The New College of Florida has become a testing ground for Governor Ron DeSantis’s war on “wokeness” in education. The state government has shut down entire departments, gutted the office of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and fired allegedly left-wing faculty en masse. And the student body itself is also in the crosshairs. As many students look for the exits in the face of these institutional attacks, the New College of Florida is replacing them by doling out sports scholarships, recruiting a whopping 150 student athletes from primarily Christian private schools since this spring (the school’s entire student body is only 700). In this edition of ‘Choice Words,’ Dave Zirin lays out the purge unfolding at the New College of Florida, and the twisted role of college sports in DeSantis’s takeover.
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Couldn't the same be said regarding the leftist woke ideology, they cancel anyone that disagree with them without any course of intellectual discussion.
Don't understand how this guy got elected…
I am a parent of a student at New College before the purge. She is there still being a thorn in the side of them but may need to transfer to feel safe and get the education she wants. The sporty people are certainly pawns in this battle and this has been terrifying to watch in real time. It only begin on Jan 6 of 2023 and realize what he has accomplished in such a short period of time. Thank you for your take on this.
Looking from the outside I see something similar to what we have in the UK but arguably more extreme and polarised. Two parties beholden to corporate money that do not have the best interests of the population to choose from. One more socially progressive and the other more conservative and both arguably batshit crazy.
One side thinks women can have a penis and the other is happy to to turn the USA into Gilead. Neither seems like a good choice, you need to get the extremists away from the levers of power and get corporate money out of politics and engage with reality and resist the urge to see the other side as the enemy.
The system is fucking over all but a small minority, and the billionaire class is happy to see people battle over culture war distractions while they enhance they colossal wealth and union bust and sign trade deals that send jobs to cheaper labour in poorer countries. That pursue policies that increase arms sales and conflict that creates more refugees across the globe.
Be it Democrat or Republican in charge they'll overthrow a democratically elected regime if it doesn't adhere to US interests and prop up whatever dictatorial one that goes the line or provides the oil.
Actively ruining his state. Hateful views and dangerous policies based in petty hate. He won't last.
The Republicans are kicking Jesus the son of God under the bus because Ron DeSantis and others told them that Jesus most be destroyed because of his wokeness.
I can't help think, and hope that this video is highly exaggerated.
Ron DeSadtits making his state an utter shit hole while also floundering around as the least charismatic man in the Republican campaign trail is my favorite development from the circus of horrors that is the American political landscape.
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Excellent segment well said
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Yeah, cause one side picked a fight with everyone who disagreed with them in any way, and the natural, visceral response was for the opposing side to respond in kind. Welcome to the reality of your own creation.
Revoke nfl corporate charter and antitrust exemption!
Everything is political and justice.
Justice in the us is a disgusting sick joke by design from the top down
He's running his campaign on "wokeness". No wonder he's losing. Americans don't care about that. We're concerned about food and gas prices and the corrupt state stealing our tax money and giving to war profiteers who bribe them.
DeSantis isn't prefect but he is so much better than the current train wreck in the WH.
"War on wokeness" aka war on blackness. Governor DeRacist has to be impeached from the governorship.
DeSantis and good sportsmanship. Nah. They just don't go together.
Inflammatory language. Accused of all the horrible 'isms. Why not just present the policy without the rhetoric and articulate why it's bad policy??? Is that not allowed anymore? You don't like Gov Ron Desantis. I get it. Smh.
It doesn't mean I am body shaming
But desantis looks like homelander who lost diet and exercise
It’s extremely rare for an opossum to get rabies (just sayin).
😅
The wisest thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on the govt. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a good time to invest in gold, silver, and digital currencies (BTC,ETH…)
Desantis doesn't know what mask to wear daily. When a snake sheds it's skin it's still a snake and snakes will kill their own.
Ron Destupid needs to GO NOW!!!
Prager U is approved to be taught in Florida schools
It is the same agenda
ALEC
How has he got the power to do this
Woke bs extreme…Unsubscribe!?
Good. Those places are nothing more than incubation centers for Balkanization. Tucked up snug as a bug, produce nothing of value, and peddle the most toxic of agendas.
You want to wind up like Jugoslavia? Rawanda? That's where ethic grievence politics will land you, and in this country, expect the worst of the worst. I know, I witnessed it first hand.
And meanwhile the corporate-oligarchy assumes more and more power and control while the pesants bicker.