The fascists who took over Florida's once-progressive New College at the behest of Ron DeSantis have been caught dumping vast numbers of books.

#Fascism #GOPExtremism #Florida #NewCollege

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/

New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library

A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books from the Gender and Diversity Center.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

@alexwild

These are two of the images posted on X.

@futurebird @alexwild Intermediate Hebrew? Did they just see foreign writing and panic?

@blairbarley @futurebird @alexwild There is a conflation here between normal turnover of the library's collection, which would be thousands of volumes per year across the entire inventory, and the complete emptying & dumping of the parts of the library the omnibigoted authoritarians responsible object to.

Pretending that the former is the same as the latter is convenient for the authoritarians concerned.