Wow, the rush to the past is not slowing down even as Florida reaches the edge of the cliff. Anything that threatens right wing fundamentalist Christian world view must be banned, removed, buried along with the regressive indoctrination taught. What is the republican idea of real history? That slaves benefited by being slaves? Rapes and beatings were free for them, I guess? How did we get here, to this point?
The US was not always a backwards country. We started out with a radical idea, a representative democracy. Let the people have a say in how things are run. Other countries took this idea and made it great for the public. The future US kind of tried to pull it together, had a major set back with entrenched racism, which we are still dealing with today. Then a period of growth for some, oppression for others. Then the Enlightenment of the New Deal where again the people, the public welfare mattered. Yes we struggled as each generation challenged the generation before them to expand and grow, open up society so more people could share in it equally. Then we had a pivotal moment. A black man was voted in to the highest office in our country, the Presidency. The right / those that couldn’t accept equality lost their collective minds. And overnight racism became vogue again, became acceptable to be publicly voiced by some people. Leaders of political groups on the right, and religious leaders also on the right rallied their followers to push the idea that racism is not wrong as was held true for 40+ years and these people pushed back on the gains in equality of the blacks.
Well that worked so well for them that racism was extended back to mean anyone not white. Yes all brown people were deficient and inferior along with basically born bad, especially brown people at the southern border who wanted only to come to the US to work and share the “American dream”. Well that got a mob boss thug wannabe elected president who gave his followers permission to throw all decency away and revert back to the lowest common denominator they could be. Racism was joined by bigotry against anyone different, openly being crude, rude, and thuggish became OK for them. As long as it was towards others, not them. They demanded they and only them be given back the celebrated highest position in society / the country with everyone else being made lessor with many fewer rights. They want a return to a distant past before enlightenment, and with the added boost of recreating a fictitious history that never was, which is that the US was founded as a Christian country. With a racist bigoted moron leading the way, the right surged into office propelled by the idea of taking back the country to something worse for most people but great for a minority. The minority that was to be given a higher station loved it, and with the majority not paying much attention, managed to get into positions of authority over schools.
Now they used that authority to attack all areas with the full force of racism, bigotry, and forced religious indoctrination. Christianity only though, no other religion was acceptable. They removed books or media that had any member of society they disliked, they did the same for any ideas expressed they disagreed with. Freedom became only for them, white cis straight Christians, all others had no freedom. Parent’s rights were twisted to mean only the rights of white cis straight Christian racist bigots, and those rights included forcing every child to be indoctrinated with the right wing racist bigoted Christian teachings regardless of the child’s parents wishes. A complete authoritarian take over was what they tried.
It was noticed because like all bigots they were not quiet about the damage they were doing once they got the authority to do it. They aggressively rammed their backwards oppression on everyone. History has shown when they tried this same shit in the past, it was quickly stopped so they tried to create laws cementing their ideas in place. But the public which was still a progressive majority woke up, and started fighting back. They took back a lot of the school boards, they took back as many positions as came up for vote. The only ones they couldn’t fix were the ones not yet up for vote, like Governor and state officials. Which brings us to now, today in Florida where educational classes on subjects long thought important for the growth of students is being removed to further the forced indoctrination of right wing political racism, bigotry, and Christianity along with a made up fictional history. Hugs. Scottie
Two quotes from the article.
“Sociology is the scientific study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior, which are at the core of civic literacy and are essential to a broad range of careers,” the association said in a statement to the New York Times.
“Failure to prioritize the scientific study of the causes and consequences of human behavior is a failure of Florida’s commitment to providing high-quality civics education and workforce readiness,” it added.
Students should be focused on learning the ‘truth,’ rather than be ‘radicalized by woke ideologies in the college classrooms,’ said education commissioner
Published 01/26/24 10:05 PM ET|Updated 01/26/24 10:05 PM ETRon DeSantis: On a mission to reshape education.Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called “anti-woke” crusade has now removed sociology as a core class from all 12 of the state’s public universities.
The Board of Governors voted to make the change on Wednesday. A core sociology course was also removed earlier this month from all 28 Florida public colleges, meaning that Florida students will no longer be able to chose sociology to fulfill their core class requirements.
What the board refers to as a “factual history course” is replacing Principles of Sociology in the universities in what is widely seen as the start of a general rout of sociology classes.
When discussing sociology late last year, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. said that “students should be focused on learning the truth about our country instead of being radicalized by woke ideologies in the college classrooms.” He also said the subject had been “hijacked by left-wing activists.”
The Board of Education has promised the history curriculum will include an examination of the “horrors” of slavery, even though the same board pressed lower schools to teach that slaves — who lost their freedom, were beaten, raped and forced to labor for their masters — benefited from slavery because they learned work “skills”
Educators warned that students will flee Florida’s universities to obtain legitimate educations required for careers and by employers elsewhere.
Florida has one of the country’s largest public university systems, with more than 430,000 students.
The latest change is part of a sweeping reorganization of education in Florida from top to bottom. Under DeSantis’ sweeping book censorship, at least one district has banned dictionaries from their schools’ libraries because they contain the word “sex.”
The American Sociological Association called the decision to dump the core sociology class “outrageous,” and one informed by a “gross misunderstanding” of sociology as somehow “radical.”
“Sociology is the scientific study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior, which are at the core of civic literacy and are essential to a broad range of careers,” the association said in a statement to the New York Times.
“Failure to prioritize the scientific study of the causes and consequences of human behavior is a failure of Florida’s commitment to providing high-quality civics education and workforce readiness,” it added.
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Hi Scottie;
That is amazing! Ok, in light of the “anti-woke” ideology — which, let us consider definitions when “woke” refers to ‘being aware’, so “anti-woke” translates to a definition of “remaining ignorant”! — so, I guess not so surprising a move by the lead dipshit in your lovely state. But, again, he is not seeking to really help anyone, including his base.
Quite simply, the study of sociology is the study of people, people groups, religion, sports, economics, roads and travel, resources, laws, ethics and morale and a host of other issues developing around the construction of a society and how things change. The smart business man does not develop a horse farrier business in downtown New York circa 2024, no matter how brilliant that business would have been in the past. Conversely, the creators of Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Ford, John Deere all need a very good understanding of how society is working and changing.
That begs this one thought for me: if he is not interested in allowing his common freshman collegiate to get this information, you can bet he is quite interested in the rich entrepreneur’s child getting it. Well, credit trumpkf: the republicans do love the undereducated.
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randy
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Hello Randy. You are too smart, you see though their talking points and goals. The people like DeathSantis send their kids to private schools that are exempt from nasty laws that constraint public schools. Yes they do want the workers, the wage slaves to be ignorant and easy to control. They want them uneducated, knowing only enough to do the tasks assigned them by their betters.
DeathSantis is an Ivy League educated idiot asshole. He had highly educated parents and went to Yale then Harvard Law School, but he only graduated with a Juris Doctor. Between schools, he taught history and coached. In other words, the very person he now attacks regularly.
It is so clear to me what is happening with the anti-woke don’t say gay don’t let kids know that there are different ways of living. It is the continuation of the republican pushed idea that no one should look overseas, but only accept that the US is number 1 in all things. The US is and must be the greatest in everything at all times. Even though that is a complete myth and lie. Why is it so important for republicans that people in the US believe that lie? Because in other countries the public matters, the people are cared for by the government, the government works for the people. Republicans are terrified people would see that.
The republican goal has always been to return to the gilded age, when ultra wealthy ruled and government had no power over businesses. The republicans want to return to a time of respect for businesses, and respect for wealth. They want the 1900s, but right now they are aiming for the 1950s.
But to get there they must roll back all the social progress of the last 90 years. Roll back civil rights movement for blacks and minorities. They must roll back rights for women. They must roll back education advances, they must roll back supports for the LGBTQIA, they simply have to derail the idea that individual people have rights other than cis straight Christian males. Plus they have to defeat the idea that all people are equal. No they are not, wealthy people clearly are better, white people are superior, males are superior to women, and only cis straight people are normal.
It is something I hope they fail at, but Iran and Afghanistan is showing them how with the moral police and the Taliban. Plus China and Russia are their idols and paymasters. Hugs. Scottie
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