Sean Duffy Warns His Daughter That Attending Harvard Will 'Corrupt' Her Mind In Bizarre New Clip From His Reality Show

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was criticized after he was filmed warning his college-bound daughter Paloma that Harvard knows how to "take good young girls" and "corrupt their minds."

The Great American Road Trip follows Duffy’s seven-month journey across the country with his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children. In the second episode, the family heads to Boston to tour colleges for Paloma.

The episode, titled "College Dreams and a Homecoming," opens with Duffy encouraging Paloma to reconsider Harvard if she is accepted, warning that the university could expose her to views “contrary to the way my kids were raised.” Duffy tells her, “Well, me and mom can say no" when Paloma says she feels like "you can't say no" to attending Harvard.

The show cuts to Duffy and his wife, who remarks:

“Catholicism to us is everything. It's the basis of our marriage. It's the basis of our family. So, I'm nervous about the idea of Paloma going to Harvard.”

Then the show brings us back to Duffy's conversation with Paloma in the kitchen:

“Listen, my problem is, we have thought about how we raised you, and how hard we’ve worked to, I think, raise what is a remarkable young girl. 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.”

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

You can hear what he said in the video below.

When Paloma argues that attending a “liberal” university such as Harvard could give her a less “one-sided” education than attending a conservative school, Duffy replies:

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

You can hear what he said in the video below.

Duffy was criticized.

Duffy's remarks to his daughter are in line with MAGA's wider attacks against women in higher education.

The late far-right activist Charlie Kirk helped popularize a claim that higher education is a "scam," which was popular among conservatives who have argued for years that college degrees no longer guarantee bright futures, and criticized what they perceive as an emphasis on "social justice" and "indoctrination."

Kirk not only disparaged higher education, he believed women should strive for marriage instead. He once asserted that “we have more 30-something young women that are single than married and they are by far the most reliable Democratic bloc," admonishing women in this age bracket who have "a nice apartment, a corporate job, and cats."

Insisting that birth control "screws up female brains" so much that they become Democrats, he said women have been pushed away from marriage to the detriment of society, contributing to "mass political hysteria."

Just weeks ago, Fox News host Jesse Watters was criticized following a sexist diatribe on The Five about how college-educated women end up "bitter" and single because "men don’t care if you have a PhD."

Watters addressed his message to "college-educated, downwardly mobile women," saying that it's "mostly women" who waste time by getting "advanced degrees" in the humanities or social sciences instead of prioritizing relationships and love.