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Posted on 05/12/2025 4:28:49 AM PDT by george76
You and I have to pay more taxes so elite universities that willfully break the law discriminating against Jews, whites and Asians can get tax exemptions. It's a slap in the face.
Yet Harvard alum Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is trying to turn the tables, accusing the Trump administration of "weaponizing" the IRS to strip Harvard of its 501c3 tax exempt status.
Truth is, Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status because it's guilty of illegally allowing the civil rights of Jewish students to be trashed. The case against Harvard is a slam dunk.
Numerous other universities where Jewish students are persecuted, including Ivies like Columbia and Yale, should lose their exemptions too.
This isn't about making left-wing academia more balanced. Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code bars colleges and other organizations that enjoy tax-exempt status from engaging in "propaganda" or favoring political candidates, but the IRS has always turned a blind eye to campus leftism.
We may have to live with the reality that most universities are bastions of left-wing indoctrination. No one wants the IRS to bludgeon universities into conforming to the president's ideal of intellectual diversity. Under a future president, the hammer could swing the other way.
But calling on the IRS to stop subsidizing racial and religious discrimination is a moral imperative. It's also the agency's legal duty, according to Supreme Court precedent.
In 1983, the justices ruled that Bob Jones University's ban on interracial marriage violated the nation's "fundamental public policy" against racial discrimination in education. That case remains precedent today, though it has not been invoked in the last 40 years to strip another university of its tax-exempt status.
Now Harvard is guilty of fomenting blazing Jew-hatred through its curriculum and campus climate. The university has already confessed. A 500-page report in April admits to allowing a campus environment designed to "drive Israeli students (and Jewish students who feel connected to Israel) out of student life" and instruction that "normalizes" hatred of Jews and Israel.
A confession isn't enough.
There must be a penalty until the campus is shown to be hospitable to Jewish students.
If Harvard's 501c3 status is revoked, some donors will walk.
That's the price it should have to pay.
Former President Barack Obama, a Harvard alum, is dismissing the investigation into Harvard as a "ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom." Sorry, if Harvard were discriminating against Black students, or allowing nooses to be thrown over tree limbs, Obama would be joining a nationwide chorus of protest.
Discrimination against Jewish students is just as evil and illegal.
Alongside Schumer and Obama, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is also speaking out. It "staunchly opposes any governmental attempt to coerce educational institutions into ideological conformity."
Amen.
FIRE's concerns are legitimate. Any IRS investigation should be limited to stamping out illegal discrimination, not impinging on First Amendment rights or dictating the parameters of intellectual diversity.
As for President Donald Trump's role, he needs to back off and let the IRS do its job. Federal law (26 U.S. Code Section 7217) actually prohibits the president and other senior executive branch officials, except the Treasury secretary, from requesting the IRS audit anyone or any organization.
On Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that "We are going to be taking away Harvard's Tax Exempt Status. It's what they deserve!" That detracts from the open-and-shut case against the university. Zip it, Mr. President.
The IRS should not stop with Harvard. The Anti-Defamation League gives F grades to Princeton, Stanford and the State University of New York's Purchase and Rockland campuses for allowing rampant antisemitism. Columbia and Yale get Ds. Why should taxpayers support that?
The IRS should also go after reverse racial discrimination in university admissions. Since 2023, when the Supreme Court struck down racial preferences, many institutions are skirting the ruling.
The nonprofit Do No Harm has documented how numerous medical schools are still emphasizing racial diversity and discounting the academic skills that produce "clinical excellence." Pity the patients.
Quinnipiac University, the University of Maryland, the University of Chicago and Duke University openly brag about prioritizing race in medical school admissions -- never mind the raw deal they're giving qualified white and Asian applicants who want to be doctors.
The discrimination is revolting. Time to crack down. The best way is to revoke their tax exemptions. Money talks.
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I’ve been saying for a long time that discrimination won’t end until a college president is perp walked off campus for violating the civil rights of its students and applicants. Allowing Hamas terrorists to terrorize Jews is awful but white males, the original victims of college discrimination, must get justice too. Why do males make up only 40% of students on campus? Why are campus’ a hostile environment for white males? A simple reparation solution is to replace all foreign students with white males.
“if Harvard were discriminating against Black students, or allowing nooses to be thrown over tree limbs, Obama would be joining a nationwide chorus of protest.
“Discrimination against Jewish students is just as evil and illegal.”
these despicable rat parasites like Schumer and the rest need to be crushed into dust no mercy. They are accusing us of things they have done to us, no quarter. Leave no stone unturned
“Why do males make up only 40% of students on campus?”
The trades tend to offer a more reliable and lucrative career path for males.
Americans have kissed the Ivy Leaguers butts for way too long.
It is more “prestigious” to NOT have a degree from Harvard than to have one.
the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is also speaking out. It "staunchly opposes any governmental attempt to coerce educational institutions into ideological conformity."
Yet it is perfectly alright for the government of Qatar to force ideological conformity on Islam, Israel/Hamas and other Middle East issues. And this is occurring at universities throughout the country. It is a threat to national security and the future of Western civilization.
This foreign influence blindsides the West about the true nature of Islam and conflicts in the Middle East.
I am of the feeling that the university should have to make things right.
This might include tuition refunds for students deprived of an equal educational opportunity.
The author goes off the rails here. If the US government is to subsidize education, including the huge research grants we provide to these institutions, then intellectual "diversity," e.g. exposing to students to the great questions of society, history, and philosophy and the various great thinkers on those issues from whichever side, is exactly what the government should be pushing for. If we are not educating and informed society what is the whole point. Great ideas and great books aren't the "President's" ideal. They are the foundation of Western civilization.
So a future president couldn't under this rubrik swing it back the other way. The other way from academic freedom and exposing students to all sides of the argument is the present communist monotheism that presently controls the universities.
It should be remembered that it should be a general principle that innocents should not be harmed.
This applies to our actions as well as to the actions of Harvard and its human associates.
As the great Sonny Bono once said, illegal? That is against the law isn't it? These people are breaking the law and fining the institution is just punishing the customers, admittedly that includes beneficiaries of the criminal acts but still someone is breaking the law and should go to jail.
p.s. Don't hold your breath.
The question for consideration is why do companies in the education business receive tax exempt status to begin with?
The entire question of 501c3 status should be questioned and examined closely
Another example of Chuck Schumer, the fake Jew, actually enabling discrimination against Jews.
I’ll believe it when I see them in jail. There still are a lot of opportunities for the universities, prosecutors and judges to let them off the hook.
Today they've become a sick joke.
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