Columbia University on Friday gave into demands from the Trump administration when it agreed to a sweeping set of changes in order to restore $400 million in federal funding suspended earlier this month, according to media reports.The university’s changes include new powers for police to arrest stud...
It’s worth keeping in mind that the people who made this decision at Columbia are, themselves, wealthy. They are behaving as wealthy people do–they only respond to power, they only care about power, and they will do ANYTHING to maintain power.
It’s never about non-monetary things with wealthy people. They don’t care about other people, even each other, or about high-falutin’ things like academic freedom or free inquiry or free speech because unless those things bring them more power, more money.
They will sacrifice everything, anything, and anyone to maintain their status and they will ALWAYS bend the knee to anyone with more power, more capital, than they have. They have no investment otherwise. You can’t keep your power if you have any focus other than your own power.
Nothing run by wealthy people is ever safe for the rest of us.