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  Something something cancel culture.
context: Call it what it is. This is a 3-alarm, bright red, fascist move. >
  
  
  Call it what it is. This is a 3-alarm, bright red, fascist move.
  
  A dry-run at this college before its implemented at all of Florida's public universities that the Governor is allowed to appoint members to the board of trustees on. >
  
  No room for any quippy remarks this time around, just have to  be candid with it: DeSantis' Florida is insanely fascist. 
  Between the insurance crisis and climate change crisis and this, I have no idea why anyone would want to live in this state. 
  Even from a Floridian Republican standpoint, he's utterly useless. What practical thing has he done for them? All of this Culture War BS does nothing. It's so utterly baffling that they're unable to see this as pandering without substance for anything other than his blatantly-visible presidential campaigning. >
  
  Bingo!  Spot on. >
  
  This is DeSantis trying to remove all progressive thinking and ideology from the state of Florida.
  DeSantis isn't doing this just to remove political bias.  His own Department of Education Commissioner has literally said that he wants New College to become the Hillsdale College of the South.  For those unfamiliar with Hillsdale, it is a private Christian college in Michgian that has an unabashed and overtly conservative curriculum.  Over the past several years, Hillsdale College leaders have been teaming up with GOP governors to implement their curriculum in elementary and secondary public schools across the country. >
  
  Thing is I never went to college. College didn't teach me to lean progressive it was actually Republicans and their actions that made me the way I am politically. >
  
  The New College is a top-notch liberal arts school and a politically liberal enclave not just in deeply red Florida, but in the county where it is located, too. Ron DeSantis overhauled the college with new conservative trustees, who fired its president. >
  
  The New College ~~is~~ was a top-notch liberal arts school >
  
  Your degree at this institution is now worthless. >
  
  Well, future degrees will be. >
  
  The Reich tactics. >
  
  I’m really really glad I don’t live in Florida. Unfortunately this might become a nationwide crisis within the next couple of election cycles if this is left unchecked >
  
  Strike that school off your list. >
  
  ~~school~~ state >
  
  There’s nothing wrong with teaching Western Civ, but when Western Civ was so prominent in education it was pre-globalization. It’s a big, diverse world that’s now deeply interconnected through air travel and trade, and Republicans act like it’s still the 1500’s. An emphasis on Western Civilization to the exclusion of learning about the history, language, and culture of non-Western nations is just a poor education in today’s world. 
  Many Republicans seem hell-bent on dumbing down this nation. If they succeed, they will destroy the American economy. Indoctrination driven by bigotry and the need to create “others” to demonize will not lead to creativity, innovation, and prosperity. >
  
  Just the fact that you speak of globalization as if it might be a good thing makes you an enemy of the US in their eyes. >
  
  Every student should just quit and transfer.
  The school would have no income and fold. >
  
  I imagine that's the point. Desantis and conservatives don't want education in Florida. Either the school will become a propaganda machine and conservative students will flock to attend a school that espouses their "values" or the school goes bankrupt and closes entirely. It's a win/win for conservatives. >
  
  It's not though. Tuition money fleeing the state is bad for the state. I mean, I get that Desantis doesn't care, because he's running for President in 2 years, but other Republicans will. >
  
  They don't want to shut the school down.  They want to keep tuition money in the state.  They just want someone else's tuition money, conservatives instead of liberals.