DeSantis seeks viewpoint diversity on campuses

 Monica Showalter:

Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis is as impressive as they come, and his record to show for it continues.

According to an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times by Scott Gerber, he's now targeting the leftist university monolith. 

Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill to protect against indoctrination in the state's colleges and universities. The new law, which went into effect on July 1, requires Florida's public colleges and universities to conduct an annual survey measuring "intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity" on their campuses. The law's goal is to assess "the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented" and how free students, faculty, and staff feel "to express their beliefs and viewpoints."

The Florida law does not specify what will be done with the survey results, but Gov. DeSantis suggested that budget cuts could result if universities and colleges are found to be "indoctrinating" students. "It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you'd be exposed to a lot of different ideas," DeSantis said. "Unfortunately, now the norm is really these are more intellectually repressive environments."

It's the intolerable setup that forces taxpayers of all ideological persuasions to fund far-left universities, where only leftists can get hired, leaving a great void of "viewpoint diversity."  Kids today go to college never hearing a word of conservative thought, and to please their professors and get the As they want, they must mouth leftist tropes, because who'd want to take a chance otherwise?  Worse still, the lack of ideological diversity serves to drive the viewpoints farther and farther left, like a bus with no brakes, no checks and balances, no respectable opposition.  That explains the state we've gotten to, with university professors the craziest people on the left, having no exposure to any tempering ideas.  The only solution to this is to force at least the publicly funded universities to hire according to affirmative action criteria, which they have not been doing, to achieve diversity of ideas, given the abuses and discriminations taking place. 

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Pushing back against the evils of liberalism should be encouraged in this country.  For too long liberals have been getting away with indoctrination such as Critical Race Theory.