Yale ‘Fascism Scholar’ Announces On MSNBC He’s Leaving the US for Canada Before Trump Starts ‘Pulling People’s Passports’
Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley told MSNBC Monday he is leaving his homeland for Canada while he still can, claiming the Trump administration could try to prevent him from traveling at some point.
The school’s “fascism scholar” joined the network’s Monday edition of Ana Cabrera Reports to disclose he had taken a pay cut to head for more northerly pastures.
Stanley said that the Trump administration’s targeting of anti-Semitic protestors on university campuses was not as it appears and that Jewish academics such as himself will become the real targets.
Host Ana Cabrera welcomed Stanley aboard and noted he had cited the country’s “current political environment” as having made him decide to make the move.
Cabrera asked him, “Is it impeding you from teaching what and how you’d wanna teach?”
Stanley praised Yale’s leadership and slammed the ad administrators at Columbia for folding to the demands of the White House on-campus protests.
“So it has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with my children and my desire to send a warning to Americans that is consistent with the work I’ve been doing,” he said. “This crackdown, Columbia’s capitulation to this is a grave sign about the future of academic freedom. In addition to, say, hauling people off the street and sending them to Louisiana prisons like they did at Tufts University for co-authoring op-eds in the student newspaper.” Stanley added:
The message is that they’re going to do a kind of stochastic terrorism against our country. They’re going target people one by one so that those who are in fear will shut up, essentially. And universities are filled with fear already. They’re ceasing to make public statements. They’re not banding together. Right now they’re targeting non-citizens for, you know, writing in student newspapers. I’m sure, or I suspect, they’ll start pulling people’s passports, targeting U.S. citizens for various reasons, and exploiting Americans’ ignorance.
Cabrera asked him how he would address viewers who might ask why he would not stay and fight.
Stanley replied:
“I will continue to throw punches against fascism and bullies from Canada. Don’t worry. I have two Black and Jewish kids. I think my kids actually are more important to me than anything else. So they’re using my religion to go after academic freedom, crushing universities supposedly in the name of protecting my people, Jews, American Jews. My kids are Jewish. My kids are Black. They’re attacking their history, and I want to send a political message as I’ve been doing with my work.
“This comes at great personal cost. This is not some – you know I’m taking a huge salary cut. I’m not a super wealthy person, I’ll still be well paid but I’m taking like a twenty-five percent salary cut, moving myself from my homeland that I love and I love America because it doesn’t have kings. I don’t love America because we can punch other people in the nose.”
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