Not really. Religion and race are protected classes. The analogue would be a police force in the South refusing to provide names of officers with a track record of racial discrimination complaints.
Whether this is authoritarian depends on what comes next.
The same institution that pretends to have "such a strong protest culture".
The suppression of free speech is quite funny to see, from those who claim to be such proponents of it. Of course, it's not free speech when it bothers my political sensibilities, it's only free speech when I'm the one being censored, not when I do the censoring.
The alternative seems to be that the Trump admin directs the State Dept to revoke all student visas from UC Berkeley, and they lose half their student body (and a good number of faculty) overnight.
Which is, of course, flat out unacceptable on many levels.
However; it seems to me some of these institutions could band together and pool resources both legal, financial, and otherwise to give something of a stronger defense than one alone.
Rock and a hard place certainly.
But there has to be something that can be done, albeit even in the United States broken systems of law, both constitutional and otherwise, to fight off this assault. Anything other than bending the knee and enabling further assaults on higher-education and/or the US democracy.
All major universities public and private are heavily dependent on federal dollars in numerous ways.
The Fed has tremendous financial and regulatory power over any institution of any size.
Large corporations have been bending the knee for the same reasons. I highly doubt Tim Cook is a huge Trump fan but he was right there to kiss ass on day one. That’s because Trump could, with the stroke of a pen, decimate Apple’s business by destroying its global supply chain.
Actual conservatives and actual libertarians were warning about growing Federal power for decades and decades and they had a point. Nobody listened of course.
Judith Butler, a world-renown scholar who is also Jewish, is included in list of those accused of antisemitism.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-09-13/ty-article/.premi...
https://archive.is/GITHJ
We all know it’s not actually for antisemitism.
Einstein and Hannah Arendt would also be on this list. They were staunch anti-fascists
It would seem that Berkeley didn't come up with these names on their own, they were a part of complaints that the government demanded info on?
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> doesn't this smell like fascism?
Not really. Religion and race are protected classes. The analogue would be a police force in the South refusing to provide names of officers with a track record of racial discrimination complaints.
Whether this is authoritarian depends on what comes next.
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Sort of OT, but.
Orwell would say, that depends:
https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/e...
(He also gave names of leftists to government when they asked)
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I think it does matter how this came about.
https://archive.ph/QasXD
The same institution that pretends to have "such a strong protest culture".
The suppression of free speech is quite funny to see, from those who claim to be such proponents of it. Of course, it's not free speech when it bothers my political sensibilities, it's only free speech when I'm the one being censored, not when I do the censoring.
isn’t it intolerable to be controlled by that awful, murderous, black hole of country? How do you put up with this?
Sad to see such a great and distinguished institution 'bend the knee' to the Pumpkin Spice Palpatine in this manner.
UC Berkeley used to have such fight in it.
They started dying quite some time ago, at least as early as when they hired John Yoo.
The alternative seems to be that the Trump admin directs the State Dept to revoke all student visas from UC Berkeley, and they lose half their student body (and a good number of faculty) overnight.
Which is, of course, flat out unacceptable on many levels.
However; it seems to me some of these institutions could band together and pool resources both legal, financial, and otherwise to give something of a stronger defense than one alone.
Rock and a hard place certainly.
But there has to be something that can be done, albeit even in the United States broken systems of law, both constitutional and otherwise, to fight off this assault. Anything other than bending the knee and enabling further assaults on higher-education and/or the US democracy.
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What, you think they’re going to stop here? They’re going to keep pushing and pushing and pushing — then revoke the visas anyway out of spite.
Don’t give an inch and litigate. That is the only path forward.
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All major universities public and private are heavily dependent on federal dollars in numerous ways.
The Fed has tremendous financial and regulatory power over any institution of any size.
Large corporations have been bending the knee for the same reasons. I highly doubt Tim Cook is a huge Trump fan but he was right there to kiss ass on day one. That’s because Trump could, with the stroke of a pen, decimate Apple’s business by destroying its global supply chain.
Actual conservatives and actual libertarians were warning about growing Federal power for decades and decades and they had a point. Nobody listened of course.