Vance compares Harvard to North Korea as he takes aim at school’s ‘ideological diversity’

Vice President JD Vance accused Harvard University of having a deficiency of "ideological diversity," comparing the world instauration to North Korea amid the Trump administration’s continuing battle against the school. 

Vance said Tuesday that helium estimated, without evidence, that "probably" 95% of Harvard’s module voted for erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris successful the 2024 election, and said that universities person go these "almost quasi-theocratic, oregon quasi-totalitarian societies."

"Right. Very brilliant. Kamala Harris, of course," Vance said astatine the American Compass day gala successful Washington. "But if you inquire yourself a overseas election, a overseas country's election, you accidental 80% of the radical voted for 1 candidate, you would say, 'Oh, that's benignant of weird, right? That's like, not a ace steadfast democracy.' If you said, 'Oh, 95% of radical voted for 1 party's candidate,' you would say, 'That's North Korea, right… That is intolerable successful a existent spot of escaped speech for that to happen.'" 

Harvard did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital. 

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The Trump medication has been astatine likelihood with Harvard arsenic it’s pushed for the world instauration to instal changes to its governance and admissions process successful effect to incidents of bias connected field targeting Jewish students since October 2023. 

But Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said successful April that the Trump medication included further requests for betterment that spell beyond addressing antisemitism connected campus, and the instauration would not comply due to the fact that the demands were unconstitutional.

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Specifically, Garber said the caller requests "direct governmental regularisation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ astatine Harvard," including auditing viewpoints of students, module and unit members connected campus, and eliminating each diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices and initiatives astatine Harvard. 

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"It makes wide that the volition is not to enactment with america to code antisemitism successful a cooperative and constructive manner," Garber wrote successful an April letter. "We person informed the medication done our ineligible counsel that we volition not judge their projected agreement."

Since then, the Trump medication has warned it volition propulsion each national backing from the school, amounting to a full of $100 cardinal successful contracts. That's connected apical of the $3.2 cardinal successful grants and contracts the medication has antecedently frozen. 

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