John Oliver: Florida New College, Right Wing Takes Over. Heartbreaking

[MerryBlooms]

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[mr715]

1. Very sad.

I moved to Florida to finish my Ph.D.

New College was a academic gem - a little bit of Brown University down in Florida. Educating artsy, creative, and integrative thinkers.

Turned into a tepid Liberty University without the law school.

[Easterncedar]

2. Brutal theft

The UCC founded the college. Handing it over to the state was maybe not a great idea.

Now that it's ruined, it will be broken up and the land sold for development.

[MerryBlooms]

3. Marine Biology program, wiped out over summer recess...

Major and others, disappeared, while home for the summer. All the effort, time, love, money... Evaporated! While home visiting family and friends, talking about how excited you are about your future, then come back to your beloved institution, and it's wiped out. 😭

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. The takeover was 2 years ago..right?

[Initech]

5. And it was all so they got some fucking air time on Fox News.

For those of you who still don't think that Fox News is the biggest threat the United States faces, look around! They are ordering their goons to completely destroy everything that actually makes America great, and then blame us for their cruelty. Fox News needs to go.

[scipan]

6. My ex husband graduated from there

I'm glad he isn't alive anymore to see it destroyed.

[Uncle Joe]

7. It's part of a decades long attempt by the GOP to dumb down the American People

via all manner of institutions.

They want the American People to be ignorant so as to make them easier to use and manipulate against any concept of a greater good, just divide and conquer.

Thanks for the thread MerryBlooms