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Trump vs. Harvard: Deporting International Students
from CNN Interview, Ms. Rachel Propaganda, & The Uncancelables | The Tim Dillon Show #445 · #445
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Tim discusses Trump's effort to revoke international students' visas at Harvard, agreeing universities need reform and taxpayer-funded activism should end, but arguing it's wrong to deport students en masse without proven crimes, and criticizing 'rat culture' and mob justice from the pandemic era onward.
- Tim has friends at Harvard and sees Trump's plan to deport all international students as an overcorrection.
- Higher education has become an embarrassment—safe spaces, segregation, struggle sessions, building takeovers, and violence on campuses.
- American taxpayers shouldn't fund rich kids having tantrums at Ivy League schools, but mass visa revocation overnight is too extreme.
- Tim rejects turning into a country of rats by collecting data on protest attendees; the Trump administration shouldn't demand names from Harvard.
- America has an imperfect legal system—crimes must be charged and proven in court, not tried by social media mob justice.
- Revoking visas for protest attendance without crime or visa violation crosses the line; none of these international students are broke anyway.
- College teachers are inventing schools of study that don't matter, preaching victimhood gospels while wealthy students pretend to be victims.
- Students at prestigious universities inventing victim designations while getting elite educations should shut up—genuine victims are starving people elsewhere.
- As someone who makes a living saying whatever he wants, Tim can't support deporting students for speaking out on war or attending protests.
- Throwing people out of the country for disagreeing with another country shouldn't happen; it's too easy to accuse someone of authoritarian rhetoric.
- Tim concludes everyone needs to stop yelling at each other for five minutes.