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I saw a Vice (I think) piece about this. Basically Desantis really took an interest in this one random college and has steamrolled all over it. They interviewed students who thought they were going to one school, but everything changed not long after they got there.
But it’s so fucking weird that he’s focusing all this energy on this small school. I don’t want to go full tinfoil hat, but this is so random.
I think the one buddy of his getting a $699,000 salary as the new school president speaks for itself. The rest is just theatrics while his allies grift public money.
It's not so random. It was one of the most progressive schools in the country with a very left-wing student body. This was a targeted attack on what DeSantis viewed as an indoctrination school.
My brother went to New College. Other than being in Florida, it was a great school that DeSantis has destroyed.
Oh wow, that’s interesting insight, thanks for the details. I’m in Texas and it’s like a pissing contest between Abbott & Desantis to be the most shitty state.
You don't have to go tinfoil hat... they just opened up am "austin university" in TX that's supposed to be a conservative speaking university... whatever the fuck that means in the actual education since (which I fully assume is not what they care about)
So, pilot-testing institutions for Hitler youth?
This is what I picture when I think of Florida.
I hate it here
Look at that “goatee.” It’s super weird.
Reminds me of Martin Wolf.
MAGA is eating out the new College of Florida from inside, just as the larva of the spider wasp eats out the host in which it has been laid.
It also applies to the GOP. Hopefully it doesn’t apply to the whole USA.
New College has the double whammy of being Florida’s most liberal public college, and also by far its smallest. It didn’t have nearly the cultural insulation to survive DeSantis even as well as The larger schools who have alumni scattered across various levels of business ands government. More’s the pity. New College was something special.
UF for instance slow played everything its imported, uselessly-conservative president Ben Sasse thought he might want to do until he got bored of spending the school’s money on his friends in Washington — as in they literally got jobs with UF but never moved to Gainesville — and finally quit.
What does it mean to be the "most liberal college" in florida? Is this in the actual college administration? As my understanding and experince indicates that colligate student bodies trend liberally to begin with, and I've seen nothing to indicate that would change even in the hellhole that is florida. (Yeah rich coming from Tennessee, I know, but I'm genuinely curious)
New College WAS a school where kids sort of designed their own major, did a project or thesis and defended it. The Veggie Bus that ran on used oil from McDonald's fryers was a New College project. It was good for hyper achievers who didn't fit into a canned curriculum. I don't know that I'd call it "liberal" but it was progressive and challenging.
This apparently annoyed the fuck out of the governor for some reason. Maybe he just doesn't like the idea of smart weirdos. But it's those people who move us forward, the smart ones who don't fit in.
This reeks of "cool guy in high school gets mocked in college by the smart, nerdy (liberal) kids for saying something idiotic, then never stops 'seeking revenge' for it." Meanwhile, the people who mocked him probably don't even live in the state anymore and have no memory of the incident.
"MAGA is eating out" - this is happening to the colleges in N. Idaho as well, possibly all of ID. Schools losing accreditation, admin and faculty bailing, students unable to xfer credits... a big shit-show that fucks over students but makes the local Fascists think that they're "taking back education". Got kids? Send 'em to FL or ID and they can get an unaccredited PhD in Ignorance Studies in a year or less.
Sounds like real live, actual fascism.
They keep going right more and more, they're gonna end up on another planet
I hear Elon is going to start a colony on Mars, they should go and demonstrate how wrong we were
Remember how bad we thought Rick Scott was? Almost enough to make one nostalgic... Almost.
Disgusting.
Burn it down