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Trump is eager to defund Harvard, yet publicly subsidized hate groups get a pass

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Donald Trump threatens to review Harvard 's tax-exempt status.

Frida Ghitis: Even some of the nation’s most hateful and antidemocratic entities qualify as tax-free charities.

She says it's telling that a president who never questioned the tax-exempt status of white nationalist groups is now suggesting his IRS might take a hard look at Harvard 's.

When I reached Taylor by phone circa 2020 , he told me he disagreed with Roof ’s motive of starting a race war.

Taylor also disputed the Southern Poverty Law Center's characterization of the Council of Conservative Citizens and New Century as white nationalists.

Alas, our current, Orwellian , administration has proved itself a “white advocate’ at the expense of just about everyone else.

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