A professor at Yale University said Monday he would be leaving his post and the country over the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cbrutal attack\u201d on free speech.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe message is that they\u2019re going to do a kind of stochastic terrorism against our country,\u201d Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy with a focus on fascism, told MSNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re going to target people one by one so that those who are in fear will shut up, essentially,\u201d added Stanley, an American who was born in New York.<\/p>\n President Trump has launched broad ideological attacks on America’s colleges and universities, seeking to ban diversity initiatives, cracking down on transgender athlete policies and threatening the immigration status of multiple foreign-born students and professors. <\/p>\n Schools including the University of Maine, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University have had their funding targeted by the administration, with Columbia quickly rolling over and acquiescing to Trump’s demands<\/a>. <\/p>\n Stanley, who has accepted a position at the University of Toronto, said the administration\u2019s push to urge people to remain silent about their views is working and impacting on-campus communities across the country.<\/p>\n \u201cUniversities are filled with fear already. They\u2019re ceasing to make public statements. They\u2019re not banding together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now they\u2019re targeting noncitizens for, you know, writing in student newspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n