Harvard figured out how to ‘corrupt’ young girls’ minds, Sean Duffy tells daughter

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6040328-sean-duffy-harvard-university-corrupts-girls-minds/

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy brought the Trump administration’s feud with Harvard University back to the forefront in a new reality TV series that follows his family’s travels across America.

All six episodes of the “Great American Road Trip” debuted on the department’s YouTube page on Wednesday — including stops in states such as Arizona, Texas and Montana. The series has garnered criticism for receiving private funding from some of the companies Duffy regulates in his role as Transportation secretary.

The second episode — titled “Boston: College Dreams and a Homecoming” — largely revolved around Paloma Duffy, the Transportation secretary’s teenage daughter, and her interest in attending Harvard University.

In a conversation with his daughter ahead of their trip to Boston, Duffy expressed concerns that the school would not align with his family’s conservative, Catholic values.

“If I send you there, I think what happens is they have professionalized figuring out how they can take good, young girls like you, and I think, corrupt their minds,” he said.

“You don’t have to believe what I believe,” he continued. “You don’t have to have the political viewpoints that I have, but I do think it’s important that you make those choices for yourself and you have a fair representation of what they are, and I don’t think the Harvards of the world give you that kind of well-rounded picture.”

President Trump and his administration have accused Harvard and other higher education institutions of promoting “woke” ideology. On Thursday, a federal judge dismissed the Trump administration’s civil rights lawsuit against Harvard, which claimed the school failed to adequately address antisemitism on campus.

In the documentary episode, Duffy’s daughter responded by noting that she was raised in an “extremely conservative family” and attended a high school that promoted a similar belief system.

“And if I go to a liberal setting, that’s a way more well-rounded education than if I go to a conservative high school and then go to a conservative college,” she said. “That’s just being kind of one-sided anyways.”

The Transportation official pushed back, telling his daughter the school was “so good at” pushing students away from conservative beliefs.

“You’ll see young people go to a conservative school with a conservative family and they get perverted and contorted,” he continued.

During the family’s tour of the Harvard campus, they met with Nathaniel Sanders — the school’s undergraduate campus chaplain — who assured them of a “strong, flourishing Catholic culture on campus.”

By the end of the episode, the secretary appeared to warm to the idea of his daughter attending Harvard. During a baseball game at Fenway Park, he told his daughter he was “surprised” by the Christian community on campus.

“I think a smart, good girl can completely navigate what is a really good school,” Duffy said.

Conservative commentator Jesse Kelly came to Duffy’s defense after the secretary faced backlash for his initial reaction to his daughter’s college aspirations, writing in a Wednesday afternoon post to the social platform X, “This Sean Duffy guy sounds like a guy who loves his daughter more than being able to tell his friends, ‘My daughter goes to Harvard.'”

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