The U.S. is exporting gender studies professors to Canada. This is the worst thing they have ever done to a foreign country 🤣 Poor Canadian taxpayers.. and students. Canada just spent half a billion dollars poaching 64 academics, three-quarters of them from the U.S., and then CTV put the most revealing quote on TV Talia Bettcher (trans philosophy / gender studies) is leaving Cal State LA for a taxpayer-funded chair at Waterloo because, in her words, it “felt unsafe for me even in Los Angeles given the increase in anti trans sentiment.” That’s not a materials scientist fleeing grant cuts. That’s an identity-politics scholar being paid by Ottawa to relocate over a political climate she dislikes. The program is sold as “doubling down on science.” Some recruits are doing storms, solvents, and health. Fine. Mixing those with “trans community resilience” chairs and equity-framed geography shows the real filter: Canada is importing people who share the government’s moral posture, then calling it “talent strategy.” Minister Joly said they saw an “opportunity to seize.” Opportunity for what—research output, or a subsidized ideological transfer? If the U.S. is cutting unstable grants, compete on labs and results. Don’t write eight-year, million-a-year cheques so someone can feel safer doing gender theory north of the border. Taxpayers should ask how many of these 64 chairs would exist if the selection criterion were “what actually scales Canada’s productivity,” not “who is fleeing the culture war.” gender studies.mp4
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