Florida students will be taught that communism is evil, DeSantis says

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Ben Collins
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Jun 23, 2021
Everybody see what this is really all about now?

Florida students will be taught that communism is evil, DeSantis says
The new law comes less than two weeks since Florida's education board banned "critical race theory" from schools.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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The piece details DeSantis banning some ideas, mandating others, and installing a test students must pass before graduating — with nothing comparable coming from the other side — and they drop this nugget
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6:44 AM · Jun 24, 2021

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/nation-world/florida-civics-to-teach-communism-evil/507-6b1855ed-e453-4f67-b5b9-f798062b631b

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The new law will require the development of a K-12 civics curriculum that, among other things, would include “portraits in patriotism” that tell the personal stories of civic-mindedness. Among those stories will be “first-person accounts of victims of other nations’ governing philosophies who can compare those philosophies with those of the United States.”

State university students will be required to pass a civic literacy assessment exam and take a course on civic literacy in order to graduate. Currently they can choose the exam or the course. High school students who take a United States Government course will have to take take a civic literacy assessment exam. If they pass, the university civics requirements will be waived.

The third bill DeSantis signed protects free speech at state universities by saying the schools can't shield students from accessing or observing ideas and opinions "they may find uncomfortable, unwelcome, disagreeable, or offensive.”

Republicans have often criticized universities for promoting liberal ideology. DeSantis said parents worry that when they send their children to universities that they'll become indoctrinated.

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[zuul]

1. Where is the course that teaches DeSantis is evil?

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Is it 1955, already?

Communism may or may not be evil (moreso in practice than in theory), but it is also not particularly relevant to the concerns of the present day.

[brush]

4. Communism is a form of socialism. I'm surprised he didn't just say socialism is evil...

which is what it's all about. He knows that plays well in Florida with Latin American voters.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. They're trying to paint Democrats as communists. nt

[PortTack]

3. The more he tries to put his thumb on these college kids, the more it will backfire

[Aristus]

5. But not that capitalism is also evil?

Hmm. Not even a head-fake in the direction of "both-sides", huh? They're not even pretending anymore...

[Fullduplexxx]

6. But he said "It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you'd be exposed to a

“It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you’d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,”... doesnt different ideas include communism

[NCDem47]

7. Yet...

Soooo much Support for Russia from DeSantis’ Republican brothers and sisters.

[mitch96]

14. "communism is evil," but Russia and putins is good... da tovarish.... nt

[Phoenix61]

8. He wants to bring this back.

https://www.edweek.org/education/fla-anti-communism-course-is-divisive-cold-war-legacy/1983/05

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Sounds like someone is forcing their beliefs and removing objectivity and critical thinking.

[gratuitous]

11. Seen this movie before

Hop: Expressing support for or insufficiently critical opinions about communism will be grounds for punishment for student and faculty alike.

Skip: Failing to report a student's or professor's insufficiently critical opinions about communism will make that person's failure to report grounds for equal culpability.

Jump: In order to be sure that all forms of communism - no matter how small seeming - are rooted out of the university system, students and faculty will be called before a committee to testify to any opinions they may hold or that they may have heard from others. Uncooperative witnesses will be expelled or terminated.

[bahboo]

12. may as well also show fucking Father Knows Best...

on an endless loop in all the classrooms...jesus...

[moondust]

13. It's called "indoctrination."

Very popular in Pyongyang and Beijing and still popular in Moscow considering they recently banned Navalny's group.

[Wingus Dingus]

15. This is bonkers.

[msongs]

16. right out of germany in the 1930s nt

[Solly Mack]

17. Wait. Didn't he just say legislation that says students shouldn't be made to feel uncomfortable/bad?

The third bill DeSantis signed protects free speech at state universities by saying the schools can't shield students from accessing or observing ideas and opinions "they may find uncomfortable, unwelcome, disagreeable, or offensive.”

The bill’s author, Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, told his Texas House colleagues that the legislation was necessary “at a time when racial tensions are at a boiling point” and that “we don’t need to burden our kids with guilt for racial crimes they had nothing to do with.”

The law prohibits teaching that “slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to, the authentic founding principles of the United States.”

[Johonny]

18. Will it include an ontological discussion on the definition of evil?