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      There are two sides to the brain drain. First are the researchers into things the government doesn’t like, who will leave if they have the means to.

      But the second is that with all of our hostility to foreign nationals right now, even the ones who come from countries the government likes will think twice about applying for positions here.

      The net result is that the brightest minds will go elsewhere.

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        It’s like a federal version of the same thing red states were doing. I left a rust belt state over a decade ago because it was clear the state was going down the tubes.

        They’re making America Mississippi again (MAMA).

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        There are also all those, in both humanities and sciences, whose projects or departments are denied funding for ideological reasons.

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    Stanley recently wrote for the Guardian about a new Department of Education directive that said teaching about systemic racism and other topics could be grounds for a civil rights violation, according to the Trump administration’s legal interpretations. Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”.

    The fascists are still robbing their opponents of the language of dissent by turning its meaning on its head. It is now a “civil rights violation” to claim that there is racism, homophobia, transphobia or sexism in the USA. Civil rights now means protecting the supremacy of straight white men.