Even if they think you’re in the in-group, that you agree with them and are the right kind of person, they will still lie to you, use you, and throw you away when they’re done.

I am slightly hopeful, since the article ends on the note that a large number of the student athletes are attempting to actually integrate with students at New College, but I also cannot stress this next part enough:

If you are a high school student trying to plan where to go to college, or a parent of a high school student, DO NOT FUCKING SEND THEM TO ANY RED STATE UNIVERSITY.

Stupid shit like what Desantis tried is happening all over, and is going to keep happening. Republicans have clocked on that higher education universities have been doing a fantastic job at teaching students about the backgrounds of a large and diverse set of cultures, and they need to keep blinders on kids to have any chance of maintaining popularity among the youth. Going to a university in a Republican led state is just asking for a lower quality education that will try and iron out the differences that make people unique. DO NOT DO IT.

For those that didn’t read the article, they ended up getting along in the end and the wokeness rubbed off on some of them. Yay!

This was all somewhat baffling to Totten: In Oklahoma, as far as she knew, people’s pronouns weren’t a thing that was talked about. She had just never, ever heard a discussion of it, or even known that others had such discussions. “I’m being so for real,” she told me, her eyes wide, as we sat at a small table outside the dining hall in October.

The author was so real for keeping that quote.

Why does everything have to be a fucking war? the intersection of ideologies IS culture.

Not a fan of the language is reality crowd but this blowing up in the Nazis face is priceless.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Jayleigh Totten came to New College because she wasn’t happy on her team at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City, a Division II school where students were expected to attend church twice a week.

The athletes were brought to campus at the indirect behest of Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who seized on New College — which he has criticized as a “Marxist commune” — as an ideal political target.

To DeSantis, who often invoked New College during his stump speeches in the Republican presidential primary, the school was a symbol of his assault on left-leaning academia, the athletes a harbinger of a new conservative era.

Amy Reid, the faculty chair and director of the embattled gender-studies program who also serves on the board, told me that many student athletes were surprised to find, upon arrival, that their intended majors — business, sports management, communications — were not offered.

Totten tried to be respectful of everyone she met, but many returning students reported that some of the male athletes, especially, were having a hard time accommodating difference — they pointed and laughed if someone was dressed in high goth or in gender-nonconforming ways.

Chavez helped start the New College chapter of Turning Point U.S.A., a national group founded by Charlie Kirk, a prominent defender of Donald Trump who amplifies the lie that President Biden’s election was fraudulent.

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