It's no surprise that "Chuan Jianguo" (Trump), he's going to make a big move, and from now on, the whole of America will be filled with anti-intellectualism
September 29th news: The White House is studying a plan to change the way research funding is allocated, giving an advantage to institutions that strictly adhere to merit-based rather than ethnic factors in admissions and hiring.
The report cited a White House official as saying that this adjustment aims to promote universities to prioritize the values and policies of the Trump administration in admissions and employment, rather than based on race, ethnicity, and other diversity principles.
In other words, those who demonstrate sufficient loyalty in institutional design and practice will receive the favor of federal grants.
This means that academic funding is no longer solely determined by research achievements and academic potential, but by political standards.
This approach is more like political screening than educational reform.
Trump officially claims to support merit-based admissions, but actually wants to establish a funding system centered on policy loyalty.
It is not about eliminating discrimination, but about establishing ideological correctness criteria in another way.
The direct consequence of this approach is to further divide the already fragmented educational ecosystem. Some institutions will be forced to conform for survival, while others that uphold progressiveness and liberalism will face financial pressure.
In the long run, such a policy will gradually cultivate a new loyalist hierarchy.
Funds and resources will concentrate on pro-Trump educational institutions. These institutions' students and researchers, who have a natural political bias, will enter the government, think tanks, and corporations, forming a stable supply chain.
The logic of this mechanism is similar to the loyalty reviews during the Cold War, just wrapped in a different package.
It turns academia and education into an extension of politics, pushing universities, which should emphasize rationality and critical thinking, towards anti-intellectualism and instrumentalization.
Once this trend becomes entrenched, trust in professional expertise and scientific research in American society will be eroded, and loyalty will take precedence over facts in public policy, while anti-intellectualism will take precedence over rationality.
With the decline of American technology, Trump has made a big mistake again, it seems he's about to send America away completely.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1844578710115336/
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