Over 1.1 million people in Florida
would be eligible for Medicaid if Governor Sanders just said
I agree to expand it.
It's not this, this isn't,
this isn't calculus. I know that a lot of Republicans,
their dream is to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Well, let me say this.
If that's your dream, I'm your nightmare.
Yeah, a feeble geriatric who can't even walk the stairs
of Air Force One wants you to think he's the
political equivalent of
Freddy Krueger, all right. But beyond his cringe worthy taunts,
the speech was telling For what it left out,
Governor Ron DeSantis is successful reshaping of Florida's college system.
Now, after DeSantis unveiled a new playbook for ending
DEI at Florida public universities,
those colleges moved really fast to erase any evidence of
what their plans were.
But my next guest was able to recover them.
Investigative journalist Chris Ruffo has just published A devastating expose
about the University of South
Florida's DEI program. Now, the documents he obtained show how
the school wanted to teach that America is a force
for white supremacy.
That's not all. After the death of George Floyd,
the school encouraged students to attend racially segregated counseling sessions
labeled as healing spaces. Joining us now,
Chris Ruffo, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow.
Chris. The school also promoted so-called White Identity Development.
Take us through that.
So this is an idea of taking critical race Theory
and then applying it using psychological techniques that really resemble
cult programming.
They have a whole infrastructure from their counseling center that
embraces these radical theoretical principles.
But then what they do is they work you through
this position where you have to admit your white guilt,
your white fragility, your white shame,
and then you have to reorganize yourself not towards psychological
health,
but towards left wing racialist ideology.
And So what you're seeing here is that they've taken
those principles of CRT.
They've created all of these fake jobs,
diversity, equity and inclusion, and then they're running kids through
these programs in order to make them left wing activists.
Some of the materials that they've published from their Office
of Multicultural Affairs actually said that they want students to
get out in protest.
They want to support defund the police,
they want to support prison abolition,
every fashionable left wing cause.
And when Ron DeSantis said no more of this,
all the sudden their Webmaster got very busy trying to
delete the documents.
We found them and we're going to hold them accountable.
Yeah, the Office of Multicultural Affairs from USF.
They also released anti racist resources for students,
including on the unlearning of racism and white supremacy,
saying the goal is to facilitate growth for white folks.
Chris, the justification for all this is seemingly benevolent.
You know, we all want to come together and understand
each other more,
but what does this do
to unify the campus?
It doesn't. The point is actually to divide the campus.
They're holding racially segregated counseling sessions.
They're reducing individuals to a racial essence.
You know, I'm not Christopher Ruffo.
I am a white male,
and that's how I should think about myself.
It's poisonous. It's bad for people of all racial backgrounds,
but that is the purpose.
It's to divide. It's to fill people with either shame
or rage.
This is all part of the Critical Race Theory ideology.
And for whatever reason, taxpayers all over of the country
had been funding this stuff for years.
It's time to stop. It's time to take up this
legislation to abolish these offices that don't help anyone.
And I think that's what exactly what Ron DeSantis is
going to do.
Yeah. How is DeSantis? Is defunding
effort going over among the public?
Yeah. Well, I was there at the announcement.
I gave a speech with the governor and people were
going wild.
They loved it. I think it's going to prove to
be very popular.
And what I'm doing with this investigative series just to
show people it sounds good in theory,
in the language that they have diversity,
equity and inclusion. But in practice,
it's left wing racialist ideology and it's wrong.
Well, Chris, great to see you tonight.
Thank you for looking into this for us.