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Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants

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280 points dargscisyhp | 1 comments | 02 Aug 25 06:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mehulashah ◴[02 Aug 25 09:19 UTC] No.44765977[source]▶
This is a tragedy. Our pre-eminence as a scientific and industrial powerhouse that really began post WWII is now disintegrating because of the actions of a few. The funding being pulled from Terence Tao and his institute without due process is not the start, it's merely one casualty among many that began at the start of this administration. This is like cutting one's nose to spite one's face.
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austhrow743 ◴[02 Aug 25 09:54 UTC] No.44766166[source]▶
Punishing urban intellectuals for being urban intellectuals appears to be a common theme in a lot of right wing American messaging and the Republican Party won the popular vote.

You can’t put this on a few. It’s the genuine desire of the American voter.

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smt88 ◴[02 Aug 25 10:23 UTC] No.44766345[source]▶
Few Americans pay enough attention to politics to expect this, and less than a third of the country voted for this regime anyway.
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1. teiferer ◴[03 Aug 25 06:28 UTC] No.44774516[source]▶
Not voting is willingly accepting whichever outcome is achieved by those who did vote. Therefore, a majority of the country either actively chose or willingly accepted the current regime.

Don't marginalize the responsibility of the people in the democratic process. It's too easy to just blame those in power. It's the people who gave them that power.