Serious question - in the history of universities in the US

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4. Good question, I think it's about DEI

White people's history.

But that history includes the Alien & Sedition Acts which suppressed dissent, and eventually helped end impressment of American sailors on English and French ships.

Different strains of Puritanism were afoot in New England when Harvard was formed. Clergy probably had a hand in curriculum. Whether that included colonial governors or the British crown, I have no idea.

These right wing loons want to think pure thoughts, their own pure thoughts, and think everyone should think the same as them. So they are very disturbed when facts or logic don't fit their mental schemes. Their scripts are sacrosanct. They are OK with whatever means are used to achieve their goals, including using the power of the federal government to suppress dissent, to sanitize curriculum and scholars, to eradicate free-thinkers.

That's what it's like in fox news suburbs too. The Fairy News Mother comes out and circulates, telling all the wishy-washy neighbors the news, what to think, what church to attend. THis is about the 5th revival wave in American history.