"The crucifixion of decent scholars in academia has got to stop — or the tens of billions flowing in the pipeline to support it has got to stop."

Dov Fischer writes in part in the American Spectator of efforts to get rid of or suspend Professor Jacobson (Legal Insurrection blog) and other free-thinking academics.

This is what Stalin did, what Hitler did, what Mao did. At some point in a fascist, communist, Nazi, or other totalitarian repressive society, in order to institutionalize a nationwide mindset built around a set of defining principles from which no deviation is permitted, the authorities start canceling and removing those in academia and among the intelligentsia who do not follow in lockstep goose step. One by one, they take them out. Despite leftist protestations about “academic freedom,” they actually remove thinkers who do not perfectly align to the narrative. It is terrible. Nazi Germany had no use for science professors who refused to teach and profess that racial science is true, that Jews and Blacks are born genetically as subhumans. Even though Hitler was a short, brown-haired, brown-eyed Austrian, he professed he was an Aryan, and what professor who wanted to keep his job or head disagreed? In the Soviet Union, they canceled out Prof. Vitali Rubin, a world-famous Sinologist, expert on Chinese literature and culture, when he declared a desire to move to Israel. In China, they force-marched professors to their deaths as part of the great Cultural Revolution.

It starts in academia, as the totalitarians literally clear out all dissenting thinkers and thoughts, crafting a monolithic mindset. Until now, their main tactic has been to deny tenure in the first place to conservatives. Accordingly, many conservatives hide their views for seven to 10 years until they get tenure. Now comes the next step: to cancel out those who somehow got through. As an American citizen, I ask myself, “How is it that this burgeoning dictatorship has such power even though the entire dictatorship depends completely on government funding?” We the taxpayers, we the people, pay the tens of billions that empower this anti-American system. We not only supported it under Democrats. But it has been funded and enabled equally during the Republican presidencies of Reagan (1980 and 1984), First Bush (1988), Second Bush (2000 and 2004), and yes even under Trump–De Vos — six of the last 10 cycles — and still the universities, for 40 years, have crafted a leftist totalitarian regime, now manifested in two generations of their graduates, with federal funding right under the noses of the president of the United States and the secretaries of education.

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