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If you are curious to hear more about this, you can read the following articles, for a start: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-fled-

by GuiA 10y ago

If you are curious to hear more about this, you can read the following articles, for a start: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-fled-fascism.html http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-... (and the related documentary) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1991-11-03/the-soviet-brain-drain-is-the-u-dot-s-dot-brain-gain https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1991-11-03/the-sovie... >If something is going on at the moment that is relevant, name the specific thing. Trying to blame the whole group now is just silly pandering. Huh yes, how about the current executive order ban on muslim countries, and the general eagerness of the current administration to purge the US of many kinds of immigrants who are there completely legally? Many of my Iranian coworkers - most with PhDs from US universities - are affected by this. Many academic conferences I participate in are experiencing problems because organizers or speakers didn't get visas. Several professors are telling me they had to pass on promising applicants due to visa concerns. Anyone in an academic/research environment right now will tell you these things. > Why did you feel that it was necessary to inject political commentary into this? I'm really tired of hearing armchair politicians or regurgitation of political pundits. This is hacker news not r/Politics. And I'm tired of techies thinking politics can be refactored into its neat own class, properly abstracted out of any other activity they take part in. Everything is inherently political, and aspiring to "change the world" through your startup or work is obviously so. Regarding your unhappiness with me calling the current regime fascist... well, when the president in power has insinuated the assassination of his opponents, encouraged his supporters to engage in violence, been spinning outlandish lies about the former president wiretapping him, etc, well I call that fascism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

monksy 10y ago
> Huh yes, how about the current executive order ban on muslim countries, and the general eagerness of the current administration to purge the US of many kinds of immigrants who are there completely legally? Many of my Iranian coworkers - most with PhDs from US universities - are affected by this. Many academic conferences I participate in are experiencing problems because organizers or speakers didn't get visas. Several professors are telling me they had to pass on promising applicants due to visa concerns. Anyone in an academic/research environment right now will tell you these things. That's exactly what I'm talking about. That's relevant, doesn't pander. >If you are curious to hear more about this, you can read the following articles, for a start:http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-.. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-.... This is great, it also can be blamed on the government then.. because it's hindsight.. you've seen the lasting effects of what happened.
Banthum 10y ago
>when the president in power has insinuated the assassination of his opponents, encouraged his supporters to engage in violence, been spinning outlandish lies about the former president wiretapping him, etc, well I call that fascism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Consider looking up the definition, because the definition of fascism is not "having a leader who makes dumb statements". Nor is this word a label for "a politician who makes you feel really bad emotions". It means a certain type of government policy.
- kbenson 10y ago
  > It means a certain type of government policy. Did you actually look up the word? All the sources I'm seeing[1][2][3] also say that it can be used or is commonly used to denote someone with authoritarian or extreme right-wing views. 1: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+fascism https://www.google.com/search?q=define+fascism 2: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fascism?s=t http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fascism?s=t 3: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fascism https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fascism

by GuiA 10y ago

monksy 10y ago

> Huh yes, how about the current executive order ban on muslim countries, and the general eagerness of the current administration to purge the US of many kinds of immigrants who are there completely legally? Many of my Iranian coworkers - most with PhDs from US universities - are affected by this. Many academic conferences I participate in are experiencing problems because organizers or speakers didn't get visas. Several professors are telling me they had to pass on promising applicants due to visa concerns. Anyone in an academic/research environment right now will tell you these things. That's exactly what I'm talking about. That's relevant, doesn't pander. >If you are curious to hear more about this, you can read the following articles, for a start:http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-.. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/23/movies/european-minds-who-.... This is great, it also can be blamed on the government then.. because it's hindsight.. you've seen the lasting effects of what happened.

Banthum 10y ago

>when the president in power has insinuated the assassination of his opponents, encouraged his supporters to engage in violence, been spinning outlandish lies about the former president wiretapping him, etc, well I call that fascism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Consider looking up the definition, because the definition of fascism is not "having a leader who makes dumb statements". Nor is this word a label for "a politician who makes you feel really bad emotions". It means a certain type of government policy.

kbenson 10y ago
> It means a certain type of government policy. Did you actually look up the word? All the sources I'm seeing[1][2][3] also say that it can be used or is commonly used to denote someone with authoritarian or extreme right-wing views. 1: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+fascism https://www.google.com/search?q=define+fascism 2: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fascism?s=t http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fascism?s=t 3: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fascism https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fascism