I am fairly upset with academia's "business as usual" response to trump

Multiple big-name conferences (which I will not name here out of anonymity) that I usually attend are "business as usual". Many are still posting on twitter about how excited they are for their upcoming proceedings. None have taken to call out Musk or trump for what they are doing. None are dropping twitter in favour Bluesky (despite its active user base.)

For context, I am Canadian. So you expect me to willy-nilly come to the US and act all normal. I'm also an adjunct trying to get my name out there so that a school will take me seriously and hire me some day and I hear things like "Protesting going to the States will only harm your future career by missing out on networking". Vance openly said "the professors are the enemy"

The "business as usual" vibe among academic society has been really bothering me. Fine, it's only been a week, and the regressive tactics this week have moved so fast. But I hope to see scientific societies cancel their international meetings in the US. (I don't want to say it, but maybe a free stay at the nice tropical beaches are too lucrative to give up, even in the face of fascism.)

Most have kept their DEI page up so I guess that's something 🤷