{"id":2689,"date":"2025-05-14T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:03:34","slug":"welcome-them-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/welcome-them-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome them in."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a piece for The Conversation Canada<\/a>, my Kwantlen Polytechnic University<\/a> colleague Jeffrey Meyers<\/a> writes about Jason Stanley and Timothy Snyder, two eminent American scholars who fled Yale University and the United States, taking positions at the University of Toronto, to escape the authoritarian impulses Trump’s administration has brought to American universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stanley\u2019s father, a German Jew who fled Germany for America in 1939, carries the remembrance of fascism. Both Stanley and Snyder explore the similarities between what is occurring in Trump\u2019s America, Viktor Orban\u2019s Hungary, Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia, Xi Jinping\u2019s China and, equally chillingly, between Trump\u2019s America and Adolf Hitler\u2019s Germany<\/a>. Even prior to the first Trump presidency, Stanley already asked in his 2015 book, How Propoganda Works<\/a><\/em>, whether the U.S., \u201cthe world\u2019s oldest liberal democracy,\u201d might already have become a liberal democracy \u201cin name only?\u201d …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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As a Canadian, I would like to say America\u2019s loss is our gain, and I wish these scholars well. I am also aware that narratives of flight to Canada as refuge<\/a> have historically bolstered national myths while obscuring Canadian inequities<\/a>. My hope is that Canadians will not observe the arrival of U.S. scholars with smugness, but instead with shared concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too much cynicism might prevent us from acknowledging the importance of these … scholars\u2019 decisions to leave their country and come to ours at this particular time in history. However, my hope is also that we are also inspired by their considerable truth-telling skills to demand Canada also do better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I agree with each of these points. I would add that while several nations seem to be courting scholars and professors who seek and\/or need to leave the United States<\/a>, Canada has yet to do so in any public way that I have seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 27: <\/strong>We can get some wonderful students up here, too<\/a>, now that the Trump administration “has ordered US embassies worldwide to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students as it prepares to implement comprehensive social media screening for all international applicants.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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