DeSantis visits Sarasota, says colleges have become indoctrination centers

[Zorro]

Gov. Ron DeSantis lauded the work he’s done as governor on Saturday and congratulated New College of Florida President Richard Corcoran on his work in transforming the Sarasota college over the past year and a half.

He argued that universities have become ideological indoctrination centers that lack critical thinking and rigorous education. DeSantis also shared how “leftist and woke ideology” has infected corporate America, the medical field in its response to COVID and gender-affirming care, the “open border ideology” and most recently, encampments that have been hosted at various colleges in protest of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

“How does this all happen?” DeSantis said. “I think the root of it really goes back to the corruption of universities and academia. I think that has been the foundation that has put a lot of the toxicity and ideology out into various arteries in our society.”

DeSantis went on to applaud the transformation of New College, despite the school seeing its lowest retention rate of first-year students in the college’s history and the departure of more than a third of the faculty, the Herald-Tribune reported in October. A newly established athletics department at the college brought in record enrollment through athletic recruiting, but it also led to a decrease in overall grade point averages and test scores. Subsequently, the college dropped 24 spots in the U.S. News and World Report rankings of top liberal arts colleges in the country.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2024/06/01/desantis-speaks-at-new-college-warns-of-indoctrination-centers/73941447007/

[BoRaGard]

1. "Students are thinking about ideas and stuff." - DeSanctimonious (R)

"We can't allow that." - DeSanctimonious (R)

[GreenWave]

2. They are getting too smart to fall for GOP BS.

[Hugin]

3. "... ideology out into various arteries in our society."

There’s that fascist poisoning-the-blood trope again.

[ornotna]

4. Thanks Ron

One of the most highly regarded schools in the country gone to shit thanks to you.

[Johonny]

5. Ron DeSantis is too woke for the GOP

Words from his opponent in 2028 debate and with that Ron in finished in politics.

[John Shaft]

6. No, fuckface DeSantis

you're gaslighting and projecting.

Toxic motherfucker.

[sop]

7. It's widely accepted that higher education has a liberalizing effect.

"Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades."

"More than half of those with postgraduate experience (54%) have either consistently liberal political values (31%) or mostly liberal values (23%), based on an analysis of their opinions about the role and performance of government, social issues, the environment and other topics. Fewer than half as many postgrads – roughly 12% of the public in 2015– have either consistently conservative (10%) or mostly conservative (14%) values. About one-in-five (22%) express a mix of liberal and conservative opinions."

"Among adults who have completed college but have not attended graduate school (approximately 16% of the public), 44% have consistently or mostly liberal political values, while 29% have at least mostly conservative values; 27% have mixed ideological views."

"By contrast, among the majority of adults who do not have a college degree (72% of the public in 2015), far fewer express liberal opinions. About a third of those who have some college experience but do not have a bachelor’s degree (36%) have consistently liberal or mostly liberal political values, as do just 26% of those with no more than a high school degree. Roughly a quarter in each of these groups (28% of those with some college experience, 26% of those with no more than a high school education) have consistently conservative or mostly conservative values."

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

Unfortunately for Republicans, education opens students' minds, broadens their perspectives and generally makes them more accepting of other people, cultures and ideas. DeSantis and his RW henchmen want to change that.

[Easterncedar]

8. Scott Atlas, science denier, spoke

And they gave copies of his book,
“A Plague on Our House” to attendees. Well, they HAVE to give it away, don’t they?

Poor New College, it’s such a terrible loss to the world. Their students and faculty were so brilliant and creative.

[dalton99a]

9. Keep talking, asshole

[chouchou]

10. "Next thing, those logical, intelligent liberals will ruin our republican girls and boys....

....with logical and intelligent thoughts."

[kimbutgar]

11. He really must has had a terrible childhood

Unloved and not hugged.

[FloridaBlues]

12. He recently included all public schools in speech to home schooler convention

In Orlando Fl. Sick.