Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
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they got their PhDs in common sense
Cmon, guys you will be fine as long as you're really really white.
Nope.
Bro, obviously we are targeting women now too.
Only if you are white enough to blend in with the walls
...with the right kinds of ideas and speech
I'm a graduate student in Canada and my whole university is advising against accepting positions in the US or traveling there. Seems like this is going to be the new normal
that's perfectly reasonable at the moment