There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the Left when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis named Christopher Rufo to New College of Florida's board of trustees. Rufo was an extremist who made critical race theory sound like a bad thing and also opposed queer theory in schools. The idea they had was to turn New College into a serious bastion of learning — the Hillsdale of the South.
We reported a little bit ago that Rufo had announced an end to the college's gender studies program, which is just pseudoscience layered on top of Marxism. Now we're hearing that the school's only full-time gender studies professor has resigned.
Good news: “New College’s only full-time gender studies professor resigns amid program abolishment.” pic.twitter.com/0t2k1zMhpE
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 22, 2023
What a tragic loss.
We are restoring the classical liberal arts and activist disciplines that have no scholarly merit, such as gender studies, will be not be part of our programs. Conservatives have spent decades complaining about these pseudo-disciplines; we are finally taking action against them.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 22, 2023
Let's have a moment of silence . . . . 🥳🥳🥳🥳
— Faerie Sidhe (@JinxyMimz) August 22, 2023
Aren’t most gender studies departments based on pure ideology and pseudoscience? If that’s the case they have no place in a university
— Peter D (@EmeraldCityMD) August 22, 2023
Yes and yes.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 22, 2023
Night-night. pic.twitter.com/YwLS2Phe5H
— James V. Barcia (@jamesbarcia) August 22, 2023
— Captain James Heise (@OvertempMarine) August 22, 2023
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Need to abolish all those programs and a few more. Certainly you should not get a student loan to help pay for the tuition in a major that will never result in sufficient salary to pay it back.
— Pyrodoctor (@pyrodoctor) August 22, 2023
The first gender studies class I took, "Gender and Violence," the first thing the prof did was write "There has never been a female serial killer or spree shooter" on the board. The day before, Jennifer San Marco had killed six in the Goleta spree shooting. It was surreal.
— Wolf of the West (@gailbraithe) August 22, 2023
According to the school's website, "Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary academic program that draws on curricula across the campus (and beyond) to engage students with the complex focal problem of 'gender' … it also intersects with interdisciplinary fields including Cultural, Ethnic, and Africana Studies." "The mentorship I received in New College’s Gender Studies program helped propel me into a successful career in the realm of political organizing. Without the skills I learned in this program, I would be on a totally different (and less exciting!) trajectory," says one graduate.
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