What happened: Liberals and conservatives are seizing on Harvard University’s showdown with the Trump administration to level false charges advancing their respective agendas. From the left, social media users are praising the Ivy League school for supposedly launching a free course open to the public with instructions on “how to recognize a dictatorship.” And from the right, users claim that the school has embarked on a campaign to “blacklist” all Trump supporters.
Both claims are bogus.
Context: Since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, he has repeatedly attacked Harvard, claiming it fosters antisemitism and is run by “Leftist dopes” who teach “Hate and Stupidity.”
On April 11, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to the school, threatening to withhold funding if the university did not agree to demands including subjecting its courses to viewpoint diversity audits, no longer “admitting students hostile to the American values,” and immediately ending all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Harvard responded by filing a suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, claiming First Amendment violations.
On May 22, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to Harvard saying the government was revoking the school’s ability to enroll international students. Harvard sued, again alleging that the Trump administration was infringing on its First Amendment rights.
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