First they came for the CommunistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a CommunistThen they came for the SocialistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a SocialistThen they came for the trade unionistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a trade unionistThen they came for the JewsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a JewThen they came for meAnd there was no one leftTo speak out for me.
Well.
It would appear that down south at the moment, the big players in the science geek game have decided that they will not speak out for them and theirs as reported by Joel Achenbach and Carolyn Johnson in The Washington Post:
...Some of the nation’s largest professional scientific and medical associations are still trying to decide how best to respond to the Trump administration’s aggressive intervention. Major research universities have been similarly cautious in their responses. The generally muted reaction, according to leaders in the research community, is partly due to the rapid pace of the executive orders, the vague nature of their wording and the judicial interventions...
To which I say hogwash.
Look.
These are dangerous times.
And acquiescing in advance is not going to make things any less so.
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