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PatrickforB

(15,109 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 09:43 AM Sep 28

Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right

Scientific racism???? Sigh.

New College of Florida (NCF) will host the extremist writer Steve Sailer, who has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”, at a college-branded public event next month.

New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution, and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior Christopher Rufo. That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” Richard Corcoran as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.

DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College – like abolishing disciplines, removing bathroom signage and denying professors tenure – have seen the departure of more than a third of the faculty, and given rise to myriad legal actions.


Here's the link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/28/new-college-of-florida-hosting-extremist-writer-steve-sailer
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Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right (Original Post) PatrickforB Sep 28 OP
Need a new term for universities that are Medieval Brain Warping Schools bucolic_frolic Sep 28 #1

bucolic_frolic

(47,005 posts)
1. Need a new term for universities that are Medieval Brain Warping Schools
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 09:47 AM
Sep 28

These are civilization in retrograde and breakdown. The graduates will be unable to keep up with thinking human beings.

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