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A wave of tenured professors leaving their highly coveted positions say the DeSantis administration is the reason they're leaving Florida (www.businessinsider.com)

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Professors from across the country have long been lured to Florida's public colleges and universities, with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.

But for a swath of liberal-leaning professors, many of them holding highly coveted tenured positions, they've felt increasingly out of place in the Sunshine State. And some of them are pointing to the conservative administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the reason for their departures, according to The New York Times.

DeSantis, who was elected to the governorship in 2018 and was easily reelected last fall, has over the course of his tenure worked to put a conservative imprint on a state where moderation was once a driving force in state politics. In recent years, DeSantis has railed against the current process by which tenure is awarded, and with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he's imposed conservative education reforms across the state.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

The article keeps saying "conservative" when the correct descriptors would be "fascist", "bigoted" and "anti-education".

the ~~conservative~~ fascist administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

worked to put a[n] ~~conservative~~ anti-education imprint on [the] state

with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he's imposed ~~conservative~~ bigoted education reforms across the state.

[-] Curiousfur@yiffit.net 12 points 11 months ago

The conservative platform is all of those things, so it's completely fair to call it that. The entire party is rotten to the core because they are simply ok with being the party of all of those things.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I think it is also fair to call them regressives since they are more interested in returning us to an earlier configuration of society than simply maintaining the status quo.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

I'm not defending "normal conservatives" and other delusional participants in hate from being associated with this kind of barbarism. My gripe is with threefold:

1: Don't just repeat the same word when synonyms and even better suited words exist. It's lazy writing and annoying to read

2: More importantly, the rise of fascism and related far right demagoguery is a worldwide emergency, not least an American one.

When venerated right wing and/or centrist outlets such as Business Insider, CNN and New York Times keep calling fascism conservatism, they not only ignore the crisis and thus the need to adress it, they severely hinder anyone calling it out from being taken seriously, much less doinh anything to fight it.

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