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Re:First they came for the Iranians by helpfulanon on Thursday January 26, 2017 @02:18AM (#13489378)
What's more worrisome is how fervently anti-science the new administration is. Academics may eventually be persecuted in the US across the board - as they are already at the EPA, USDA etc - and regardless of citizenship.

I firmly believe anyone with a brain should begin making contingency plans to regroup somewhere like Australia or Japan, outside of the reaches of far-right populism. An Erdogan-style academic purge may be on the agenda and sooner than we think

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Re:First they came for the Iranians by cavisne on Thursday January 26, 2017 @02:37AM (#13489451)
when it comes to Islam Japan goes well past "far right populism". It's not a coincidence there's less than 70k Muslims in Japan.
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Re:First they came for the Iranians by endisukaj on Thursday January 26, 2017 @03:56AM (#13489813)
Well, you can't say that Japan is anti-intellectualism at least.
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Re:First they came for the Iranians by Vintila on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:24AM (#13490744)
Genuine question, is there an anti-muslim immigration policy in japan or some other force at play?
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Re:First they came for the Iranians by gspetr on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:42PM (#13493992)
That does not seem to be the case: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16347/is-islam-b...
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Re:First they came for the Iranians by akhilcacharya on Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:55AM (#13492974)
Australia and Japan aren't fantastic examples. Canada works better.
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Re:First they came for the Iranians by abandonliberty on Friday January 27, 2017 @02:30AM (#13498321)
I don't think we're far away enough
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Re:First they came for the Iranians by whenwillitstop on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:20PM (#13493783)
This couldn't be farther from the truth. People branding the current administration like this are destabilizing the country. The media in this country is on an ideological witch hunt, and you are proliferating it.
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Re:First they came for the Iranians by InitialLastName on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:43PM (#13495506)
Friend, if witches are causing irreparable damage, shouldn't do everything we can to proliferate a hunt for them?
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Re:First they came for the Iranians by nl on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:54AM (#13490053)
A "purge" isn't getting criticized for being completely wrong. That's how science works.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/fivethirtyeight-pielke-down...

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