Professor explains why he’s leaving Yale for Toronto as colleges react to Trump’s threats

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💰 The Trump administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal grants to Harvard, citing the school’s response to anti-Semitism.
🛑 Princeton had several dozen of its federal grants halted.
🚶‍♂️ Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the U.S. ➡️ to teach at the University of Toronto in Canada 🇨🇦.
👪 Stanley says he’s making the move so he can “raise his kids in a country 🌍 that’s not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship 😠“.
🤔 Stanley would have wanted all universities 🏛️ to collectively challenge the notion that free speech 🗣️ and protest ✊ threaten Jewish students ✡️.
⚔️ Stanley believes the Trump administration is waging a war 💥 against universities 🏫.
🏛️ Stanley emphasizes that a university’s democratic nature 🗳️ is essential to its existence 💯.
🥺 Stanley’s children 🧒👧 are aware of the political climate 📰 and the reasons for their move 🚚💨.