Sen Tom Cotton proposes restricting Chinese students from studying science & tech at US universitie

[riversedge]

Cotton always was a racist GOP jerk!



"If Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare & the Federalist Papers, that's what they need to learn from America. They don't need to learn quantum computing" -- Sen. Tom Cotton proposes restricting Chinese students from studying science & tech at US universities

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[roamer65]

1. Is Arkansas a taker state?

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If so, cotton needs to STFU.

[Under The Radar]

2. A lot of folks out there saying stupid stuff today

...likely trying to turn attention away from Trump’s ignorance once again.

[dalton99a]

3. Tom Cotton is running for the most rabid racist in Congress.

[RKP5637]

4. I guess Cotton wants some of the attention tRump gets for being a stupid ass! n/t

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Mouth breather Cotton is solidifying his bonafides for a

future run for President.

[samsingh]

6. repugs are truly stupid irrelevant waste of air and space

[Docreed2003]

7. Why the fuck would anyone come to America to "study Shakespeare"

No offense to American Shakespearean scholars. Cotton is a freaking bigoted ass.

[Caliman73]

17. Exactly what I thought

Does idiot Cotton think that Shakespeare was American?

Rule number 1 when being an arrogant bigot: Don't say something that is fucking stupid, like America is the place to come to study Shakespeare.

[Celerity]

27. he obviously knows little about Chinese culture, Shakespeare is huge there nt

[Botany]

30. In Arkansas Shakespeare is fishin' tackle

[Docreed2003]

34. Lmao...so true

[Botany]

37. To bait or not to bail? That is cat fishing.

BTW did he really say study quantum computing? I might be wrong but I thought
all analytical computing is quantum based. And BTW China already leads the world
in A.I..

[dalton99a]

8. NEXT: Sen. Cotton introduces Chinese Exclusion Act

to require expulsion of Chinese from university programs

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. I suppose he thinks US has nothing to learn about infectious diseases from China?

"Not invented here" can be the death of many companies and some countries.

[theaocp]

10. A racist POS sez what? n/t

[LakeArenal]

11. To be fair:(eyeroll)

Republicans don’t want US students to study science either.

[tulipsandroses]

12. As I posted in another thread, the world will pass us by due to racist

right wing and religious ideologies.

Just like they have vilified immigrant farmworkers and other food industries, to placate their rabid base, without telling them the truth that immigrants help to hold up our food industry.

You won't hear it from them that immigrants are a big contribution to our science and tech industry.

This rabid racism we have seen over the last several years will push those people to take their talents elsewhere and help those countries succeed. While we cling to guns, the Bible and push stupid conspiracy theories.

[Sneederbunk]

13. Cotton does not even think inside the box.

[Delphinus]

14. This CANNOT

be allowed - horrid idea. Eff him - it's all about saving the dotard's face.

[JHB]

15. And they say it's liberals who don't understand how the world works

Tom, they don't have to come here. They have their own universities, you know. They already have quantum computing research going on.

And isn't it better if they come here rather than we end up having to go there?

[dalton99a]

21. +1. There is also an immediate financial cost - Chinese students provide a big chunk of tuition fees

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/amid-coronavirus-cutting-international-students-jeopardizes-colleges.html
Stemming the flow of international students could cost US colleges $41 billion
Published Sun, Mar 15 2020 10:16 AM EDT

[Baitball Blogger]

16. If Shakespeare were alive today, the Republicans and the Federalist Society

would bring the Shakespearean fool characters up to a new level.

[gademocrat7]

18. The racist cotton mouth senator

Needs to slither back to the woods of Arkansas.

[dalton99a]

41. Arkansas is home to Walmart, the world's biggest importer of Chinese products

Cotton is the biggest hypocrite in Congress on every subject

[genxlib]

19. The incredibly arrogant assumption here

Is that we will be the ones to develop the vaccine.

It is just as likely that it gets developed elsewhere. Including, potentially in China where they have the scientific capability and a two month head start.

I, for one, would rather not be the selfish asshole on the outside looking in when it gets developed elsewhere.

[clutterbox1830]

20. No surprise. Xenophobia is there main selling point to their base.

We are going to hear non-stop China bashing and xenophobia until election day.

[The Magistrate]

22. Reviving The Old Chinese Exclusionary Act....

If recollection serves, even while we were allied with China in the war against Japan, no Chinese could be naturalized as a citizen of the United States.


"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."

[dalton99a]

25. Following the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a period known as the "Driving Out" era was born

Following the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a period known as the "Driving Out" era was born. In this period, anti-Chinese Americans physically forced Chinese communities to flee to other areas. Large scale violence in Western states included The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre (1885) and the Hells Canyon Massacre of 1887.[32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

[Norbert]

23. Why hasn't he been tried for treason?

[dalton99a]

29. +1. A servile lapdog eager to do Trump's bidding

[DFW]

24. Cotton apparently realizes what a great contribution Shakespeare made to American literature

Similar to the contributions made to American medicine by Louis Pasteur.........

[dalton99a]

26. or American quantum physics by Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenberg

[DFW]

32. They have German names

To an old neo-Nazi like Cotton, they are allowed, sort of like Göbbels and Mengele.

[Chipper Chat]

28. Tom Cotton is the ultimate Dumbfuck.

Unless you have an opinion about Looney Ghoulmert.

[crickets]

31. I wonder how universities feel about losing the talent and tuition. nt

[MelissaB]

33. I'll say something that I suspect will be very unpopular here.

Chinese students have been stealing our info (science, technology, etc) and sending it back to China. I dislike Cotton immensely, but we need to address this national security issue.

I have 2 children and a husband in STEM fields. I went through some of my text messages and pulled up a few articles I have sent her over the last few months. Here they are.


Universities are forging ties with the FBI as US cracks down on foreign influence

Public institutes are responding to allegations of interference in research by foreign governments, especially China.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00646-9

Researcher at University Arrested for Wire Fraud and Making False Statements About Affiliation with a Chinese University
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/researcher-university-arrested-wire-fraud-and-making-false-statements-about-affiliation

US says suspect in Apple case had classified Patriot missile file from Raytheon
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/12/08/says-suspect-apple-case-had-classified-patriot-missile-file-from-raytheon/RbRvWMzvo0Vq30nu5a9PfL/story.html

Raytheon engineer arrested for taking US missile defense secrets to China
https://qz.com/1795127/raytheon-engineer-arrested-for-taking-us-missile-defense-secrets-to-china/

"Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning and charged"
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china

"Unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at
Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China"

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Today's announcement by federal law enforcement is the culmination of cases where 1) A Harvard professor received thousands for China 2) A member of the PLA was at BU conducting US Military Research 3) A third arrested at Logan for smuggling vials of medical research.

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The arrested Harvard prof is tip of the iceberg. When the Texas A&M system investigated how much Chinese money its faculty was getting, officials were astounded—over 100 were involved in Chinese talent recruitment plans. Only 5 disclosed.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-funding-of-u-s-researchers-raises-red-flags-11580428915

Judge mulls fate of US researcher who denies spying for China
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/judge-mulls-fate-of-us-researcher-who-denies-spying-for-china

Amid rising spy concerns, 2 more Chinese students held after shooting photos at base

Key West visitors always flock to the town’s favorite tourist spots — Mallory Square, Duval Street, Ernest Hemingway’s home, and the Southernmost Point Buoy — to snap photos and record memories.

But apparently, not students visiting from China. For some reason, they seem to like taking pictures of military facilities in Key West.

The latest — a pair of Chinese nationals attending the University of Michigan — were arrested over the weekend and appeared in federal court in Key West on Monday on a charge of entering a U.S. Naval property for the purpose of photographing defense installations.

Since the fall of 2018, a total of four Chinese nationals have been arrested on charges of shooting pictures of military facilities in Key West, drawing the sharp interest of U.S. counterintelligence investigators who have been probing suspected Beijing-led spying activities in South Florida, including visitors to President Donald Trump’s private club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach.

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In a similar case, another Chinese student, Lyuyou Liao, was arrested the day after Christmas on a charge of entering the Truman Annex at the Naval Air Station for the purpose of photographing defense installations. In Liao’s case, several witnesses told police they watched Liao trespass onto the military property and warned him not to go there, according to another criminal affidavit. He was later stopped by federal agents who found photos on his cellphone of military facilities.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article239010873.html#storylink=cpy

[killaphill]

36. You are correct, and it should be unpopular

Cherry picked stories intended to breed paranoia.

[MelissaB]

39. Nope. It's national security.

Tom Cotton may be a racist asshole, but broken clock and all.

Edited to say: Cherry picked stories? Come on!

[Midnight Writer]

35. I look for Tom Cotton to become a top Presidential contender in the future.

Kind of like Paul Ryan, he has inexplicably gained a reputation for being a smart policy wonk in the GOP.

In the land of the blind...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

38. Wow

He's not saying a lot about the US if the only reason(s) to come here is study Shakespeare (which isn't even American literature) or history of the American government that not even he nor Trump has a grasp on.

[sinkingfeeling]

40. Of course, his number one priority is still all out war with China.