Ron DeSantis announces plan to block DEI programs in state colleges

[Jilly_in_VA]

Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced plans this week to block state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory in his latest attack on Black and LGBTQ+ people in the public education system.

The second-term governor, who is widely expected to launch a 2024 White House bid in the late spring or early summer, previously blocked a new advanced placement course on African American studies from being taught in high schools, saying it violates state law, and championed a “don’t say gay” law prohibiting lessons about sexual orientation or gender identity in the state’s primary schools.

DeSantis has pursued an aggressive series of policies to block teaching or discussion about America’s racist past and present, making a name for himself in a national Republican party still defined by the legacy of Donald Trump, who famously mobilized white voters’ racism and resentment of attempts to change the nation’s racial hierarchy into a winning bid for the White House.

Last year, DeSantis signed legislation, dubbed the “Stop Woke Act,” that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses. The law bars instruction that says members of one race are inherently racist or should feel guilt for past actions committed by others of the same race, among other things.

In his new effort to restrict diversity efforts at public colleges, DeSantis pledged at a news conference that critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs, known as DEI, would get “no funding, and that will wither on the vine”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/02/ron-desantis-block-dei-program-state-colleges-florida

[republianmushroom]

1. they will goose step to the goose step to the DeSantis tune and no other.

[Magoo48]

2. Don't know how you feel, but I live the Republic of California; we/I will no be fascist here.

[Ocelot II]

3. When did diversity, equity and inclusion become bad things to have at a university?

That's a rhetorical question, of course; we know when those things became bad in the opinions of some.

[Me.]

4. In Wonder How Far Will Be Too Far With THis Guy?

[halfulglas]

5. How far the Republican party has run away from Lincoln.

It's not just Florida. I know quite a few mostly Republicans who think that any form of effort of forced equity or inclusion means favoritism toward "others" and means it's unfair to white people. That equal rights means bias against white people because it means you have to actually consider race in the equation (you know, the people who insist they are color-blind, "I don't see black or white&quot . The ones who insist they LOVE MLK because they know 2 of his sentences.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. How does he get to make these decisions? Thought universities were run by a

board of regents or trustees.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. He's replacing them

That's what he just did to the New College of Florida and the students are FURIOUS!

[Pharlo]

8. Well, I think the appropriate response to this would be to ask

"Why does Ron DeSantis hate God?