All’esperto americano antifascismo è stato impedito di volare in Spagna all’aeroporto

I am pleased that my country, Austria, recently announced 25 post docs moving from the US to some of our institutions with a 500k grant each (I think it was post docs, but in any case researchers) in mostly MINT. There were selection committees and as far as I could tell all of them sounded like innovative people in fields relevant to both research and the economy, so just what we need.

But why would anyone need this guy? To agitate against the US from European soil and worsen relations?

Uh oh.

If I were this guy I’d quickly take my family and try to cross the border to Canada or Mexico and then fly from there.

Looks like the fascist Trump regime starts to prohibit it’s critics from leaving the reach of it’s henchmen. Probably not much longer before they’ll be rounded up and sent to some camps, as ICE is already doing it with migrants (or whoever they think is a migrant)

immigrants ,political opposition , teachers , the shit is getting real play by play nazi shit

Boy am I glad to have gotten out in the end of June. Things are going way faster than I expected, and I do not have a rosy view. Holy sh*t

Exit visas in action.

So I did some digging for (probably the majority of) those who either weren’t interested in doing that or didn’t bother to read the article.

The man is a historian, Dr. Mark Bray. He’s a university professor who is nicknamed by some of his own students as “Dr. Antifa” and wrote an Antifa book called “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook”.

It is alleged by his students that Dr. Bray is a participant in some level of Antifa activities, financially backs them (he donated 50% or more of his earnings from his Antifa book to the International Anti-Fascist Defense fund) and openly promoted militant political violence against conservatism and/or fascist elements in society, as well as more explicit support of terrorist acts to be taken against public figures, such as Bill O’rielly. Evidentially, Dr. Bray used to teach at the Ivy League university Dartmouth College, but was removed in 2017 for his endorsement of political violence, which is how he ended up at Rutgers University.

These details and more came out with a petition that some of his students openly requested the administration of Rutgers University to remove Dr. Bray, but all of this remained local news at best until Turning Point USA more recently (as in, literally a few weeks ago) discovered the story and proceeded to shotgun it all over social media, making it national news.

In the weeks since, Dr. Bray has claimed that he has received threats, including one death threat, and planned to move his family to Europe for one year until things calmed down. Dr. Bray has defended himself, saying attempts are being made to paint him as being like the people he researches, and denies he is or ever was a member of any Antifa group. It was only after reaching the airport and about to board that his family’s flight was suddenly cancelled, seemingly without cause or reason. No reason was given by Dr. Bray or the airline and his flight was rebooked for the next day, Thursday (i.e., today) without incident.

***In the end, no one knowns why his first flight was cancelled, but it only delayed his family’s move by one day. He’s not trapped in the country or stuck at home, he’s very likely in Spain right now.***

I’ll say this now, for all the news articles and coverage of this I had to follow, this just seems like pretty typical airport shenanigans that most people run into, myself included, where flights can get overbooked or cancelled for stupid reasons or no reason. Take all of that how you will.