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.
People will go where they’re wanted/needed. Academics and doctors should ABSOLUTELY bail when the system they work under fails them so miserably.
The rest will follow suit and all that remains will be what all the conservatives deserve: nothing.
And for the record- they’re not “trying” fascism, they’re DOING fascism.
I agree with most of what you said. One issue, and it’s a big issue, there’s one other group that won’t leave: the vulnerable. People who are too poor or don’t have support to leave will be left behind. It is their vulnerability preventing them from leaving that will likely be their vulnerability staying. The bad things happen gradually and you adjust for them a little bit each time, until you can’t adjust anymore and you’re stuck.
That said, I can’t blame anyone for leaving/wanting to leave.
That would almost be OK, except because of the way the U.S. Senate works, this makes fascism at the federal level 2 steps behind the reddest states.
No it’s not just the senate. If people keep running away to a handful of “nice” states and give up on the others, then bye bye House. Bye bye Executive branch. Bye bye Judicial branch.
And then you’ll get the same dumbasses wondering why their nice place isn’t so nice anymore.
I feel like it’s only people who don’t actually live in these places or, if they do, aren’t the current targets of christian fascist terrorism (yet) who actually say insensitive, tone deaf, privileged shit like this.
When your actual safety is under threat because of the majority ideology where you live, you gtfo. If you look at history (which is all real stuff that actually happened…) the academics were always right after the LGBTQ community. Then writers and artists and musicians. Look at Germany and the multiple South American countries the US helped to destroy.
Florida is not Nazi Germany. It is if you consume all your news from lemmy headlines, but in real life it is not. It and the rest of America can be if people keep moving away - like I said in my original comment.
They didn’t say it was, they were using what’s called a metaphor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
Not everyone can participate in active resistance.
It’s pretty funny how in one sentence you say it’s a metaphor and in the VERY NEXT ONE you’re talking about “active resistance”. Are you serious? Am I being punked?
And I’m not talking about any sort of active resistance. Literally passive resistance, voting, ANYTHING other than running into a henhouse would be better.
The “active resistance” bit was also a metaphor. Living one’s life surrounded by people who hate core parts of your identity isn’t great for maintaining good mental health.
…or you’re being punked, take your pick.
No, it’s Weimar Germany, when the course of that trajectory was still building but the opportunities for changing course were narrowing rapidly despite many peoples’ best efforts. And in Florida, as they already have a fascist state government, it very soon won’t even be Weimar Germany anymore. It WILL be “Nazi Germany.”
You thought by sating “Nazi Germany” you were picking a laughably ridiculous extreme, without having any idea that everyone else is way ahead of you and “Nazi” is no longer extreme, it’s looming reality. Get your history straight, and do better at picking metaphors that don’t make other peoples’ points for them.
Can you people actually read what I wrote rather than look at my score and try to get a gotcha in? Holy shit, like I addressed this in 3rd sentence in the comment you’re replying to. Let me bold it with [context added] in case you don’t get it
It and the rest of America can be [like Nazi Germany] if people keep moving away
I’ve already read far too much of what you wrote. Let me bold MY point for you:
America – all of it – CAN be [Nazi Germany or whatever fascist hellhole you want to use as an example] with NOBODY MOVING ANYWHERE AT ALL . . . and that is exactly the direction we are going in right now.
As of two years ago, my vote does not matter because the Rs decided that the R that won my district by a slender margin (BECAUSE we Ds were out voting) did not win by a wide enough margin, so they shifted the purple parts of that congressional district to a solidly D district two years ago.
I can vote D all day long, and it will never change that now R-forever city.
It’s ALREADY done in my district. I ALREADY do not have representation. It DOES NOT MATTER IF I MOVE.
You’re all butthurt because you think you’ve been the target of comment “gotcha” but I can assure you it’s nothing like the “gotcha” I got two years ago from my red state representatives who want my vote with all the passion they want a case of crotch rot.
The only question left here, then, is whether YOU can read what I wrote. I genuinely don’t think so.
…what. I genuinely don’t know how we got into a discussion about gerrymandering from the original topic. If you want to yell at someone for that, I think you replied to the wrong person - I don’t really care. Gerrymandering can be overcome with higher voter turnout - something I’ve been trying to tell the people here to do.
Outside of that, I don’t really know what point you’re trying to make so … good luck with w/e you’re dealing with.