College DEI departments got a bad shock when Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced that he was pulling their state funding. Rich questions Charlie about the move, pointing out that colleges are accusing the governor of politicizing the issue.
Charlie finds the notion “hilarious” and reminds listeners that “higher education is already by design extremely politicized — deliberately politicized. From the 1970s onwards, the Left slowly took over higher education, having said explicitly that it intended to take over higher education and having explained why. And now, when pushing back against DeSantis’s ideas, the people who did that are pretending it never happened.”
He also reminds us what DEI actually is: “an extremely pernicious ideology that destroys everything it touches.”
Returning guest Dominic Pino joins in, drawing a comparison between attacks on DeSantis’s current actions and those on former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s collective-bargaining reforms in 2011. These involved public employees such as school teachers. “What did the Left say? The Left said ‘The world is going to end if we get rid of these special privileges for educators, and education quality is going to collapse. . . . No one’s going to want to be a teacher anymore. . . .’ That was twelve years ago now.”
When it comes to the outcry over DeSantis’s move in Florida, Dominic says “the things that are going to be different are it’s going to have less ideological indoctrination, which is a good thing.”
Does MBD agree? And do our editors have anything to say about the giant spy balloon hanging out over Montana? Listen below to find out.