Every few days brings fresh dispatches from Florida’s higher education wars. The media rush to print sob stories about academic racists who are banned from teaching that all white people are evil.
The latest from the Orlando Sentinel has the state assembling a list of all the equity hacks to see how bad the problem has gotten.
And on Thursday, Florida House Speaker Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, sent letters to presidents of the 12 state institutions, requesting records including lists of all diversity, equity and inclusion employees; a description of their responsibilities; and their salaries.
The purpose, he wrote, was to ensure students are receiving an education without “promoting an aggressively ideological agenda under the guise of diversity, equity and inclusion,” and to assess the “costs and benefits” of these initiatives.
Renner’s request follows one from DeSantis’ office last week, which sought a “comprehensive list of all staff, programs and campus activities” related to critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion at colleges and universities. Faculty unions decried the inquiry, saying they feared it could chill free speech on their campuses.
Isn’t chilling speech the whole thing of equity, woke mobs, hotlines reporting microaggressions and all the other culture war fascism?
The difference is that the DeSantis administration is making sure that taxpayer money is being properly spent on academics, not equity.
There was no concern from the media about the chilling effects on free speech of struggle sessions, indoctrination, and firing people for perceived offenses, spewing hate toward entire populations and need I go on?
And faculty members say they’ve seen other signs that the governor has gained a foothold on their campuses, including the removal of the words “social justice” from the name of an office at UCF, which has been rebranded as the Office of Civil Discourse. The words “equity” and “equal” were also stripped from the office’s webpage.
The horror, the humanity.
The Office of Civil Discourse suggests that how we treat other people is what matters whereas social justice insists that the ‘oppressed’ can do whatever they like and no one else can protest.
“Civil discourse” will now begin to mean the same thing as “diversity, equity and inclusion,” which means homogeneity, inequity and exclusion.
Eliminating weasel words would help clarify the necessary thought to have ANY discourse — civil or otherwise. True words spoken in any manner are preferable to weasel words spoke with civility.
This ignores the indisputable fact the DEI leadership has been finding damning evidence of whatever it is they’re looking for everywhere they look.
In every instance, White are culpable. Just ask the leadership.
The only remedy is looting the Treasury.
The days of relegating college faculty to wine and cheese eccentrics abiding over our children for four years of fun and imagination, but otherwise of no real consequence are over. With the greatest treasure of Western civilization and the Enlightenment in their hands, these implanted Marxists have chosen to ignore it all, and put out a inferior product of twisted minds with twisted ideas subversive to life itself.
Narcissistic,, Machiavellian, sociopaths are the end product of a Marxist education, the same as it always was.
And that is the exact point for this subversive Marxists. They delight in the killing fields that their ideals have ended up producing every single time they have been put into practice.
The only joy that creatures from hell are afforded is when they bring others down below the level of their own misery.
It is not as if the history of Marxism in the world is unknown at this point, neither its effects, nor its methods.
I LIKE wine and cheese. Gruyere today and Swiss tomorrow.
My girlfriend is mad at me so I’m doing some of the stuff I used to love. Wining, dining and going for hikes. She’s not around to nag me.
Changing college practices will take constant monitoring. Changing names of an office does not change the smell of roses or whatever the office emits. Changing the name of the commissar to commissioner is not enough if it is still a commie-tsar.