‘Far from ideal’: DeSantis’s war on ‘woke’ colleges goes painfully awry

[Phys251]

‘Far from ideal’: DeSantis’s war on ‘woke’ colleges goes painfully awry

Republican Florida governor’s attack on universities suffers twin embarrassments of book dump and spending scandal

www.theguardian.com

It has been a rough month for Ron DeSantis’s rightwing rebranding of higher education in Florida. Embarrassments at two high-profile universities where the Republican governor has been waging his culture war against “woke” have forced his administration into something of a cleanup.

Sarasota’s New College, the once liberal arts school subjected to a “hostile takeover” by well-rewarded, ultra-conservative DeSantis allies, was exposed by the city’s Herald-Tribune for dumping thousands of library books, including a clear-out of its gender and diversity center.

This is what right-wing culture wars do. No progress, no benefit to education, just mindless censorship.

 

[Felis Leo]

Unfortunately for DeSantis, as much as he wants to govern like a Fascist, he is not the head of state of a country, like Hungary or Turkey. He is the head of government of a constituent state of our Federal Republic, so he cannot push as far as he would want. If fascists are restrained and cannot take full control over a democratic society, people eventually see them for the empty, sad, strange figures that they are, and people will vote appropriately.

 

[Rumpel]

Unfortunately for DeSantis, as much as he wants to govern like a Fascist, he is not the head of state of a country, like Hungary or Turkey. He is the head of government of a constituent state of our Federal Republic, so he cannot push as far as he would want. If fascists are restrained and cannot take full control over a democratic society, people eventually see them for the empty, sad, strange figures that they are, and people will vote appropriately.

he never will be