Summary

New College of Florida has reinstated a controversial course on “wokeness,” led by British media personality Andrew Doyle, amid criticism over its one-sided portrayal of “wokeness” as a cult.

The course’s reading list includes Doyle’s own books and works by rightwing figures like Christopher Rufo, who has claimed that antiracist government policies would bring about “an end to the constitutional order.”

The college, under Governor Ron DeSantis’s influence, is undergoing a conservative transformation that has sparked backlash from students and staff, who report discomfort with the new administration’s ideological agenda.

The course’s reinstatement reflects the college’s shift toward rightwing educational reforms.

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    led by British media personality Andrew Doyle

    The course’s reading list includes Doyle’s own books

    So this is just state-sanctioned propaganda from some random guy

    Maybe they should pay the crazy dude in the street corner who’s shouting about the end of the world to give a course as well

    I wonder if Doyle is even going to give an actual definition of the term ‘woke’

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      So he’s basically a real-life Gilderoy Lockheart, teaching Defense Against the Woke Arts.