I was just gonna reply “Idiots!”

Can't have soldiers hearing accurate history and sociology.

Time for veterans to stand up for his removal.

Less educated troops will not question illegal orders, I bet.

Two can play that silly, childish game, after all.

... for fear they'd antagonize RWNJs.

Spoiler alert: They're already antagonized, and will remain that way for life. Don't try to appeal appease them, it's wasted political capital with nothing gained in return.

Propaganda Fascist from Goebbels FAUX

To be among the top in the world must be wrong.

I’m sure all the funded students will transfer to Liberty, Regent, Oral Roberts, etc., universities.

....such a monumental petulant douche?

...some God-fearin' institution that ain't gonna bother with no "ethics" or "history" or "WOKE nonsense."

Deeper and dumber.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

That's all you need to know about someone who would say that.

that this song was the most popular song among the student body that year in high school. I still remember how distressed she was.

The quickest self inflicted descent to third world status in history.... But that would be an insult to third world nations, who actually want to work and advance their countries .

The whole concept of higher education is to teach people to think for themselves; an exercise in wokeness.
Republicans hate that. Their base is all brain dead zombies, and loving it.

but he comes off as appearing weak & afraid of universities.

Nobody’s more “Woke” than Jesus.

Awake, aware, responsible… you know, all the stuff a general shouldn’t be.

They are not allowed any intelligent thought.

You got your head up your ass!

... always fall back on words that they think are pejorative, even though they're too stupid to actually learn the definition of words like "WOKE".

For the enlightenment of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Hegseth, permit me to present, yet again, Merriam Webster's definition of woke:
[To be] aware of, and actively attentive to, important facts and issues, especially of racial and social injustice.

Someone who is against that benign sentiment has NO right to be the Secretary of Defense (FUCK this Secretary of War bullshit!)

Every time I think my hatred of these lowlife thugs can't get any more intense, they find a way to crank it up beyond already hotter than the surface of the Sun.

I've been in academia for 25+ years, and am currently a professor at a university. Universities and the DOD are inextricably tied together, and the banned universities were providing quality value to the DOD. Some things to think about.

1. Every top level officer in the military has a graduate degree. You basically need to have a Masters, and preferably a PhD, to be a general or admiral these days. I can't tell you how many active duty military I've seen getting masters and PhD's, both from US and foreign military. The US Navy has a top-notch graduate school, the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey. It's really good. Prior to Hegseth, US military doctrine was that highly educated senior officers with advanced degrees was a good thing. Hegseth hasen't completely renounced that position, but have taken some of the best places to get those degrees off the board for no practical reason.

2. The most senior officers have to know much more than just strategy, tactics, and logistics. The advanced degrees I mentioned in the previous paragraph may be about "military science", but are often about a specific technical discipline (aerospace engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, etc). They may also be about "softer" disciplines like history and geopolitics. These people are operating at a level where their actions can have generational effects and they need to think that way. Hegseth never had to operate at that level when active duty, so he doesn't see the value of it. The best schools for both the technical skills (MIT) and the geopolitical skills (Harvard, Yale) are now off limits. Yes, there are other very good schools, but this is incredibly self-defeating.

3. All of these schools are providing junior level officers through their ROTC programs, managed by active duty military. Are those programs closing? It seems odd to shut down those pipelines. The active duty military can be re-assigned, but what of the students partway through the programs? Are they just screwed? The fact that these schools have been providing ROTC graduates for over 100 years and haven't yet made the military "woke" pretty much puts the lie to the claim that they are somehow reducing military effectiveness

4. Are the research program affected? Every one of the advanced technologies the right-wing loves to show off were birthed in a university research lab. Yes, we have amazing technology, but only because there was a conscious effort for decades to team government-academia-industry to produce it. The government provided the funding, academia provided the advanced research, and industry produced the resulting products for the government to use. Trump is already running a protection racket on these schools for government research funding. Will Hegseth extend this to DOD research funding? Why wouldn't you want MIT to work on your technically advance weaponry? As a minimum, it is again ignoring the value that these universities provide to the DOD, for no practical reason.

In short - there are multiple aspects as to how this move reduces US capability against actual, real-world opponents all in the name of opposing an imaginary enemy called "woke."