The tiny state-run college endured a hostile takeover by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year.
When hundreds of books got hauled away in a dumpster from the library of the New College of Florida on Thursday, thewith a governing board dominated by appointees of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis once again found itself at the center of the state’s culture wars.
“These actions are nothing short of a cultural purge, reminiscent of some of history’s darkest times, where regimes sought to control thought by burning books and erasing knowledge,” Bacardi Jackson, executive director of the ACU of Florida, said in a statement. Natalia Benavides said those boxes got moved to the library parking lot near the dumpster, but fellow students and activists responding to her alert managed to save most of the Gender and Diversity Center’s books before they got thrown away.
Reid said she believes books were removed from the Gender and Diversity Center, a student-run office that was independent of the academic gender studies program, because it’s also being shuttered. She said the center’s sign was also taken down and that it had housed more than two boxes of books, many of which she suspects ended up in the trash.
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