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Chuck Darwin<p>Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right </p><p>New College of Florida (NCF) will ⚠️host the extremist writer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sailer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sailer</span></a>, <br>who has been described as a <br>💥“white supremacist” and a <br>💥“proponent of scientific racism”, <br>at a college-branded public eventnext month.</p><p>New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor, <br>❌Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution, <br>and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christopher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rufo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rufo</span></a>. </p><p>That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Corcoran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corcoran</span></a> as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.</p><p>DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College <br>– like ♦️abolishing disciplines, <br>♦️removing bathroom signage <br>and ♦️denying professors tenure <br>– have seen ➡️ the departure of more than a third of the faculty, <br>and given rise to myriad legal actions.</p><p>But the moves have been lauded by the so-called “new right”, <br>many of whom see US higher education as a bastion of liberalism that needs to be subject to a rightwing “<a href="https://c.im/tags/reconquista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reconquista</span></a>”. </p><p>JD <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a>, for his part, has pledged to. 🆘 “<a href="https://c.im/tags/aggressively" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aggressively</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/attack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>attack</span></a> the universities in this country”.</p><p>Even so, Sailer’s invitation to speak is likely to stir controversy for his extremist views, especially on race.</p><p>In Sailer’s newly published anthology, Noticing, one essay claims that <br>an “African population explosion” is related to <br>a “primal African cult of fertility”. </p><p>Another associates “young woman-of-color journalists” <br>with “Haitian <a href="https://c.im/tags/voodoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voodoo</span></a> and Southern <a href="https://c.im/tags/hoodoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hoodoo</span></a> magic”. </p><p>🔥Many offer variations on the claim that “Blacks have higher average levels of violent crime and lower average levels of intelligence”.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/28/new-college-of-florida-hosting-extremist-writer-steve-sailer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s</span><span class="invisible">ep/28/new-college-of-florida-hosting-extremist-writer-steve-sailer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>