Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy – not complete
This afternoon:
JD Vance @JDVance
There is an extraordinary “reproducibility crisis” in the sciences, particularly in biology, where most published papers fail to replicate.
Most universities have massive bureaucracies that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption.
The voting patterns of university professors are so one-sided that they look like the election results of North Korea.
And on top of all of this, many universities explicitly engage in racial discrimination (mostly against whites and asians) that violates the civil rights laws of this country.
Our universities could see the policies of the Trump administration as a necessary corrective to these problems, change their policies, and work with the administration to reform.
Or, they could yell “fascism” at basic democratic accountability and drift further into irrelevance.
3:08 PM · May 24, 2025
Fascist pig. Clown.
“….The voting patterns of university professors are so one-sided that they look like the election results of North Korea….”
‘We fell in love’ – Trump swoons over letters from North Korea’s Kim
By Roberta Rampton
September 29, 201811:34 PM CDT
[….]
“I was really being tough – and so was he. And we would go back and forth,” Trump told a rally in West Virginia.
“And then we fell in love, okay? No, really – he wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters,” he said.
[….]
That was then, apparently.
Reality:
The enrolled student population at University of Missouri-Columbia [2023] is 76.3% White, 5.41% Hispanic or Latino, 5.26% Black or African American, 3.97% Two or More Races, 2.93% Asian, 0.171% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.0806% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
The enrolled student population at University of Central Missouri [2023] is 54.8% White, 5.33% Black or African American, 3.89% Hispanic or Latino, 3.3% Two or More Races, 0.954% Asian, 0.305% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.102% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
The enrolled student population at Saint Louis University [2023] is 53.4% White, 9.14% Asian, 6.96% Black or African American, 6.18% Hispanic or Latino, 3.91% Two or More Races, 0.134% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.0233% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
The enrolled student population at Ohio State University-Main Campus [2023] is 59.9% White, 9.31% Asian, 7.67% Black or African American, 5.72% Hispanic or Latino, 4.35% Two or More Races, 0.0616% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.04% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
The enrolled student population at University of Cincinnati-Main Campus [2023] is 64.8% White, 8.3% Black or African American, 5.53% Asian, 4.72% Hispanic or Latino, 4.07% Two or More Races, 0.108% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.0761% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
The enrolled student population at University of Arizona [2023] is 45.3% White, 25.3% Hispanic or Latino, 5.35% Asian, 4.66% Two or More Races, 4.1% Black or African American, 1.53% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.209% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
The enrolled student population at Brigham Young University [2023] is 80% White, 8.01% Hispanic or Latino, 4.28% Two or More Races, 1.73% Asian, 0.616% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders, 0.402% Black or African American, and 0.194% American Indian or Alaska Native.
The enrolled student population at University of Southern California [2023]is 23.3% White, 19.9% Asian, 15.9% Hispanic or Latino, 6.1% Black or African American, 4.17% Two or More Races, 0.187% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders, and 0.161% American Indian or Alaska Native.
The enrolled student population at Yale University [2023] is 33% White, 16.7% Asian, 12% Hispanic or Latino, 7.17% Black or African American, 5.48% Two or More Races, 0.318% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.119% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
The enrolled student population at Harvard University [2023] is 32.6% White, 14.8% Asian, 9.23% Hispanic or Latino, 6.44% Black or African American, 4.3% Two or More Races, 0.207% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.109% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.
Right wingnut resentment in search of a problem. What else is new?
Why is higher education a target?
The Growing Partisan Divide in Views of Higher Education
By Kim Parker
August 19, 2019
[….] A new Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on the way things are going in the country these days. About four-in-ten (38%) say they are having a negative impact – up from 26% in 2012.
The share of Americans saying colleges and universities have a negative effect has increased by 12 percentage points since 2012. The increase in negative views has come almost entirely from Republicans and independents who lean Republican. From 2015 to 2019, the share saying colleges have a negative effect on the country went from 37% to 59% among this group. Over that same period, the views of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic have remained largely stable and overwhelmingly positive.
Only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on the way things are going in the country these days.
Gallup found a similar shift in views about higher education. Between 2015 and 2018, the share of Americans saying they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in higher education dropped from 57% to 48%, and the falloff was greater among Republicans (from 56% to 39%) than among Democrats (68% to 62%).
[….]
“….The increase in negative views has come almost entirely from Republicans and independents who lean Republican….”
They have a plan.
Who benefits?
