the U.S. government is targeting legal noncitizen scholars, not on the basis of any wrongdoing, but as part of a larger assault against an educated public.
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Consider a tactic: 👀Educated people should use concrete examples - avoid abstractions. Don’t expect the public to deduce from your generalizations—they can’t! Let them build up to higher concepts through specifics and earthy metaphors. Common sense = the world we all share through our five senses.
Sadly, it’s already gone beyond that; funding has been pulled and lots of students and professors are having to find other places to go to do their scholarship (other countries) or abandoning their work altogether
US had 1.1 million international students in 2024. I wonder what that will be in 2025. I know of several returning home to finish their degree in europe. They don't feel safe in the US, as they apparently can get arrested/deported at any moment.
Universities are going to feel a bad hit. Canadian doctor, supposed to speak at nyu. It was cancelled. Dr. Liu, past leader of doctors without borders.
I disagree. This is an attack on free speech and for holding divergent views. In essence, it is an authoritarian power-play to force compliance with the government approved point of view. So, they are not against higher, skilled education per se, but you must toe the line.
However, I agree that conservatives generally want the voting masses to remain uneducated. The collapse in civics education in this country is one example. Anti-DEI legislation is another.
The GOP simultaneously destroyed the Dept of Ed, they are censoring literature & textbooks, they are trying to force Christianity into the classroom, & they want to destroy the public education system. The GOP is against ALL education, & pro right-wing anti-science Christian indoctrination.
The Republicans are mostly supported by uneducated deplorables that now are protesting cuz they believe the administration was only racist against non-whites migrants, and they wouldn't be touched. What a rude awakening.
Next they'll create re-education camps and start sending everyone with a university degree--or who wears glasses, the sign of an "intellectual". This is how stupid people act when they seize power. We saw it in SE Asia and China in the 60s and 70s. They're afraid of people who know things.
Before the actual outbreak of WW2, many Germans and German publications apologised for what was happening in Germany. Not saying anything, just stating a simple truth from history.
Pol Pot when he ruled Cambodia targeted the education system and the people running it. The reason is the same reason for the Trump regime. An educated population is a threat to a dictator. And Trump sees the educated as a threat to his rule.
It’s all straight out of the fascist playbook. All of it. And still so many either don’t see it or choose willful ignorance because they imagine they are somehow “safe.” Fascism is coming for all of us, regardless of whatever “protected class” you think you’re a part of.
They don't want educated people who will be informed and challenge. They are attempting to control all information outlets so the brainwashed and thick lap it up.
I am particularly struck by the cases of Petrova and Ozturk, because what has been characterized as radical activity is in reality the gentlest kind of dissent: refusing to call evil "good." it's the most basic expression of moral courage, one that should be common to all of us.
that all three of these scholars happen to be educated women from geopolitically tense regions is no accident either, I think. it's a comment on how readily a corrupt power can destabilize freedom anywhere, not excluding the academy.
this is, ultimately, a gloved threat to U.S. academics, a demonstration of what can happen to those the state deems inconvenient. in Trump's America, nothing could be worse than an educated public; no better proxy for suffering could present itself than the academic community.
this is an inflection point for the American university, I believe--not only in defense of its own, regardless of citizenship status, but as a moment to reevaluate academic culture entirely.
the meat-grinder of university administration, the deboning of teaching staff across departments, the life-cycle of precarity familiar to every adjunct--they are incapable of issuing a challenge against an inhumane government.
The ultimate goal is to keep the US poor stupid and enlist men in the military and women to not work and have white babies that vote red. Only wealthy influential people are educated in conservative religious institutions.(See project 2025)
yep - fascism 101. also as a way to show that they can do whatever the fuck they want to whoever they want. their base cheers it on because they think they’re immune and that’s a mistake waiting to happen. this cannot and will not stand
the Nazis got rid of the educators first too. the undesirables. everyone needs to wake the fuck up and demand these paid actors who call themselves our elected representatives to do their fucking jobs
Ozturk's visa was revoked because she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas,” though the agency did not name specific activities, stating this is “grounds for visa issuance to be terminated.” Support for Palestine is often conflated with Hamas, which is disingenuous. Read her article and decide
They are targeting students because they cant deliver on the commitment to deport illegal migrants at the levels proposed. This is not about safety its about playing the numbers game
I teach high school and my very brilliant students who would normally go Ivy League or R1 schools are already looking into leaving the country. It’s going to be devastating.
They're trying to bring everyone down to the level of stupid that they are already at. When you start targeting academic institutions, that's a bad sign. It means you don't want educated people doing research, coming up with new ideas, enlarging the minds of younger people
When Americans will see what he’s trying to do, then they‘ll understand his purpose.
In dismantling the government, taking away americans’ rights, kidnapping people, sending innocent americans to his concentration camp, a dictatorship regime is building
Trump must go, now
Willingly or by force
It’s classic authoritarianism: silence voices through fear. Why was the Turkish student accosted in broad daylight? The purpose was to make is public in order to silence any visa holder from speaking out. We citizens should speak out for them.
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March 29.2025
Evil Treasonous Traitor Republicans & elon doge crew have done it.
They have violated all our LEGAL RIGHTS to OUR PAYMENTS.
AI says:
Dismissal and Forced Emigration:
The Nazi regime purged "non-Aryan" scientists and academics from their positions, leading to the exodus of leading researchers like Albert Einstein, Hans Krebs, and Fritz Haber.
Xi, Mohammed Bin Salman and Putin await the windfall of genius fleeing USA.
Writing opinions in a school paper (Ozturk) is not grounds for revoking a visa unless there's evidence they’re not releasing. If it’s only because of her protected speech, she needs to sue for civil rights violations. Everyone needs to do the same. They need to make it hard for them at every step.
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RISK
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You've heard it a million times
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DONT
Whatever is out of your box
DO
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that missed it
“hatred never ceases thru hatred but only thru love, this is the eternal law” Buddha notwithstanding
Often even self loathing sadly
“Improper ideology.”
Yup, totally fits.
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1st Amendment includes the rights for us Citizens to hear what visa holders have to say!
Scholars?
shit’s so fucked
In dismantling the government, taking away americans’ rights, kidnapping people, sending innocent americans to his concentration camp, a dictatorship regime is building
Trump must go, now
Willingly or by force
March 29.2025
Evil Treasonous Traitor Republicans & elon doge crew have done it.
They have violated all our LEGAL RIGHTS to OUR PAYMENTS.
https://www.ssa.gov/admin/shutdown.html?URL=%2FRIL%2FSiView.action
Dismissal and Forced Emigration:
The Nazi regime purged "non-Aryan" scientists and academics from their positions, leading to the exodus of leading researchers like Albert Einstein, Hans Krebs, and Fritz Haber.
Xi, Mohammed Bin Salman and Putin await the windfall of genius fleeing USA.
From we the people
LEAP
RISK
Be Bad
We want you to be trouble
You've heard it a million times
Whatever your habits as a legislator
DONT
Whatever is out of your box
DO
There's no risk
We've come to the brink of the end
There is no risk
If you do not leap
The risk is certain
NOW!