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"Fusionism was a complete disaster. Conservatives tolerated this poison so long as they got a tax cut for corporations and the ultra-wealthy." I agree with this completely. Very smart comments. Thank you, John.

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Praetorian bloat, gender ideology, race essentialism, propagandic, jargon-filled research, and campus-wide intolerance of diverse thought—these are the products of the new academic state religion that combines Foucauldian postmodern relativism, Soviet sclerosis, and Maoist liberticide. As DEI commissars bake faddish progressive principles into the very policies of public and private education alike, universities are becoming little more than overpriced indoctrination echo chambers where equality-of-result takes precedence over merit. Orthodoxy is being created around scholarship, erasing the distinction between academic expertise and ideological conformity.

https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/universities-have-turned-into-illiberal

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Not a good development!

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"Officially, the university has reported to Governor Ron DeSantis that it hosts 31 DEI initiatives at a cost of $5 million per year. But these figures don’t capture the extent of the university’s rapidly growing DEI complex. In reality, DEI is not a series of standalone programs but an ideology that has been embedded in virtually every department on campus."

I assumed as much. Terminating the official DEI bureaucracy is the first step - it eliminates official "support." Given that this is an ideology - which means a substitute reality - the problem will be more intricate, as you report.

I very much look forward to your ongoing reports on how removing the top admin. layers and budgets affects the overall reality at other levels. Based on reports of public-school Board and teacher behavior, we might expect non-compliance with your Board and President, as well as a sort of inertia, given that this is now established. But, I would like to hear how that looks, after the obvious first actions are taken.

This is an opportunity to gain real insight into the phenomenon, everywhere - especially if a timeline is established (as you have started to put together).

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We're going to be making progress on this in the coming months. I've set the stage with these investigative reports, now legislators are preparing action.

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You and the Governor both appear to be methodical in your thinking and planning re: real-world actions/consequences - including an insistence on seeing actual reality, as it is. It is for this that I believe that you can succeed.

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This is truly horrifying.

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Agreed.

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Well that isn't entirely insane and hysterical, is it. And this is being done in a majority Republican state. Imagine what's being done in universities in blue states.

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Similar things are being done in K-12 in blue states.

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And Red States ~ it's everywhere in varying degrees.

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"Imagine what is being done in universities in blue states."

Imagine? No. I'm already shook.

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Sounds like a situation well-suited to a challenge by Florida's governor. I can hope.

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We're working on it!

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I was hoping so. Thanks, Chris.

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This ideology is spreading like a cancer. The Education System now is breeding new leaders of this infection into our Government and Military. We need to know who is pushing this information and the source of funding. We already know that the White House encourages and makes funding available .

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"three-year plan included the creation of an institutional equity and inclusion blueprint, the expansion of a university-wide DEI infrastructure, and the deployment of DEI cadres to each division, school, and college tasked with conducting loyalty surveys"

The Left has come full circle, once again promoting 5 year plans for social reform overseen by political commissars.

"explicit race-based recruiting of individuals from historically underrepresented groups, and measuring current workforce demographics against targets and benchmarks."

This will only end when enough bridges fall down and planes crash because they were designed by people chosen for their racial qualifications instead of their competence. There appears to be a large market for racial & sexual grievance among of American self-flagellants.

"Counseling & Wellness Center continues to use psychotherapy as a vehicle for ideology."

Phillip Reiff saw it coming: The Triumph of the Therapeutic.

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That's exactly right. Rieff saw it in its infancy. Now it's grown.

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Truly and completely sickening.....why would ANY one pay tuition or attend this so called university.....

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Well... if you're a taxpayer, you're being forced to pay for this no matter what. And it's clear that if it's this entrenched in Florida (and we know it's just as bad at University of Texas), it's safe to assume that every taxpayer in America is subsidizing this fifth column in Academia. Chris is doing God's work by exposing this hateful, retrograde cult for all reasonable people to see.

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If all the CSJ loyalists at the university were fired, I wonder if enough high caliber academics still exist who would want the vacant positions. Many of them talk a good game in opposition to the CSJ regime until somebody starts to take action against them. Then they start screaming about academic freedom as if they had it and it was being ripped from their hands.

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If we wipe out the administrative positions and just let professors teach, it would go a long way toward solving the problem.

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That is an excellent point! It would certainly enable us to sort out the profs who want to teach from the ones who just want to indoctrinate.

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They typically define themselves as “liberals.” When I was a student, liberals were people who believed reformers could work within the system, and radicals were people who believed the system was corrupt to the root. Looks like the liberals never stop trying to work within the system, even after it no longer exists. Totally validates the radical perspective!

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"Looks like the liberals never stop trying to work within the system, even after it no longer exists."

LOL, Sandra.

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Christopher thanks for the in-depth information.

I have a question: When will the State Legislature in Florida have laws in place that will allow you and others to go into these Florida Universities and openly expose and dismantle these DEI bureaucracies like you did at New College Of Florida?

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Yes, we're working on this as we speak.

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Rather than attempt a "rescue", what about "Education Separation"? Not of the races...of the ideologies. Public School Opt Out and Take the Money With You.

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We're doing that in many states for K-12. Universities are different, same principle doesn't necessarily apply.

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I get that. How about removing the requirement for an Ed degree to teach? I presume you have one in Florida as we do here in California. That's where the capture starts. Every K-12 teacher has been thouroghly indoctrinated before they take a job "training" children.

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Yes, I agree with that policy 100 percent.

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This will ensure one thing regarding the university of Florida: its graduates will be considered stupid until proven otherwise.

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Chris,

Thank you for exposing the universities for having these indoctrinating, divisive policies/ideology. When will the anti DEI programs at Florida public universities be banned? My son is scheduled to attend UF this fall and I fear they may have some sort of negative influence on him as much as we have educated him on the ills of such programs/ideology. He just wants to learn finance without being exposed to this DEI nonsense.

Thank you

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Keep up the incredible work, Christopher. You're taking the absolutely correct approach. While private schools can go ahead and burn themselves to the ground with a full embrace of this horrendous and hateful ideology, we aren't forced to pay for those. But taxpayer funded institutions MUST be subjected to as much pressure by the work you're doing as possible. It's totally unacceptable for all of us to be forced to fund enterprises openly conspiring to destroy our society. A full frontal assault on these discriminatory practices is in order. You want to hire and fire on the basis of race and gender? Um.. that's criminal, technically. So you're fired.

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Mr. Rufo . I admire and respect the knowledge and research you have done to educate us . I am going to Churches in California to discuss education and the Sexual Perversion being pushed on our Children. I am not funded and using my own money to build a resource database for Parents and anyone concerned. I need to know how do I get permission to share your information and media content. This is not for anyone to make money or get Rich . The goal is to educate and inform

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