Hidden in the latest agenda for the board of trustees for New College in Florida–a once-innovative higher education institute that Republican Florida Governor and anti-tolerance activist Ron DeSantis is destroying by installing radical right-wing xenophobes to run–is a $2 million request for the “New College Freedom Institute,” an indoctrination effort to normalize hate speech and bigotry under the guise of “free speech.”
DeSantis’s proposal would hire “prominent figures in the free speech movement who have access to major media and are proven capable of delivering the Freedom Institute’s message” to groom audiences, both on campus and independent of the school, to accept the radical intolerance promoted by DeSantis and Republicans.