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.
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.
Oh hey look more forced conservative propaganda.
We’re at about 1933. Hitler is about to consolidate power, surround himself with only the most loyal, and purge the military of anyone outside of the ideology.
The propaganda machine will need to expand rapidly to support that effort.
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.”
"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.
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.
I guess that makes your comment woke.
to the right, all education is “wokeness” when it represents a sincere effort to understand reality.
Smells like librul in here
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.
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.
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.
“British media personality”. Until 5 seconds ago, I had forgotten the pointless prick existed.
I had to look him up. Seemingly,he’s a cheap ham mannequin in a bad suit, and using the word “personality” in connection with him is really stretching it past the point of credibility
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
In their minds, this is more akin to deprogramming.
Might be worthwhile to take the course for the ability to go into class and just call out ‘No it’s not, dumbass’ etc every day. I’ve taught undergrad, you can harass, annoy, and physically threaten a professor and you still won’t be kicked out of a course in a public university. You might even get extra privileges like make up exams for grades you disagree with.
Who are the kids they expect to sign up for these classes?
