As Twitchy reported, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently made progressives’ heads explode when he named anti-critical race theory warrior and “extremist anti-trans propagandist” Christopher Rufo to the board of trustees of the New College of Florida. The Sun-Sentinel decried DeSantis’ brazen, arrogant, hostile takeover of New College as part of his war on “woke” education. DeSantis’ goal is to make the college’s mission one of instruction rather than indoctrination.
Rufo, as usual, brings the receipts in his look at Florida State University’s radical diversity, equity, and inclusion program. On January 31, DeSantis announced that Florida would be eliminating all funding for DEI bureaucracies on state colleges and universities. So hopefully we’ll be getting less of this:
SCOOP: Florida State University has adopted a radical DEI program that divides Americans along a "matrix of oppression," castigates Christians for their "Christian privilege," and offers racially segregated scholarships that deliberately bar white students from applying.
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— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
Officially, Florida State administrators have claimed in a recent report to Governor Ron DeSantis that they support 23 separate DEI initiatives. But I have obtained documents through public records and FOIA requests showing that the ideology has embedded itself everywhere. pic.twitter.com/lr5I8EmSFv
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
One representative program is FSU’s "Social Justice Ally Training," which recapitulates the critical-race-theory narrative: American oppressors have created a society of "racism, classism, religious oppression, sexism, heterosexism, gender oppression, ableism, [and] xenophobia." pic.twitter.com/x6xeCM45ox
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
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The training claims that "whites" are the racial group at the top of the "matrix of oppression," guilty of the "systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little power." By definition, no other group can be racist—the problem is "Whiteness." pic.twitter.com/BhLab4EfUd
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
Christians, too, represent an oppressor class, which has created "Christian hegemony" and "normalize[d] Christian values as intrinsic to an explicitly American identity." They are guilty of "religious oppression” and "close-minded hatred, fear, or prejudice towards Islam." pic.twitter.com/gZzo6kGuwA
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
The solution for oppressor groups is to seek redemption through social-justice ideology and "identity development." They begin as "selfish" and hoping to "maintain the status quo," but can work to "consciously [use] unearned privilege against self" and "destroy the system." pic.twitter.com/cvUx9IZWVS
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
This ideology is everywhere at FSU. The business school pledged to create an award for "DEI heroes." The classics department released a statement to support BLM. The art history department adopted a "land acknowledgement" that portrays Europeans as illegitimate occupiers. pic.twitter.com/6OowTbdpSH
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
The sociology department has created an entire course, "Critical Race Theory," that presents left-wing racialism as the gospel truth and assigns readings that traffic in overt racial hostility, such as "Whiteness as Pathological Narcissism," with no competing opinions anywhere. pic.twitter.com/meb1pvaBI8
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
We were assured that critical race theory was taught only in law schools.
Many academic departments have created an ideological hiring filter, requiring that potential faculty hires and graduate students submit "diversity statements"—best understood as a loyalty oath to left-wing racialism—as part of the application process. pic.twitter.com/PR292Q4pG1
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
FSU even administers scholarships that explicitly exclude white students. The Delores Auzenne Assistantship, for example, is designated solely for "African-American, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and Native-American" grad students—no European-Americans need apply. pic.twitter.com/dhoIuiYQDH
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
FSU also sponsors "Pride Month" programming, including events promoting "drag condom bingo," "queer sex ed," "trans 101," "intersectionality," and "masturbation" lessons. pic.twitter.com/wFljFIHY82
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
The goal of DEI ideology is to move everyone in the university’s orbit toward partisan political activism. The trainings make it clear, encouraging participants to engage in "structural change activism" and "petition drives, picketing, performance art, teach-ins, vigils," etc. pic.twitter.com/zbNWLiXPH1
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 2, 2023
As shown above, part of the DEI training is to create a “commitment statement” listing three different action steps you’ll take in your home, school, work, or community as a “social justice ally.”
These pieces of training are all the same and have worked their way down from the university level into high schools and even middle schools, where children fill out their own privilege statements to determine where they land on the oppression matrix. And those at the top — straight white Christian males — are then to commit to disrupting the system. It’s just Marxism applied to race and gender.
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Ron DeSantis is ready to yank funding for DEI bureaucracies at Fla. public colleges and universities https://t.co/0jaQCO6zBW
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 31, 2023
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