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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Dr. Phil here again, and I want to talk to you about the real story. |
0:05.8 | And I think this is something that you're going to have to concentrate on, but I think it's |
0:10.5 | very, very important. |
0:12.9 | And I don't think the real story is really filtering down. |
0:19.5 | We, taxpayers, are paying universities to attack America and its Western values. |
0:28.1 | More accurately, our government is using money. |
0:30.6 | It takes from us in the form of taxes and giving it as grants or whatever form to universities that are promoting |
0:44.3 | anti-Israel and anti-American ideologies. |
1:00.1 | Now, stopping wasteful spending, like through Doge, is very important to be sure. |
1:01.7 | No question about that. But even as important or more important is to stop using our tax dollars to subsidize |
1:08.4 | university bloat and intellectual rot that is being taught, particularly |
1:15.0 | at our elite universities, that is just fundamentally helping to destroy America. |
1:23.1 | Now, I want to share with you some evidence on which my statements are based. |
1:30.5 | Now, most universities right now, research universities in particular, are enrolling two to three |
1:37.9 | times as many graduate students as they are undergraduates. |
1:44.1 | Now, I'm going to tell you why this is a problem and why this |
1:48.0 | is incestuous. The ringleaders of anti-Israeli protest have typically been graduate students. |
1:58.6 | I'm going to quote heavily from an article in the Wall Street Journal, |
2:04.8 | an editorial entitled Madness at Columbia was your tax dollars at work, and it was written by |
2:11.9 | Alicia Finley. I thought the main goal of universities was to teach undergraduate students. |
2:18.0 | Colleges, Alicia opines, being resourceful businesses that they are, have boosted revenue |
2:26.7 | by adding pricey graduate programs and enrolling more graduate students. Now, an example is Brown University in December warned |
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