scientists are usually the first target of when a dictator takes power, they often leave before shit hits the fan. then it goes to POC, and then lgbtq+, and then non-loyalists.
Beat me to it. How you could say the scientists are the first to go while they are putting legal residents that have done nothing into el Salvadorian prisons is beyond me.
They didnāt say scientists are the first target, they said scientists are usually the first target. Didnāt say that they were the first target in this case.
Controlling the universities is for control of information.
The Nazis could easily burn down the Institute of Sex Research and all it contents. Todayās fascists cannot burn down the science on queer people and global warming.
Universities have smart people who can say āhey this is the way your economic policies are harming this group of peopleā or ābeing LGBT is a normal human variationā or āthe American civil war was fought over slaveryā or āhere are characteristics that seem to be common to every incarnation of fascism, and how they all seem to be related to whatās happening now.ā
The idiot arm attacks knowledge online with Alex Jones style āinformation warfareā - just repeating insane falsehoods over and over again. Never playing defense, always flooding the web with lies and half truths. This is also why fascists love AI so much. (How much time do people waste arguing with bots? And the amount of bots makes these ideas seem more ānormalā and common then they areā¦)
scientists are usually the first target of when a dictator takes power, they often leave before shit hits the fan. then it goes to POC, and then lgbtq+, and then non-loyalists.
It kinda seems like immigrants and anti-war protesters made it to the top of the list this time.
Beat me to it. How you could say the scientists are the first to go while they are putting legal residents that have done nothing into el Salvadorian prisons is beyond me.
They didnāt say scientists are the first target, they said scientists are usually the first target. Didnāt say that they were the first target in this case.
Thatās just the first pass. Theyāll get dissidents and members of āoppositionā parties in a subsequent round.
Controlling the universities is for control of information.
The Nazis could easily burn down the Institute of Sex Research and all it contents. Todayās fascists cannot burn down the science on queer people and global warming.
Universities have smart people who can say āhey this is the way your economic policies are harming this group of peopleā or ābeing LGBT is a normal human variationā or āthe American civil war was fought over slaveryā or āhere are characteristics that seem to be common to every incarnation of fascism, and how they all seem to be related to whatās happening now.ā
The idiot arm attacks knowledge online with Alex Jones style āinformation warfareā - just repeating insane falsehoods over and over again. Never playing defense, always flooding the web with lies and half truths. This is also why fascists love AI so much. (How much time do people waste arguing with bots? And the amount of bots makes these ideas seem more ānormalā and common then they areā¦)
Guy in the article isnāt a scientist.
Heās quite literally a political scientistā¦ social sciences are science too.