What excellent news from Florida, where ‘a planned Tampa event that was being hailed as “one of the region’s largest pride celebrations” was canceled Thursday by its organizers in response to a new law that forbids exposing children to adult and sexually inappropriate displays…
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Before any pinko reader ( do we still have any?) gets his or her knickers in a twist about this, let’s just remind everyone that many deviants cannot keep themselves to themselves on these occasions….
I see the Guardian has finally scrapped that old-fashioned distinction between news and opinion.
That’s the only possible conclusion one can draw from a diatribe (aka ‘report’) by a hack called Joseph Contreras…
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…on Governor DeSantis’ efforts to clean up far-left-infested educational institutions.
Contreras’ notion of impartial reporting?
Get this …
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…on the Governor’s “one fell swoop that was breathtaking in its scope, dog-whistle racism and naked ambition,”
Actually, DeSantis has done excellent work, eg
“... the abolition of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs…”
He’s also out to get – or rather get rid of – the ridiculous tenure system, which has so often prevented dud profs getting well-deserved dismissal.
“They can be let go if they’re not performing to expectations,” observed DeSantis, adding that “the most significant dead-weight cost to a university is unproductive tenured faculty”.
The best part, which inexplicably seems to make Contreras seethe, is how a ghastly outpost of leftery, the New College of Florida, is a target for cleansing.
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So here’s more of the warlike rhetoric which Comrade Contreras deems suitable for his report.
“DeSantis’s opening salvo against NCF was fired on 6 January when his office announced the appointment of six rightwing allies of the governor to the college’s 13-member board of trustees.”
Wow.
How dare he exercise his right, as all governors of all parties would have the right, to choose people he thought would usefully contribute…
…and boy-oh-boy, they wasted no time in getting to work.
The bonfire of the universities that the governor ignited during the morning press conference yesterday then engulfed the NCF seaside campus within a matter of hours….
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Ron DeSantis
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“During its first in-person meeting of 2023 on Tuesday afternoon, the freshly reconstituted board voted to fire the president of NCF, Patricia Okker, without cause and replace its general counsel, who had vetoed a request by one of the DeSantis-appointed trustees to open a pair of open meetings on campus last week with prayer.
Well, of course a prayer would get a veto, in a wokoid swamp, but…
‘Without cause?’
They just woke up that day feeling grouchy, so took it out on Okker?
I find that hard to believe.
And a quick scan of other media indicates why most sensible people, e.g. tax-payers, might think new leadership might benefit the college.
‘Before the meeting, dozens of students held a rally outside to oppose major changes to the school and its mission, which is known for its open approach to coursework without specific grades, and being a safe place for many LGBTQ students who feel marginalized in other schools.’
So these ‘dozens,’ and presumably many more like them, have congregated at NCF because it’s a congenial scene for sexual maladjusts, who don’t like the idea that whatever academic work they find time to do is graded as it would be in less lush pastures?
…Polly Toynbee, shrilling about Britain’s similar problems.
‘We need a written constitution, we need somebody to be in charge.’
But unusually, not much Trumpophobia from her today, though the Dateline fanatics have never yet had a Trump defender since they issued their Big Lie..
I have not always agreed with things Sebastian Coe has had to say, but when he states a simple scientific truth, as in my headline, it’s impossible to disagree.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a proclamation recognising runner-up Emma Weyant as the winner of the highest US national college swimming title https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/60842863
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