Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’
New College of Florida (NCF) will host the extremist writer Steve Sailer, who has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”, at a college-branded public event next month.
New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution, and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior Christopher Rufo. That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” Richard Corcoran as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.
DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College – like abolishing disciplines, removing bathroom signage and denying professors tenure – have seen the departure of more than a third of the faculty, and given rise to myriad legal actions.
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.
They keep going right more and more, they’re gonna end up on another planet
So, pilot-testing institutions for Hitler youth?
This is what I picture when I think of Florida.
I hate it here
I’ve met people of worth no matter where my travels have taken me, and having said that, I am extremely comfortable with the following blanket statement: The people of South Florida (SE) are straight trash.
