{"id":988335,"date":"2023-02-10T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=273716"},"modified":"2023-02-10T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T07:03:27","slug":"white-supremacy-2-0-desantiss-big-brother-assault-on-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/10\/white-supremacy-2-0-desantiss-big-brother-assault-on-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"White Supremacy 2.0: DeSantis\u2019s Big Brother Assault on Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

The white supremacy of 2023 looks very different than it did prior to the civil rights era. As a nation, we\u2019ve traded Klan robes and open celebrations of segregation for more subtle, and as a result more insidious efforts to erase discussions of racism from public memory. Such is the case with the recent efforts in Florida to dismantle any lingering educational commitment to the studying racial inequality. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he wants a \u201ccore curriculum\u201d for the state\u2019s public universities. He is calling for changes that \u201cwould mandate courses in Western civilization, eliminate diversity programs and reduce the protections of tenure.\u201d DeSantis is demanding reforms in order to challenge \u201cwoke ideology,\u201d \u201cfrom gender-neutral bathrooms to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) departments in schools,\u201d while focusing his ire on universities. These efforts, he claims, will disrupt \u201cideological conformity\u201d in the academy. It doesn\u2019t take much imagination to figure out that he\u2019s talking about dismantling the parts of the college experience that are grounded in liberal or progressive values, and imposing rightwing values in their place, as mandated by the state. In one recent example, DeSantis reportedly targeted New College of Florida, admonishing the school for teaching critical race theory (CRT) and \u201cgender theories.\u201d More<\/a><\/p>\n

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The white supremacy of 2023 looks very different than it did prior to the civil rights era. As a nation, we\u2019ve traded Klan robes and open celebrations of segregation for more subtle, and as a result more insidious efforts to erase discussions of racism…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}