Florida is too humid for my taste. And I don’t care for heat. Nor bugs. Nor snakes. Nor large man-eating reptiles.

So every time a friend of mine suggests a move to Florida I demur. But I have to admit that it gets more tempting every day, thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis.

Or is it DeSanctimonious? Who knows, and who cares? I would be happy with him if he were Governor Meatball Ron, as Trump has tried to label him.

DeSantis is good on so many issues, but his attacks on DEI in the state universities really stand out to me for a number of reasons. Most of them are good reasons, but I admit to enjoying the lamentations of my enemies as an added bonus.

If DeSantis gets his way—and he likely will—diversity, equity and inclusion efforts will be eliminated from every public college and university in Florida. https://t.co/JEvIHzhANa

— VICE News (@VICENews) March 1, 2023

Vice’s article on DeSantis’ efforts to root out racism and segregation in higher ed is like a Rorschach test. I was genuinely surprised for a second when I started reading the article because for some reason they seem to think that DeSantis is doing a bad thing rooting out the evils of racism and segregation.

Nothing could be better in my own mind.

DEI is one of the most destructive forces in American society today, up there with gender ideology, ESG, pineapple on pizza, bicyclists, and vegans.

I should have clued into their Leftism by their use of the word “cronies,” but I was distracted by the good news that DeSantis forced a college to close its Diversity Office. That caught my eye like Phoebe Cates emerging from the pool in Fast Times at Ridgemont High did when I was a teenager.

Good times.

“If Ron DeSantis has his way, what his board did at New College will happen at every public university in Florida” they whine.

Well, let’s hope that’s just a start.

Sounds like a good plan for every university that receives government funds in the United States as well. And those few who don’t? I am pretty sure Hillsdale doesn’t have a super-active DEI bureaucracy.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handpicked board of trustees voted to shutter New College’s diversity, equity, and inclusion office on Tuesday, the latest step in its hostile takeover of the school and a harbinger of what Florida’s entire university system could look like in a few months.

The board, which has a majority of DeSantis appointees, voted 9 to 3 to abolish the school’s Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence.

This sounds like a little slice of heaven to me, and I assure you that if this comes to pass no public college or university will have any trouble recruiting either students or professors to fill their openings.

By the way–those 3 board members who voted “no” have to go, Meatball Ron. I like my meatballs spicy!

DeSantis has sought to make an example of New College, a tiny liberal arts school with a mostly progressive student body that has a large LBGTQ community. Earlier this year he replaced most of the college’s board of trustees with right-wing loyalists who quickly moved to fire the college’s president, replace her with an ally, and push the liberal-leaning school hard to the right.

If DeSantis gets his way—and he likely will—diversity, equity and inclusion efforts will be eliminated from every public college and university in Florida. DeSantis is backing a bill that would cut funding from all of Florida’s DEI programs, as well as ban the teaching of critical race theory at the state’s public colleges and universities.

It almost makes me want to return to academia. Almost.

I think most people underestimate how important it is to push back against the Left at the college and university level, although it is very late in the game. Those blue-haired crazies who have invaded our classrooms in K-12 got their ideas from their time in higher ed, and all those MSM Lefties were indoctrinated in those critical years.

If the body politic is sick, the cancer is higher ed.

There is a reason why people are flocking to Florida, and I refuse to believe it is a sudden desire to wrestle with alligators or crocodiles or whatever those large reptiles are.

It’s because Florida is where woke goes to die. That is a little slice of paradise to me.