We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
Good for them.
It should have been clear when the police was cracking down on the university protests in 2024.
Oh, it opens with a 6min unskippable video. instead of an article, on a website that still has the line "Today's Paper" at the top of the page.
At this point I'm convinced that the NYT is living in the 2000s.
We need an "I'm an academic expert on fascism. Of you see me running try and keep up" tee shirt
My therapist called me a canary in the coal mine. I'm trans, I have the means to move, basically it was a "if you leave suddenly I'll know things have gotten really bad". I've almost gotten everything lined up to move on a plan but I'm still keeping my bug out bag around in case something bad enough happens I need to leave day of to try and get past the border
Must be nice.
Well, I'm glad you have the privilege to do so, I suppose.
Well, why don't the 250 million Americans who didn't vote for trump just also move to Canada???
Would be nice but you can't simply move to any other country you want. Other countries have enacted similar stupid immigration laws just like the US. There isn't a single country where US citizens can just move (except the US of course). It's like a curse. The orange in the WH would need to do something really f'ed for other countries to accept american asylum applications. personally I wish I could just bag and go
"Fascist expert", hm like, a historian ? lol sorry I don't speak the nytimes-language
considering the actions of the current administration it would have probably been better to publish this after leaving the US
I suspect they're willing to take the risk to try and warn others. This is sort of a middle ground approach. They're banking on Trump not being able to retaliate in time before they leave the country, he's moving fast, but he's not at the imprison political opponents stage yet. He will be soon, but they've got some time.
In the meantime, it serves as a warning to us and others to get out if you can.
Well we all know that Fascism experts are the least important people to have around when Fascism takes over a country.
Technically you can criticize from afar but it's good to have fascism experts on the front lines.
This is also an incredibly privileged thing to be able to do and one that the vast majority of the most vulnerable and likely to be on the camp list are stuck here and would like some experts to help fight back.
Well we all know that Fascism experts are the least important people to have around when Fascism takes over a country.
Historically nobody fucking listens to fascism experts so yeah that's true. Looking at the pace Trump is democracy at and the state of "resistance" to his regime, I'd bail too, and I didn't spend my whole career studying the horrors of fascism.
To be fair many of the US media outlets, among which is also the New York Times often refused to call out the utter nonsense that Trump was spewing during the campaign. This is also a reason it has come to the current situation.
Well, that was a little terrifying
Took them long enough.
"As the leading experts on this topic we feel that the best course of action is to hide. We feel that anyone else would be better suited to help address something that is so bad we believe it will eventually lead to global turmoil."
And people have the audacity to think that most of these modern academics are nepotistic charlatans and spineless cowards. Pssshhhaawww.
Ahh but they're calling it a protest because they got an NyTimes article written about their leaving.
The New York Times never fails to reveal its close adherence to its century-plus role as entertainment for the well-to-do who want to play in the trappings of intellectualism without ever having their status quo truly challenged.
Cowards writing in the cowardly rag. Later.
Adios! Thanks for taking the money!