Governor Ron DeSantis seized control of New College by installing half-a-dozen hard-right trustees and instructing them to turn the small progressive liberal arts college into the Hillsdale of the South. One of his appointees was Chris Rufo, the extremist who invented the furor over critical race theory.
At a recent campus event, a New College student spit on Rufo. He filed charges against her for her “attack” on him.
The State Attorney’s office dropped misdemeanor battery charges against a New College of Florida student who was accused of spitting on Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist and one of the school’s trustees.
Libby Harrity, 20, was charged with misdemeanor battery on July 7 in connection with a Gov. Ron DeSantis bill signing at New College on May 15, when Harrity allegedly spat at Rufo. DeSantis’ visit to sign a bill banning state funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs at state universities drew vocal protest from students, who have organized against his reshaping of the college since January.
The governor has said he wants to turn New College into a “classical liberal” college akin to the Christian, conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I believe that the most effective answer to DeSantis’s attacks on Florida’s colleges and universities is to make them ghost towns. One step would be a mass exodus from those schools to out-of-state schools by any students who can afford it. Another step would be for Florida high school students to not apply to those schools in the first place. I’ve already contacted my NJ State Legislators about NJ loudly and publicly guaranteeing in-state tuition for any students fleeing attacks on higher education in their home states, OR the same tuition as they would pay in their home states, whichever is lower.
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YES!
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I despite Rufo, but in the age of COVID, spitting on someone is a serious assault.
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*despise.
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Yes. And leaving severity aside, the idea that it’s not actually an “assault” is wrong.
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“Classical liberal”
Is this a new, misleading term designed to make a fascist propaganda outfit sound more appealing?
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Hardly new. Classical liberalism is free market laissez faire capitalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
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Rufo Was Lucky it was only Spit”
Rhymes with spit
And smells of sewer
Rufo’s fit
For horse manure
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Now if she had thrown that….
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Christopher Rufo is not big on “turn the other cheek.”
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I know we don’t like Rufo, but I really don’t like suggestion that spitting on someone is not an assault. It’s disgusting, it’s invasive, and it’s potentially dangerous.
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It is disgusting and it’s hostile, but assault is a bit strong.
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When a protester threw an egg at Gov Schwarzenegger and hit him on the shoulder in a crowd, he simply removed his jacket and kept walking. I disagreed with most of what he did, but at least Arnold wasn’t childish enough to even think about pressing charges. And this was a college kid who spit on Rufo. I don’t endorse throwing eggs or spitting, but Rufo’s reaction gives us a prime example of how far Republicans have regressed.
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Would the person who threw the egg at Arnold would be a Schwarzen egger?
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Schwarzen egger threw an egg
Hit the Ahhhnold in the leg
Ahhnold simply wiped it off
Schwarzenegger’s really tough
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Chris Rufo, such a delicate snowflake.
He can’t handle any kind of dissent, just like DeSatan.
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yup
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“The spit? You can’t handle the spit!”
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Ron DisSentis
DisSentis can’t handle the spit
He really can’t handle it
DisSentis can’t handle DisSent
Which makes him knotted and bent
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DisSentis Bad”
Dissent is bad for Ron
Gets panties in a wad
Which really isn’t fun
Its nothing to applaud
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Wonder why the charges were dropped?
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Turning the Other Cheek
A kinder gentler Ron
Who does what kind folks do
To turn the other bun
And moon them with the view
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So it wasn’t like a regular tourist day?
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“The First Amendment debates on Spitting”
Freedom to spit
And freedom to shit
Are freedoms, to whit
That Founders did crit
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The Founding Fathers had no problem with slavery but spitting was simply beyond the pail.
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Ie, spitting beyond the pail was beyond the pale.
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SDP: I see you slept on that one
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The original misspelling was actually intentional
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But it might not have been obvious that that was the case.
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The problem is the Spit”
The problem is the spit
It isn’t Ronny’s laws
It isn’t Ronny’s writ
It isn’t Ronny’s clause
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