Summary
New College of Florida has reinstated a controversial course on “wokeness,” led by British media personality Andrew Doyle, amid criticism over its one-sided portrayal of “wokeness” as a cult.
The course’s reading list includes Doyle’s own books and works by rightwing figures like Christopher Rufo, who has claimed that antiracist government policies would bring about “an end to the constitutional order.”
The college, under Governor Ron DeSantis’s influence, is undergoing a conservative transformation that has sparked backlash from students and staff, who report discomfort with the new administration’s ideological agenda.
The course’s reinstatement reflects the college’s shift toward rightwing educational reforms.
Oh hey look more forced conservative propaganda.
led by British media personality Andrew Doyle
The course’s reading list includes Doyle’s own books
So this is just state-sanctioned propaganda from some random guy
Maybe they should pay the crazy dude in the street corner who’s shouting about the end of the world to give a course as well
I wonder if Doyle is even going to give an actual definition of the term ‘woke’
So he’s basically a real-life Gilderoy Lockheart, teaching Defense Against the Woke Arts.
Ah yes, kindness, compassion, and empathy being considered “wokeness”. Can’t have that. Much better to have hate, disgust, and cruelty.
Unironically yes. They just call those things “traditional family values.”
When my brother went to New College, it was an extremely progressive school with non-standard ideas. He is neurodivergent, so being able to structure his college education was really helpful to him and his degree got him into a standard graduate school program at a Big 10 university. He now has an MFA.
All of that has been crapped away by DeSantis for the sake of his ideology.
A dear friend of mine went there as well. He was the first trans person I knew, almost 20 years ago now, and I know he loved New College and the support he got through his transition there.
As hard as it is to see this for me, I expect it’s heartbreaking for him, and that makes me sad.
The really unfortunate thing is that this transformation will “taint” degrees from there
Absolutely. It will be associated with places like Liberty University and Bob Jones University.
"Woke"just means logic- and fact-based now. So it’s as much a “cult” as scientists were called a “cult” by religions in the past.
I guess that makes your comment woke.
didn’t Disantes ban like 40% of math books for being woke? literally MATH. In programming that’s like beefing with a spelling issue on a variable that’s used 2 times.
Oh and after they changed our math books we found a mistake or issue about every 3 days. We’re on like the 3rd edition (1st edition was the year after don’t say gay) and there’s still issues.
Isn’t state controlled re-education another one of these big bad things that only evil commies do according to these knuckle-draggers?
Imagine the cinemas we’d have if this lot were running the show after a life of everything they do being projection
I remember from an older article that it’s a very small college and the new republican dean/president/chairman (I forgot what he was) is being paid $ 700 000 per year, about $1000 per student. I’m certain that he isn’t the only person making bank from this. It seems to be a grift to funnel tax money into the pockets of friends and sycophants, and while the college board tries to make itself relevant in the eyes of their maga public, the future of the students appears to not be a consideration, because they’re not the ones paying for this circus.
Apparently fighting the republican culture war is very profitable for republican grifters.
Who are the kids they expect to sign up for these classes?
