They hate education because the educated hate them. ‘He feels empowered’: DeSantis kicks off takeover of second liberal Florida school www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... - ThreadSky

jeffjarvis.bsky.social • 44 days ago

They hate education because the educated hate them.
‘He feels empowered’: DeSantis kicks off takeover of second liberal Florida school
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/ron-desantis-university-west-florida-conservative

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g-stull.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ignorant people are easier to control.

kbkorb.bsky.social•44 days ago

Because the educated are better connected to reality and less susceptible to their lies.

prophetyeshua.com•44 days ago

My experience is that dumb people are offended by the mere presence of smart people for no reason.
Schopenhauer said the same, I just found a youtube video that spoke of recent (2021) research saying the same thing, but I guess the youtuber would rather his video be linked than the research itself.

corbetto.bsky.social•44 days ago

Name a bigger political achievement the GOP has EVER had than its decades’ long war on public education, civics, and science. It will take generations to undue the damage they have done, if it’s possible at all.

michelebella.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yet DeSantis is educated at an Ivy League school, with all the opportunities that he's denying these folks. These people are monsters.

bluetose.bsky.social•44 days ago

Florida yall need to vote this jerk out of office.

gastropoda.bsky.social•44 days ago

My underpaid dad always said the difference between poor & white trash is soap & education. These people choose to be trash.

thejnfr.bsky.social•44 days ago

A school that has 60% female students will be led by a guy who thinks women should go back to birthing babies and nothing more. I wonder how far enrollment will drop.

Does anyone know how enrollment at New College is doing now that they've gutted it?

michelebella.bsky.social•44 days ago

In 2023, 27% of students left New College of Florida by the start of the 2023-24 academic year. This was double the percentage who left over the previous two years. The school's retention rate for first-year students was the lowest in its history.

thejnfr.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thank you!

mpalmieri.bsky.social•31 days ago

They gave student-athletes free rides to a school (NCF) they really knew nothing about (no grades, senior thesis required, lots of independent work) just so they could play ball (see: 70+ baseball players in a 700 student school), so admin could claim strong 'enrollment'

davidoniell.bsky.social•44 days ago

? anyone make a tracker/ even with a timeline of how long it took of the parallels to nazi Germany!?
how similar the events are?

jimkoppy.bsky.social•44 days ago

It is Floriduh, after all.

luvbirdbaby.bsky.social•44 days ago

What is a liberal school?

dbpublisher.bsky.social•44 days ago

One that has courses

idahohuckleberry.bsky.social•44 days ago

Moving out of their homes and interacting independently w/ a wide variety of kids coming from different races, religions, regions, orientations etc is what makes kids shift to become more liberal; not coursework.

Unless you only have universities for white straight evangelical men…

Oh

allcaps-22.bsky.social•44 days ago

One that has books.

plannerben.bsky.social•44 days ago

They didn't call my alma mater "The Kremlin on the Crum" for nothin'.

deruman.bsky.social•44 days ago

I have 20 professional employees reporting to me in my job in my F500 tech company. I don’t hire people from Florida. No critical thinking skills.

christineu.bsky.social•44 days ago

Some of us were smart enough to go to some of the greatest grad schools in the country (obviously outside of Florida) after graduating from Florida universities. I hope when we do this it counteracts the fact we were raised in Florida.

disorderlybrdrline.bsky.social•44 days ago

It's day 7 of the orange plague's rule.

IT'S ONLY DAY 7!!!!!

"Oh look. I disagree with those people. Let's get rid of them by force even though the Constitution says I can't"

nrvschultz.bsky.social•44 days ago

The American Taliban.💔

nissa1519.bsky.social•44 days ago

🤬😡😠

ethanfletcher.bsky.social•44 days ago

Hard to see a happy ending for public colleges and universities in red states. Many if not most will be steadily degraded as institutions of learning over the coming years and decades. The authoritarian right stands firmly opposed to the values of free and open inquiry - you do the math.

christineu.bsky.social•44 days ago

Don’t worry it’s all of our schools. They’ve been pushing vouchers to get kids out of our public K-12 schools too. We have a lot of “homeschoolers” taking a lot of money away from our public schools too.

house49.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ignoring climate change and the foundations of critical thinking can only help the Florida GOP.

tozarowicz.bsky.social•44 days ago

Stop
Hiring
Rich
People
To
Represent
You

*if you claim to not be rich

eggsistenti.bsky.social•44 days ago

Because the curiosity and systems thinking of an educated mind is the biggest threat to their power and agenda.

camofarc.bsky.social•44 days ago

Weep for our children.

ggl25.bsky.social•44 days ago

Florida gets worse dally

mysticlee123.bsky.social•44 days ago

Does he not realize yet that these are the same behaviors that lost him the 1st presidential primary?

aristofontes.bsky.social•44 days ago

This article seems to conflate "liberal-leaning" and "liberal arts," in a way that's both nonsensical and very helpful to DeSantis.

jackiegardina.bsky.social•44 days ago

📌

caryopter.bsky.social•44 days ago

In my small town, one often-reelected RW school board member admitted that he thought no liberal arts classes should be taught to high school students. He wanted all to be enrolled in training-type programs so he could hire kids at low pay and with low expectations.

Republicans haven't changed.

kimmer.bsky.social•44 days ago

Is he termed out? I sure hope so for Fla's sake. Hopefully they've had their fill of the GOP leading their state.

carolannette.bsky.social•44 days ago

Plus it’s a pot of money. It’s all about the grift. Look how Sasse and his cronies fleeced UF.

lljack.bsky.social•44 days ago

Nothing like getting the indoctrination started right away.🤬

jenebbeler.bsky.social•44 days ago

Kissel was a “witness” for the TX lege in their attempt to get rid of tenure in 2023. I wrote an opinion piece about his nutty and ignorant testimony. So he attacked me on X.

used2balawyer.bsky.social•44 days ago

Another fascist fool.

andybichara.bsky.social•44 days ago

People who challenge their own preconceptions of issues tend to not vote into power reactionaries. They seek to control people’s minds so they won’t challenge a hierarchy that doesn’t benefit them.

jbcreates.bsky.social•44 days ago

Where did your CIA covid post go? I went to interact with it and it disappeared

jeffjarvis.bsky.social•44 days ago

I wanted to make a different post contrasting examples of the headlines over the story and then I had other things to do. I'll do it now.

jeffjarvis.bsky.social•44 days ago

Here's what I wanted to say; a better post, I think.
https://bsky.app/profile/jeffjarvis.bsky.social/post/3lgnp2yzj7k2q

jbcreates.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thank you!

kwb1856.bsky.social•44 days ago

What do they mean liberal school?

sordf1sh.bsky.social•44 days ago

Good luck getting kids to pay $200k to join a paramilitary, relgion camp. Going to have to fund this disaster with state aid.

sueramey.bsky.social•44 days ago

And they wonder why companies want/have to hire through the H-1B visa program. Heaven forbid we'd support colleges that promote critical thinking. Actually, they purposely want the dumbing down of our citizens because the uneducated are more subservient to them.

nebrgirl.bsky.social•44 days ago

😔

laura1971.bsky.social•44 days ago

He’s trying it at the University of Florida too. A garbage pres (Ben Sasse) who thankfully has already left. The creation of the Hamilton Center (a right leaning program trying to disguise itself as acad freedom). It’s a mess. https://www.reddit.com/r/ufl/comments/1bnclmf/chronicle_u_of_florida_investigates_whether/?rdt=55549

truthfulsocial.bsky.social•44 days ago

DeSantis doesn't hate or like education, he wants to control the flow of information.

xandr-clark.bsky.social•44 days ago

The seas can't swallow that godforsaken state fast enough.

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