I’m furious.
We’ve gotten official word that “several” students at my college have had their visas pulled (among the hundreds reported across the country). No reasons given. My school is about as activist as a jar of peanut butter.
My other international students are worried. Is there a list? Who’s being pulled. Is any politics bad? Now they’re afraid to express themselves.
If you say “good,” you have my utter contempt.
My foreign students came to America to learn, both the specifics of their majors, but also the larger lessons America has to teach about freedom and success, about being able to explore ideas and experiment with different versions of themselves.
And Trump is taking that away. Be quiet. Keep your head down. Free speech is for others, not you. Just like back home.
If you’re thrilled because all those blue-haired woke kids are getting their comeuppance, you should know that during the culture wars, my international students have always been a breath of fresh air, challenging woke shibboleths because they came from worlds where none of that made sense. I’d gladly take 10 kids from China over 10 kids from a progressive Brooklyn private school (sorry Zoe).
But I’m sure the Trump administration is carefully vetting their deportation lists, not just doing random searches of social media sites for dangerous words like “trans,” or “Palestine,” or “free speech.”
Because we can trust the government.
I had Spotify AI do a playlist to get me through the next four years. It's just Azathoth, who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes on repeat.
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