Leftists Sue New College Of Florida Reformers For Not Letting Them Indoctrinate Students On Taxpayers’ DimeBY: SHAWN FLEETWOOD
AUGUST 17, 2023
A group of students and professors at New College of Florida are suing the university’s trustees, interim president, and Florida education officials to stop the implementation of a new law prohibiting colleges from incorporating Marxist ideology into classroom curriculum.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Monday, the lawsuit brought by NCF Freedom Inc. and New College students and professors claims that SB 266 — which was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May — violates the First Amendment “because it favors and permits speech which opposes ideas such as diversity, equity and inclusion and social activism, etc. but disfavors and censors speech which promotes those ideas.”
Under SB 266, Florida universities are prohibited from teaching curriculum that “is based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities.” The law furthermore bars state colleges from using federal or state taxpayer money to fund so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, programs.
For context, DEI is a divisive and poisonous ideology that dismisses merit and instead discriminates based on characteristics such as skin color and sexual orientation. Individuals who qualify for a certain position due to their merits but don’t meet the discriminating entity’s goal of being more “diverse” are passed over in favor of those who meet institutionally preferred identitarian standards.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/17/leftists-sue-new-college-of-florida-reformers-for-not-letting-them-indoctrinate-students-on-taxpayers-dime/
