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(NewsNation) — Bill O'Reilly has a connection for Harvard successful its battle with President Trump: "You're level retired wrong."
Earlier this week, the assemblage rejected the Trump administration's demands to bounds activism connected campus. That determination prompted the national authorities to freeze much than $2.2 cardinal successful grants to Harvard.
The school's absorption connected DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion — has been astatine the halfway of the clash, but O'Reilly doesn't deliberation Harvard is sincerely committed to the thought due to the fact that determination are hardly immoderate conservatives connected campus.
"Your module is 90% extremist left, you don't prosecute moderate, accepted blimpish professors," O'Reilly said connected "CUOMO" connected Wednesday.
"Conservative, Republican students consciousness uneasy, threatened," helium said. "Jewish students consciousness uneasy."
O'Reilly said the field wasn't ever hostile to blimpish viewpoints.
"When I went determination and got my masters successful the mid-90s, it wasn't that way," O'Reilly said. "It was a wide culture, but different points of presumption were accepted."
He added: "We each got on swell, the professors didn't effort to indoctrinate anybody."
In a letter Monday, Harvard President Alan Garber said the assemblage "will not surrender its independency oregon relinquish its law rights."
"No authorities — careless of which enactment is successful powerfulness — should dictate what backstage universities tin teach, whom they tin admit and hire, and which areas of survey and enquiry they tin pursue," Garber wrote.
On Wednesday, the Trump medication asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.
O'Reilly thinks a batch of the Trump administration's threats would spell distant if the schoolhouse proved it was committed to ideological diversity.
"If radical were reasonable, this happening could beryllium solved, and I anticipation it is," O'Reilly said.
