"Public" universities aren't free, conservatives
Do you want to make a middle class parent of a college-aged student laugh? Complain about how "your tax dollars" are paying for their kid's education.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis this week created a stir when he signed HB 233, a bill aimed at the state's public universities "to annually assess intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity at certain institutions." Decrying his state's institution's of higher education as "hotbeds for stale ideology," DeSantis said, "That's not worth tax dollars and not something we're going to be supporting moving forward."
The methodology for this proposed assessment, an "objective, nonpartisan, and statistically valid survey," has not been articulated. But the message — that as DeSantis says, "You have orthodoxies that are promoted and other viewpoints are shunned, or even suppressed. We don't want that in Florida" — is clear. Our schools, our rules.
This notion that America's universities are now, in the words of the Florida governor who graduated from Yale, "intellectually repressive environments," is of course a load of BS. It's a disingenuous argument from a politically ambitious Republican who got his law degree at Harvard, one who now claims a "firmly-held opinion that taxpayer-funded schools, colleges and universities should be places for education — not indoctrination."
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