Thread: History Has a Warning for Us. Are We Listening?
1/ When governments start muzzling universities, censoring research, and punishing academics, history isn’t vague about what happens next. We’ve seen this before. We know exactly where this road leads.
1/ When governments start muzzling universities, censoring research, and punishing academics, history isn’t vague about what happens next. We’ve seen this before. We know exactly where this road leads.
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Stalin’s Soviet Union: Scientists who dared to dissent? Sent to gulags. Executed. Entire fields of study—like genetics—erased from existence.
McCarthyism in the U.S. (1950s): Academics blacklisted, careers destroyed, and a culture of paranoia where fear replaced free thought.
Turkey (2016-Present): Thousands of professors fired, jailed. Universities forcibly closed.
Hungary (2018-Present): Bans on gender studies. Universities shut down. Free inquiry stripped away piece by piece.
This isn’t just a policy shift—it’s a flashing red warning light.
If we don’t push back now, history won’t ask us why. It will just repeat itself.