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  If you don't want history to look poorly on your actions, you should probably make an effort to stop being an asshole.
context: The announcement is DeSantis’ latest attempt at turning Florida’s higher education spaces into incubators for far-right ideas. The governor has already unsuccessfully tried to ban workplace diversity initiatives. He also pushed right-wing higher education officials to ban discussions of “critical race theory” and prides himself on the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits public school teachers from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity.
  
  Censorship, racism, and bigotry continue to run rampant in Florida.
  They keep going at this rate and an education from a school in Florida isn't going to be worth the paper it's printed on. >
  
  A good reason not to hire graduates from Florida >
  
  When people ask where I'm from these days I tell them "Old Florida".  This dystopian, authoritarian, fascist transplant infested shithole isn't what I grew up with and I want no association with it.  Its embarrassing. >
  
  Remember when the worst part of Florida were the "Florida Man" stories?
  Pepperidge Farms Remembers. >
  
  What if diversity training was a requirement for federal grant / student loan money? >
  
  Baked into the plan. If you aren’t taking federal funds, you can try to push whatever curriculum you want. This is why so many red states are targeting teacher unions, educational boards, tenure programs, Department of Education regulations, etc., in addition to trying to syphon funds into voucher programs for private schools. They want to push out faculty that support diversity/inclusion/pedagogy, stamp out research funding for things that conservatives don’t like, and install those willing to bow to political pressures. >
  
  Florida is governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia  and racism. >
  
  He wants blacks and gays out of the State. >
  
  And progressives >
  
  In TN there's a proposed bill that would forbid medical schools and healthcare providers from requiring any DEI training. >
  
  
  “We are also going to eliminate all DEI and [critical race theory] bureaucracies in the state of Florida. No funding, and that will wither on the vine,” DeSantis said. “And I think that that’s very important because it really serves as an ideological filter, a political filter.”
  
  Yeah, a filter where only very white-washed curriculum is allowed. Anything actually dealing with the true history of our nation and others is now forbidden because it makes folks look bad.