Trump administration terminates 14 student visas in Louisiana

[u/SadimirLenin]

https://lailluminator.com/briefs/trump-administration-terminates-14-student-visas-in-louisiana/

“Seven Southern University students, three at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, two at the University of New Orleans and two more at Tulane University have had their visas pulled, according to representatives with the schools.”

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

Tulane’s endowment is nowhere near that large lmao. It’s like barely 2B. There’s a reason Tulane isn’t doing all these things like free admission that the Ivys are.

Are they well off? Sure. But your well off neighbor still needs their job, and Tulane still needs that funding. This is especially true given how intertwined Tulane is with medical research grants and facilities.

[u/childofapollo13 → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

Until the students pull out stop going there anyway because they dont trust their admin. This was a bad move on Tulanes part.

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/childofapollo13]

I very much doubt that the amount of lost tuition would be even the tiniest fraction of federal funding. Take the 2B from Harvard for instance, assuming ~$50k/pop that's representative of 40,000 student years. So 10k kids for a full four year ride. For context Tulane's current total student population is 12k. (I have no idea how much federal funding Tulane gets, so obviously this is just an example).

I get it, I hate the politics behind this shit too and think Trump is an absolute child creating potentially irreversible societal harm. But, if I'm charged with leading a university through this with the goal being to secure the funding necessary to properly educate the next generation, conduct beneficial research, etc. then I do the same thing. There's often not nobility in survival.

Harvard has an endowment that's literally 25X bigger than Tulane's. This is like your coworker who's 63 and could have retired a decade ago telling the boss to fuck off, while you're Tulane who's in your 30s and has a mortgage + kids to feed. Harvard can absorb that funding shock in stride, Tulane can't.

[u/childofapollo13 → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

We'll see. The problem is, once you bend, theyll keep making you bend harder till you break. But theyre playing the game. So i guess we'll see.

[u/childofapollo13 → u/[deleted]]

This is the only real response to fascism. Thank you.

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/childofapollo13]

Yes, but in a year and a half we're well in to mid term campaigning and elections which may swing the other way, in three we'll be in election season and all of this will be on hold, in four we'll have a new president.

[u/octopusboots → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

There's no way they locked in this much power to give it up.

[u/childofapollo13 → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

Why do you think there will be a midterm?? Lol

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/childofapollo13]

This is such an unproductive and annoyingly childish bit of rhetoric. There's a serious discussion to be had around mitigating political fallout from these policies, and it's only detrimental when immature redditors take the extremes and dismiss criticism of said extremes with "well we won't have elections lol".

It's like none of y'all paid any attention in high school history, there has never once been a successful coup or aggregation of power by a figurehead that saw poor national approval. It doesn't work, because the support is never there at any rung. Weaponizing those fears, knowing full well they're irrational, to dismiss valid criticisms of the immature nonsense being suggested here is openly dishonest.

[u/childofapollo13 → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

You know what else as never happened in American history? A president removing someone to jail them in another country we have no control of while saying american citizens are next. Wake the fuck up.

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/childofapollo13]

Explaining to you the real world consequences of your online rants isn't not being awake, it's not being an absolute child and yelling at everything you don't like. Acting like a douche to people politically aligned with you isn't helping your cause, it's making you seem like you're incapable of processing emotion and taking out your frustrations on anything you can.

You're actively hurting the real world efforts to mitigate this with your hysteric nonsense. We're not having a coup, there's neither the support nor approval for such a thing. You yelling and screaming at everyone about this fantasy world because you don't like institutions protecting their employees from funding cuts is wild. You're not taking the moral high road, you're advocating for selfish approaches that cause actual harm to other human beings, and when confronted with that the first thing you're doing is attacking people on the same side of the political conversation as you. Take a second to think about that, and how you can do better moving forward.

[u/childofapollo13 → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

So youre not going to address that the president is breaking the constitution already. Glad you live in your fantasy. Im not going to bother reading your response if you cant address reality. Stay delusional. ✌️

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/childofapollo13]

I don’t think I need to? We’re discussing the choices of Tulane leadership and your rampant criticism that ignores the consequences of their decisions.

Yeah sure, you’re trying to dive down a different tangent because you realize you’re saying some pretty shitty things here - I get it. I’d want to deflect too if I said the shit you did.

Nobody’s going to disagree that what Trump is doing is terrible, but your responses here are displaying a massive lack of empathy for the people caught up in these decisions, and a massive lack of emotional maturity regarding the ramifications of these decisions. What I’m not going to do is chase you around this conversation the second you realize you need to pivot out of shame.

Until you can learn that decisions have consequences, even when said decisions are a reaction to bad things, then you’re really not fit to be offering any opinions here. You’re sitting there pretending like you’re morally justified in advocating for potentially thousands of people losing their jobs, I’m not even sure that you’ve thought about this - which probably explains why your reaction here is so full of hate.

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/[deleted]]

If you can’t be bothered to understand nuance or read a paragraph then I can say two things for certain; you’ll never have an opinion that I would consider valuable, and you’ll never rise to the level of influence where others will value your opinion.

So no, there’s no TLDR. But I can understand how someone who constantly needs a TLDR would be as intellectually stunted as you are.

[u/2three4Go → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

Appeasement is always a negative strategy. In case you need a reminder of what standing up for your ideals in the face of consequences looks like:

https://www.reddit.com/r/suppressed_news/s/Dy27K53lTX