Exactly. I live in the town that hosts the University of Florida. Despite Governor DeSantis best efforts of closing the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices, and all his other wasted efforts in his “war on wokism” the people that I know that work there haven’t changed their opinions, scientific and otherwise on topics that trigger the Governor.
I don’t think that it is clear that his efforts have been wasted. I don’t think that DeSantis was ever expecting this to have an immediate effect on people’s opinions. Instead, I think the idea is to prevent people in these positions from dragging the institution further toward a particular direction over time.
(To be clear, this isn’t a comment on whether these are or aren’t good policies, just on whether it constitutes progress toward DeSantis’ goals)
Exactly. I live in the town that hosts the University of Florida. Despite Governor DeSantis best efforts of closing the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices, and all his other wasted efforts in his “war on wokism” the people that I know that work there haven’t changed their opinions, scientific and otherwise on topics that trigger the Governor.
I don’t think that it is clear that his efforts have been wasted. I don’t think that DeSantis was ever expecting this to have an immediate effect on people’s opinions. Instead, I think the idea is to prevent people in these positions from dragging the institution further toward a particular direction over time.
(To be clear, this isn’t a comment on whether these are or aren’t good policies, just on whether it constitutes progress toward DeSantis’ goals)