comes to diseases etc
its the pharma who does /should foot alllll the bills
and of course anyone who wants to voluntarily contribute ,,like many do
Pharma will only work on what makes money for them. That;s why there are many ED drugs and very few new antibiotics.
And that’s with the current funding model that’s supposed to support great research. Remember when they were starting to 3-d print organs, starting with the liver because it has a simple structure? How many “hopeless” diabetics could be cured if this really works out? Just install a new liver from the factory and get a new lease on life. What happened to that research?
So, the current funding model is wasting most of the money it gets, and it would be better to stop it, I mean stop. Start again from zero. A son recently went thru undergrad at Cornell and the bio faculty were the weirdest cats he saw there. Not nicely weird either. Frankly a bunch of bitter med school rejects, with funding now by Qatar at least in the Biomedical Engineering department. This whole system needs to be rethought, and the way to start is to stop paying for what exists.
The author is naive or just wrong. It’s not a small minority. It’s nearly every single faculty member. They’ve all promoted Jew hatred, amplified the hysterics of climate change and encouraged students to be emotionally overwrought. A student is 80x more likely to be instructed by a Marxist than a conservative on any college campus. Faculty hire other faculty which means they’re all in on it. No department hires conservative faculty. Most of academia is rotten and should be gutted.
Don’t cry for the hard science faculties losing research funding at these uber-woke unis. They too are participants, not just in the Jewhate but in promoting climate hysteria and gender nonsense.
100% of them? Probably not, but they are acting like those Good Germans who did not personally participate in the atrocities. It is they who must stand up if wokeist culture on campus is to be changed and not just hidden.
Periodic spasms of insufferable arrogance in the academic culture are nothing new, and we are long overdue for another reckoning. They often climax in some form of Gotterdammerung that expels the more odious politics for a while, so this should be fun to watch!
It’s a large number of professors. The whole university was at least complicit and in many cases actively encouraging this garbage. It was (maybe still is) OK to be leftist, not to be rightist or even assertively centrist.
I think the assertively centrist view is even hard to defend now. The left deserves to have its “rights” ignored for a while as punishment for its many sins.
And universities? Maybe they should go thru reorganization like Chapter 11. Or a DOGE audit. A way to clear out the deadwood and zero-base things. Incremental reform, as Prof. Jacobson and others have noted, would be too slow, would be thwarted and would continue to deliver rewards for years to those who deserve punishment and shame. Cut too much rather than too little, you can probably hire back later. What about individuals unfairly affected? That’s never mattered in most of the world, not our problem.
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