Heritage's Kevin Roberts calls for the federal government to seize university endowments unless they “end the implementation of the woke mind virus”
Roberts: “Unless Harvard wants to stop living off the public dole, it would be perfectly appropriate”
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From the November 27, 2024, edition of UnHerd, streamed on YouTube
FREDDIE SAYER (HOST): Ivy League colleges. You don't have many nice words to say about the Ivy League schools.
KEVIN ROBERTS (HERITAGE FOUNDATION): Very few.
SAYER: You're very uncompromising about that. It's not that they need radical reform and being turned upside down. You say in terms that you think they should be destroyed.
ROBERTS: I say that unless they end the implementation of the woke mind virus, and if they continue to live off the teats of government -- through research grants, through participating in Title IV federal student loans and grants -- then it's perfectly appropriate, as the Vice President-elect said in his senatorial campaign, for the federal government to seize their endowments. Because they are using that money to fund nonsense. Actually, to empower the Chinese Communist Party's infiltration of our institutions, which is yet another problem that motivates my aggressiveness. And thirdly, educational attainment at those colleges -- those colleges in particular has gone down.
SAYER: So what the federal government, in this scenario, would seize the entire endowment of a college like Harvard University, for example?
ROBERTS: Unless Harvard wants to stop living off the public dole, it would be perfectly appropriate.