Discarded gender and diversity books trigger a new culture clash at a Florida college

Associated Press

A tiny Florida college is once again at the center of the state’s culture wars after a dumpster left the campus library filled with hundreds of books. The New College of Florida says its library was performing a routine culling of its collection, mostly of old and damaged volumes. But students and activists say they also saved books taken from the school’s student-run Gender and Diversity Center that would also have been discarded. The American Civil Liberties Union called it “a brazen act of censorship.” Christopher Rufo, appointed to the college’s governing board by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, posted on social media: “We abolished the gender studies program. Now we’re throwing out the trash.”