Professors from across the country have long been lured to Florida’s public colleges and universities, with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.
But for a swath of liberal-leaning professors, many of them holding highly coveted tenured positions, they’ve felt increasingly out of place in the Sunshine State. And some of them are pointing to the conservative administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the reason for their departures, according to The New York Times.
DeSantis, who was elected to the governorship in 2018 and was easily reelected last fall, has over the course of his tenure worked to put a conservative imprint on a state where moderation was once a driving force in state politics. In recent years, DeSantis has railed against the current process by which tenure is awarded, and with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he’s imposed conservative education reforms across the state.
Then the fascists should start fighting it, no? Why are you not pointing your multiple comments at them?
Why is it up to the rest of us to clean up their messes when they can so easily just stay in place, destroy everything they don’t like, and create the POC-free, LGBTQIA-free, non-Christian-free, democracy-free “Gilead” utopia they long for?
We already have historical evidence to tell us exactly how this is going to end. I don’t want to be there when it does – and it inevitably will. Badly.