Ron DeSantis

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  6/22/2022
  

  DeSantis Proposes Surveying Students, Faculty on Political Views

  "The governor did not name specific state universities or colleges with this problem. He was broad in his accusations about the higher education system and used vague anecdotes to justify the need for such a survey."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  6/23/2022
  

  Dangerous as the Plague: The History of Moral Panics over Queer "Seduction"

  by Samuel Huneke

  From the perspective of the post-Obergefell US, this year's politicized attacks on LGBTQ people—particularly as threats to the nation's youth—seem like a sudden reversal. But such attacks have a long and miserable history that has shadowed movements for queer freedom at every turn. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/8/2022
  

  Anti-CRT Legislation at Fever Pitch in States

  Suzanne Nossel of PEN America argues that legislation that dictates what can be taught is at "the top of the pyramid" in terms of the broad array of threats to free speech on campuses. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  6/1/2022
  

  DeSantis Planned Sweeping Assault on Autonomy of Public Colleges in Florida

  by Jason Garcia

  The Governor proposed a sweeping set of higher education oversight reforms that would have consolidated power over public campuses, including the hiring of professors, with boards appointed by the governor. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/18/2022
  

  It's Not the First Time Conservatives Have Feuded With Disney over LGBTQ Issues

  Despite the volume of threats to boycott, Disney has seen little damage from previous controversies like the Southern Baptist Convention's 1997 boycott over Ellen DeGeneris, theme park "Gay Days" and health benefits for same-sex partners. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  4/4/2022
  

  Faculty Committee: U of Florida Fast-Tracked DeSantis Surgeon General Pick Into Faculty Post

  The university’s faculty committee cited procedural irregularities in how Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo gained a tenured position.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/2022
  

  DeSantis Tears at the Seams of His Diverse State with Fight on "Woke" Schools

  The governor's efforts to attack what he calls "wokeness" in Florida schools is putting Ron DeSantis on a collision course with millions of teachers, students and residents in a state where multiculturalism has been part of the past and is the reality of the present. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/1/2022
  

  Glenn Youngkin's No-Guilt History of Virginia for Fragile White People

  With help from historian and Virginian Ty Seidule, Post columnist Dana Milbank asks who is served by recently proposed state laws restricting the teaching of controversial historical topics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  12/15/2021
  

  DeSantis Enlists Parent Vigilantes in Escalation of CRT Culture War

  "As for Florida teachers, why would any of them invite a lawsuit from the local MAGA commissar by suggesting their nation was anything other than the divinely blessed paradise of freedom and opportunity?"

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/31/2021
  

  Serwer: Florida Silencing Academic Critics of Disenfranchisement Echoes End of Reconstruction

  Free speech debates miss a key point: some participants don't want to protect the right to speak as much as the right of the state to use its power to end political arguments. The role of Black Floridians as citizens was once such an argument, and disenfranchisement ended it. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/1/2021
  

  The Attack on University of Florida Professors is Totalitarian

  by Silke-Maria Weineck

  Even beyond academic freedom, events in Florida signal the effort to tie the interests of the state's universities to the agenda of the state's ruling party. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/16/2021
  

  Politicians, not Migrants, are Fueling the Pandemic's Resurgence

  by Randa Tawil

  At the height of colonialism, European governments rejected calls for quarantine to keep global commerce humming, and blamed supposedly unsanitary local populations for the inevitable spread of cholera. Governors in some US states are repeating this mistake today. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  6/30/2021
  

  Will Bunch: Campus ‘Red Scare’ takes Florida back to the ’50s

  Columnist Will Bunch argues that the nationwide attack on "Critical Race Theory" echoes the anticommunist politics Hofstadter described in "The Paranoid Style," which he discusses with education professor Robert Dahlgren.

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• SOURCE: News 4 Jacksonville
  3/18/2021
  

  DeSantis Lashes out at ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Push to Overhaul Florida’s Civics Curriculum

  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the latest official to attack "Critical Race Theory" based on an understanding that the ideas are corrupting civics education by overstating the extent of racism in the US.