Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
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Re: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
#2Discussion (53 points, 9 hours ago, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495824
Re: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
#3> Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”.
Paying large sums of taxes for a school that is unquestionably failing my children, with no option to attend another school (without shelling an unfathomable amount of money for private schooling), feels like educational authoritarianism to me.
Re: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
#41. You'd think he would want to study it up close.
2. If anything it's "fascism lite" and it's only for 4 years.
3. I'm not sure that forcing some belt tightening on a bloated academia is the worst thing in the world.
Re: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
#5> Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”. Paying large sums of taxes for a school that is unquestionably failing my children, with no option to attend another school (without shelling an unfathomable amount of money for private schooling), feels like educational authoritarianism to me.
As somebody on the other political side, I wouldn't want federal tax dollars going to mormon universities in a vacuum. To prevent more culture war distractions from the faculty's jobs of teaching, I think anybody who can do math can agree that:
Either every university should get subsidies proportional to the effectiveness of their graduates or no universities should get any subsidies at all.
Re: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
#61. You'd think he would want to study it up close. 2. If anything it's "fascism lite" and it's only for 4 years. 3. I'm not sure that forcing some belt tightening on a bloated academia is the worst thing in the world.
Surely it will only be 4 years!
Re: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
#71. You'd think he would want to study it up close. 2. If anything it's "fascism lite" and it's only for 4 years. 3. I'm not sure that forcing some belt tightening on a bloated academia is the worst thing in the world.
Surely it will only be 4 years!
It was the first time. How much do you want to wager?
Re: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
#81. You'd think he would want to study it up close. 2. If anything it's "fascism lite" and it's only for 4 years. 3. I'm not sure that forcing some belt tightening on a bloated academia is the worst thing in the world.
Makes sense if you're familiar with the professor in question:
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#9Re: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
#10> Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”. Paying large sums of taxes for a school that is unquestionably failing my children, with no option to attend another school (without shelling an unfathomable amount of money for private schooling), feels like educational authoritarianism to me.
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