In the Cynical Name of \u0022Freedom,\u0022 DeSantis Puts Academia Under Attack

A specialty of the so-called"champions of freedom" is to prohibit everything that does not suit their interests.In 2021, Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, in agreement with Brazil’s neo-fascist President Jair Bolsonaro, signed a law allowing college students to record professors to detect any ideological bias.

According to conservative fanatics, universities are strongholds for liberals where youth are indoctrinated. They complain that most of the professors are “leftists” and that, therefore, legislation must be approved to balance the proportion of conservatives. There is no such proposal to balance the ideologies in the most powerful churches, in the multi-million-dollar corporations, in the stock markets, in the powerful lobbies of Washington or in the unlimited donations to the political parties.

In theory, fascism and liberalism are opposites. However, decades ago neoliberalism managed to put a diverse menu in the same electoral combo. Thus, in the same party, the most radical capitalists and warmongers went together with the Christians who had nothing to do with the Jesus of the Gospels, but rather with Judas, someone who could sell his friend for thirty silver coins.

While some academics are too preoccupied with a model to explain inflation in the Maldives or how to quote Socrates in a magazine no one will read, the Big Businessmen continue with their plans to neutralize or take over one of the last corners of society they still cannot fully control, despite the commodification of education. I’ve heard that “Well, that’s the professor’s job.” That is, they should not deal with big politics..

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