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Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores

(christinapagel.substack.com)
235 points nickcotter | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 08:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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mesk ◴[29 Mar 25 10:11 UTC] No.43514243[source]▶
USA, the land of unlimited possibilities...of how to get detained without a process...for expressing opinions...by the government repating that we have finally free speach and the dark ages are gone...while revisiting history to avoid dangerous words such as a 'women'...

And I've thought our wana-be-authorian politicians are greates idiots of all, but there seems to be running some kind of global world competion to find them and let them ruin their countries.

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darkwater ◴[29 Mar 25 11:40 UTC] No.43514688[source]▶
> while revisiting history to avoid dangerous words such as a 'women'...

What happened? I missed that (I'm not ironic, I would really like to know what else they did).

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fabian2k ◴[29 Mar 25 11:42 UTC] No.43514700[source]▶
I suspect this refers to the list of words that are used to filter out and likely cancel or block various grants. Those words are about what the current US government considers DEI, but they are ridiculously broad and include words like "woman".
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1. rurp ◴[30 Mar 25 04:28 UTC] No.43521344[source]▶
Projects are being killed across the government for exactly this reason. If anything it's even dumber than it sounds. If any word in a project or department title string matches a list of common terms it can get killed with zero investigation or recourse. Billions of dollars worth of research and work have already been destroyed in this way and it's only getting worse.