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Thursday, April 5th, 2018

FAU Students Confront Professor Outed for Ties to White Nationalist Group

Author:     Jerry Iannelli
Source:     Miami New Times
Publication Date:     April 4, 2018 | 4:24pm
 Link: FAU Students Confront Professor Outed for Ties to White Nationalist Group
Stephan:   The Koch brothers and the Mercers are conducting a very well funded sub rosa campaign to destroy free public elementary and secondary education, converting it to charter and private schools.  But that is not the end of it. They are also funding professors at the college level to spread their racist christofascist Randian propaganda to university students. It is an organized and very deliberate program to brainwash young people to the christofascist world view, and it is eerily similar to what is done in  North Korea. Here is an example of what I mean at the college level.

Last month, an activist group outed a longtime Florida Atlantic University professor as a recipient of funding from the billionaire, conservative Koch brothers and, more troubling, as a former member of the League of the South Institute, the “educational” arm of an outright white nationalist group. As New Times noted weeks ago, Marshall DeRosa has written articles soft-peddling the morality of Confederate slavery as recently as August 2017.

Now FAU students have begun to protest and post anti-DeRosa flyers around campus, while others have shown up at events featuring DeRosa to confront him about his views about the slave-owning Confederacy.

This past Monday, FAU held a regular faculty meeting that DeRosa attended. During an open Q&A session at the end of the meeting, a group of students asked him to explain his views on slavery and the Confederacy.

Videos of the meeting show DeRosa ended up in a shouting match with an FAU graduate student and member of the Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward County.

“I want the faculty here to know that we employ someone with ties to white supremacist groups,” the student said to the room. “And if we do this, how can we say we are ethically, […]

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