Professor flees Yale, U.S. for Canada due to ‘rise in fascism’

The seemingly perpetually angry philosophy professor who once exclaimed “fuck those assholes” to those who differed with his views on homosexuality is leaving Yale and his country — because fascism is coming. - Dave Huber - Associate Editor 

PBS and NPR this past week gave Jason Stanley wide berth to air his complaints about the still-fledgling Trump second term, during which he compared the current situation to “Jewish intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s.”...

“[T]he federal government, this fascist regime, has figured out a way to target funds to universities,” Stanley told NPR. “And what we’re seeing are democratic institutions across the United States, including universities, capitulate to these demands.”

Stanley said fighting antisemitism was an “entirely fake reason” to pull funding from universities, and claimed it’s actually increasing anti-Jewish sentiment...