The New York Times continues to work tirelessly to maintain the narrative that the United States is now a fascist regime. Earlier, the Times demonstrated its view of balanced analysis by running a collection of legal opinions titled “A Road Map to Trump’s Lawless Presidency.” Now, it is featuring three Yale professors fleeing fascism for the safety of Canada, making direct references to the rise of the Nazis. The video is titled “These Yale Professors Study Fascism.”
All three professors are going permanently to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto. It appears that the systemic rollback of free speech for conservatives in Canada is not a deterrent for Yale professors longing to be free.
The seven-minute opinion video features the three scholars: Yale philosophy Professor Jason Stanley and history professors Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder (who are married).
Shore insisted that the United States is now a fascist country replicating the Nazi takeover. Indeed, she mocks those of us who believe that our constitutional system has proven itself for centuries as a guarantor of civil liberties, including our system of checks and balances. Shore dismisses such assurances while suggesting that the American people are a virtual ship of fools in not recognizing the fascists all around them: “The lesson of 1933 is that you get out sooner rather than later.” She added that Americans are
“like people on the Titanic saying, ‘Our ship can’t sink.’ We’ve got the best ship. We’ve got the strongest ship. We’ve got the biggest ship. Our ship can’t sink,” she said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Professor Snyder declared that Americans are deluding themselves:
“If you think there is this thing out there called ‘America,’ and it’s exceptional, that means that you don’t have to do anything. Whatever is happening, it must be freedom. Soon, you are using the word freedom, what you are talking about is authoritarianism.”
The New York Times splices in ominous images of migrants being detained, children crying, and anti-Israel protesters being arrested. It also shows the image of Elon Musk’s alleged Nazi salute, a ridiculous claim fostered by the media.
Previously, Snyder did interviews claiming an oligarchic conspiracy led by Musk:
“we’re shifting from a democracy, which had some pretty heavy oligarchical streaks running through it, toward something like an oligarchy, in which I think it’s fair to say that it’s not Trump who’s the most important person. It’s Musk. Trump has debts. Musk has money. Trump has debts specifically to Musk for getting him elected. And I think the burden of proof is actually on Trump to show that he has any room for maneuver in this system. And it’s going to be interesting to see how congressional Republicans react, because what this particular oligarch wants is to break the federal government. And whatever their views might be, not — many of them don’t actually want the United States of America to cease to exist so that oligarchs can pick up the pieces.”
That is who the New York Times featured in its latest apocalyptic diatribe. What is interesting about one interview is how Snyder predicts Trump will engage in censorship through litigation, noting that it will not involve direct censorship barred by the First Amendment. He entirely ignores the massive censorship system of conservatives fostered by the Biden Administration on social media. That was apparently not something that you would speak out against, let alone leave the country over.
Professor Stanley’s past contributions to the political debate include his condemnation of “the right-wing hateosphere” in a diatribe that he later reaffirmed:
I am really, truly, embarrassed by the fact that my mild comment ‘F[**]k those assholes’ is being spread. This wildly understates my actual sentiments towards homophobic religious proponents of evil like Richard Swinburne, who use their status as professional philosophers to oppress others with less power. I am SO SORRY for using such mild language.
In the New York Times video, Stanley clinically explains that “you know you’re living in a fascist society when you’re constantly going over in your head the reasons why you’re safe. What we want is a country where none of us have to feel that way.”
It is a curious statement. Most of us fight to preserve our civil liberties to maintain a country that remains the longest, most stable, and most successful constitutional system in history. We do not dramatically pick up our things and stomp out of the country in a self-aggrandizing huff.
Losing elections can certainly make some “feel that way,” but for the rest of the country, it seemed like democracy at work. In the meantime, our courts are sorting out challenges to Trump executive orders, with many judges, including Trump appointees, ruling against the Administration. Those are the pesky “checks and balances” that Professor Shore blissfully dismissed in the New York Times video.
What is truly striking is that even Yale (which has purged virtually all conservatives from its faculty ranks) is not sufficiently “safe” for these three academic émigrés. They are going to the University of Toronto and Ontario to feel truly safe.
Of course, Ontario is not viewed as a safe space for many conservatives or contrarians. It proved hardly protective for University of Toronto professor emeritus Jordon Peterson when he was ordered to take mandatory training classes to curb his controversial writings. That order was upheld by successive Canadian courts.
So now these three academics will relocate to Toronto to teach Canadian students about fascism. They may, however, want to tread lightly on the subject of free speech.
Didn’t you mean to write Jordan Peterson, not Gordon Peterson?
The author spelled his name Jordon instead of Jordan. Minor mistake.
The list of people this country is better-off without has shrunk by three! Good job, Trump!
And, they left the US to come to Canada to escape fascism?
“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”
― Tom Wolfe
(and apparently, Canada)
It takes highly educated people to be this stupid.
They sat quietly when Biden and company had monitors at Twitter and Facebook, hired Scary Poppins as the speech hall monitor, spied on school committee meetings and conservative churches, shut down houses of religion and kept strip clubs open during covid fired employees not taking the jab, hassled conservative groups using the IRS and lied about the Russia Hoax.
Nope, none of the above bothered the “fascist experts” as a canary in the coalmine of Nazi Germany, but Trump closing the border, cutting waste and fraud from the government and trying to get fair trade deals are a hill too far for them????
A few questions:
a) What kind of golden parachute packages did they get from Yale or are they still on the books there?
b) Are they now Canadian citizens, duel citizens or American citizens?
c) What is the pay and benefits differential between what they are getting in Canada vs what they were receiving from Yale? And
d) Do they have the intestinal fortitude or the honesty to take even on position in opposition to the current liberal zeitgeist happening in Canada? i.e. opine against boys in girls sports, discuss “gender affirming care” for minors, maybe mention even one critique against Hamas or dare to mention the fact that Canada’s contribution to their defense and the defense of NATO is among the lowest % of GDP of all the nations?
If it is in the media you can accept it is inaccurate, baseless, biased, and devoid of reason and logic. The NY Slimes is a pack leader amongst the sorry state American Journalistic Standards have become. Combine that with your bog standard University Professor crew who believe their own Bovine Fecal Matter they spew from their over paid tenured pie holes and you get a perfect storm of drivel.
The three Stooges from Yale (no insult intended for the real Three Stooges who gave us healthy reasons to laugh unlike this latest version) are dog whistling and in no time shall be headed south….hopefully the Trump CBP/ICE agencies shall refuse them entry as they have publicly renounced their US Citizenship and moved to a nation that adheres to a socialist regime that deprives its own citizens from their God Given Rights which our Nation so whole heartedly believe in (well the vast majority of us anyway).
As to the three Stooges…good riddance and please invite as many of your friends as you can to join you in that socialist paradise up north.
“And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.” The speaker, a Yale professor, cannot be much of a historian to be making such a statement better befitting the skill of a ship’s architect or engineer. I wonder how many of the latter think Yale professors are inaccurate load bearing pinions. This is just another sky is falling springtime fantasy to get one away from the hustle and bustle of being a teacher of fiction.
Each semester, college professors, like eBay sellers, are rated by their students and, like eBay sellers, if their ratings are too low, they get dropped. So, the logical thing for them to do is give the customers, I mean, students, exactly what they ordered and paid for. That’s how the ratings go up and that’s how we wind up with Yale professors who are imbiciles.
But not to worry. Few us ponder our undergraduate or graduate days for their learning experiences. More likely we think of the extracurricular activities or that cute guy or gal who never seemed to have a pen when needed. So, dear professors, enjoy your sabbatical in the 51st State, get to understand and love how Canadian football and hockey are played, maybe have a Molson or two. Your deck chairs on the Titanic will be waiting for you when you return. Oh, and did I mention? Your ratings on eBay, I mean, the Yale faculty online scorecard, will increase while you’re gone. Don’t let the ivy hit you on the way out.
These Democrats are always crying wolf and jumping the shark. It has become tiresome. Just go away and STFU.
When I hear that they are fleeing the country, my first thought is -“what did they do”? Are they guilty of something?
And Democrats talking about “oligarchy” is real rich. They got more and bigger oligarchs than we do. It really is oligarch v oligarch.
Philosophy and history professors…
They might want to ask for a refund of their tuition paid for such an enlightening experience…and they probably won’t. You know…because communism is so much better than “fascism”.
Noone
Democrats and Globalists are the definition of Fascists! They are WORSE than the National Socialists of 1930’s Germany and Italy. At least they loved their country….Democrats definitively hate America!
Democrat FASCISTS using Gov, law enforcement, Big Tech, Censorship, Media, Big Banks, Business, Education, Healthcare, Violence, harassment, etc to ENFORCE their FASCISM!
To paraphrase Cromwell, ‘They have sat [and taught] at Yale far too long for all the good they have done. For God’s sake, go!’
This could be the start of something good. Let us hope that Canada becomes the repository of ALL our nation’s crazy progressives. We would be better off if the entire cult of progressive, socialist cult members moved their stench elsewhere and became Canada’s problem – they should fit in nicely in Ottowa.
Whim
But if that happened, there is no way Prez Trump could make Canada our 51st state. (-:
We get to keep Alberta and leave the rest of that frozen north to the progressives; win-win
It is important to check carefully if these three escapees of American fascism have given up their tenure at Yale. Professors are famous for taking “moralist” stands about this and that, while carefully maintaining their tenured position. Professors, particularly on the left love celebrity and often do research that can reach the public eye.
Let’s face it. The NY slime is a dumping ground for the unhinged libs.
Please Leave. Follow thru what you promise and say, if you’re threatening or going to leave please leave, ASAP and take your Woke/Radical Left friends etc with you. Goodbye.
You should follow them, you’re just as nuts.
Ironically, those crazy delusional voices are no different from those here screaming for liberal blood.
Welcome to America, land of the free, home of the brave. And millions and millions of crazies .
And millions and millions of crazies .
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All on the left!
Wonder if anyone in Yale will miss these three stooges
To quote Katy Perry: “……the internet is very much so a dumping ground for [the] unhinged and unhealed,”
What I would like to know is the salary/benefits package offered by the University of Toronto just to see how it stacks up to what the three received at Yale
No good health insurance! And big-time Canadian taxes.
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Gee, false-top-fact, over-the-top, irrational TDS content from the NY Times. How novel and totally unexpected. {YAWN}
It’s the NY-Slime, what do you expect.
Some hallmarks of fascism are control of freedom of speech, authoritarianism, and oligarchy. On all those counts, Biden was much more Fascistic than Trump. Remember it was Biden who enforced vax mandates and monitored religion meetings. It’s also well documented that far more billionaires support the Dems than the Rs (Reid Hoffman, Reed Hastings, Laurene Jobs, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Hans Wyss, Pritzkers, Eric and Wendy Schmidt, James Simons, Steve Spielberg, Mike Bloomberg, G&A Soros, Sheryl Sandberg, Vinod Khosla). Not to mention the corrupt Dem tie-ins with unions.