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Posted on 12/30/2025 12:08:07 PM PST by chickenlips
The New York Times rolled out another installment of its favorite genre — Ron DeSantis, Destroyer of All That Is Good™ — this time lamenting that New College of Florida, long a leftist sandbox where grades were optional, and gender theory reigned, has been rudely interrupted by a governor who thinks college should actually teach … well … college.
“At the state school, gender studies is out. ‘The Odyssey’ is required reading. A Charlie Kirk statue is coming. Has one ideological bubble replaced another?” the Times hyperventilated.
The Times paints the picture with a heavy brush: gender studies out, Homer’s “Odyssey” in, DEI dismantled, and conservative professors hired. Athletics are expanding, buildings are being repaired, enrollment is rising — but to the Times, the real scandal is that the ideological monopoly of the Left is no longer protected turf. The narrative is clear: New College used to be an enlightened paradise of “nonconformists,” until Florida Republican Gov. DeSantis staged a “conservative takeover” and imposed a curriculum centered on the Western canon.
The outlet breathlessly notes that some faculty and students bailed, others grumbled that freshmen are being forced to read a 3,000-year-old epic, and professors wonder whether there will still be “room for people like them.” The Times frames the reforms not as an attempt to restore academic rigor, but as a right-wing project creeping toward total control — repeatedly warning that the college is “moving toward the ideological right.”
Yet, enrollment is up. Faculty hiring is up. State investment is stabilizing the school. Buildings once covered in mold are now being brought back into use. In other words, the place was collapsing, and DeSantis did something about it.
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Yes.
DeSantis is the best governor in the country, and the best governor the country has had in recent history. He belongs in the White House someday. I’d rather Vance had him as his running mate in 2028 than Rubio.
“Ron DeSantis, Destroyer of All That Is Good™”
lol, that’s good.
See: Return of the Strong Gods; Nationalism, Populism, and the future of the West by R.R. Reno
The irony, obviously lost on the Times, is that the Iliad and Odyssey provide a masterwork in gender studies and gender relationships.
Excellent point.
When does the Slimes change its name to Der Stürmer?
The NYT attacks De Santis…again? He, like Trump, is in their crosshairs just for being who is. Who cares what their gripe du jour even is?
Another win - go Desantis.
Give credit where it is due. Kudos to DeSantis.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has actively pursued measures to eliminate gender studies programs within the state’s public university system. This has primarily been achieved through legislative action and the strategic appointment of conservative trustees to university boards.
New College of Florida in August 2023, the Board of Trustees for the New College of Florida, largely appointed by DeSantis, voted to abolish the university’s gender studies program, becoming the first public university in the U.S. to take such action.
This move was part of a larger effort to transform the school into a “classical” liberal arts institution. Hundreds of books from the former Gender and Diversity Center were subsequently discarded, a move criticized as an act of censorship.
In 2023, the Florida House gave initial approval to wide-ranging legislation (HB 999) backed by DeSantis that aimed to eliminate majors or minors related to critical race theory, as well as “radical” feminist or gender theories across the state university system. This bill also targeted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
Return on Investment Study: In late 2024 and early 2025, the state proposed a study on the return on investment of women’s and gender studies programs at other state universities, such as the University of Florida, a move seen by some as an attempt to justify cuts based on economic arguments rather than ideological ones.
These actions are part of the governor’s broader “anti-woke” agenda aimed at reshaping Florida’s public education system by curtailing discussions on race and gender identity that he views as “indoctrination” rather than education.
“ Has one ideological bubble replaced another?” the Times hyperventilated.”
Let us fervently hope so.
L
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