The right-wing takeover of Florida’s public honors college blurs the line between tragedy and farce, but attacks on universities are about t
Not my usual fare on this site, I tend to keep posts like this to bsky and fb overall, but importantly I am a New College of Florida alumna so this matters to me personally, and should matter you YOU politically.
This is a long-form investigative piece by Kathryn Joyce, the author of the book Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement which is an outstanding read itself.
In this piece she digs into why what happened to my teeny tiny alma mater should matter to ALL of us. This isn't just a special interest piece about a whole-ass college of 700 students (my entire graduating class was less than 100 people), it highlights how this fits into the right-wing fascist agenda. It's a test case scenario, y'all, and it's awful.
Please read the whole thing, it is important.
"While the Right doesn’t admit it, the vision of higher ed they’re advancing is one where the lucky few have access to a rich liberal arts education, others get a “classical” right-wing imitation and the majority receive utilitarian instruction designed to fill holes in the labor market."
