After inviting me, New College of Florida is smote by "Old Testament-level wrath"

But, to the annoyance of a "Florida Phoenix" columnist, the Sarasota college has survived Hurricane Milton.

From the Florida Phoenix:

Invitation to ‘eugenicon’ shows how far off the track New College has wandered

Welcoming white supremacists to campus is not good

Diane Roberts

October 14, 2024 7:00 am

Perhaps you’re wondering what’s been going on at New College of Florida. The venal idiots Ron DeSantis put in charge of that once-renowned institution have:

Run off nearly 40% of the faculty;

Thrown books on history, gender, and Judaism in the dumpster;

Fired the librarian;

Admitted a bunch of low-scoring jocks;

Mowed down and dug up a beloved nature preserve — the jocks needed somewhere to play ball — and;

Under the Visigoth-style “leadership” of Richard Corcoran, generally have done their damnedest to turn the clock back to 1950.

Probably you won’t be surprised to hear what’s going on is not good — as in welcoming white supremacists to campus not good.

Steve Sailer, a “eugenicon” who believes Black people are genetically inferior to whites, race is biological, interracial marriage is wrong, and “core Americans” are by definition white, has been invited to speak at one of the college’s “Socratic Stage Dialogues.”

Socrates himself would not know whether to laugh, cry, or take an even bigger swig of hemlock.

Sailer claims “young woman-of-color journalists” are obsessed with hair and thus tangled up (somehow) in “Haitian voodoo and Southern hoodoo magic.”

(No, I don’t understand it either.)

According to Sailer, Black men are in thrall to a “primal African cult of fertility,” and all Black folks, being not terribly bright, “possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus, they need stricter moral guidance from society.”

White people, being better at stuff like morality, book-learning, and hair, must help these poor benighted African Americans.

This kind of talk puts him on the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe: Even the dinosaurs at The National Review, not exactly friends of racial equality, declared such statements beyond the pale.

The New College event was scheduled for Oct. 8 but, given the Old Testament-level wrath of Hurricane Milton, it’s been postponed — possibly the only positive effect of this terrible storm….

While I’d love to think there are a couple of sane people left at New College who might decide to cancel the whole thing and save themselves embarrassment, that’s wishful thinking. Florida’s honors college has been remade according to Rufo’s white supremacist, anti-diversity, hate-driven vision for higher education.

Thus, the invitation to the indefensible Steve Sailer, a garden-variety racist with no academic credentials.

No matter what happens in November, the Rufos and the Sailers of the world are not going away, so look for this “Socratic Dialogue” to happen in 2025.

Maybe it’ll be more fun than it looks: Dr. Marvin Dunn, professor emeritus at FIU and a historian of Florida’s long history of violence against people of color, has also been invited.

Dunn originally suggested he might wear Klan robes to the event, although he now says he was teasing and quite right, too.

The people who should be wearing white hoods are Christopher Rufo and Steve Sailer.

Despite being located right on saltwater, New College is already back in business. Apparently, the off-shore barrier island keys absorbed the worst of the blow.

So, hopefully, my appearance with Professor Wilfred Reilly will be rescheduled and I’ll finally get a chance to set foot on an American campus and display CDC data graphs to raise awareness about how American elites’ promotion of Black Lives Matter’s agenda got many thousands of incremental black lives killed in shootings and car crashes: