Florida bill to shield people from feeling 'discomfort' over historic actions

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(CNN)A bill backed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit Florida's public schools and private businesses from making people feel "discomfort" or "guilt" based on their race, sex or national origin received first approval Tuesday by the state's Senate Education Committee.

The Republican-controlled committee approved the bill with six Republican senators in favor of the bill and three Democratic senators opposed to it.

Although the bill, named "Individual Freedom," does not mention Critical Race Theory, the term is used in the attached bill analysis that was given to senators.

DeSantis also referred to CRT when he announced the proposed legislation at a media event in December, saying the proposed law would help keep CRT out of the schools and out of the workplace, calling it "state-sanctioned racism" that creates a "hostile work environment."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/us/florida-education-critical-race-theory-bill/index.html`

[Fullduplexxx]

1. This from the "fuck your feelings " crowd.... what a bunch of snowflakes

[moose65]

16. Exactly!

They are the whiniest people on the face of the earth, and they dare to call us "snowflakes."

Sheesh.

[intheflow]

19. HAhahaha!

OMG, that's what I'm going to answer to every twitter post I see on this subject: Fuck your feelings, Snowflake."

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

2. This could backfire

As noted by the tweet below

Link to tweet

?s=20

[ms liberty]

5. This. n/t

[sop]

7. Or the discomfort kids (and parents) experience whenever another school mass shooting occurs.

Sue the NRA, gun manufacturers and DeSantis for turning Florida into a shooting gallery.

[Lonestarblue]

12. That was my first thought as well.

I remember an incident from a few years ago when white parents called the cops because two Native American boys were participating in a college tour and the parents decided that they had no right to be there. Those boys could use this type of law to sue the parents. This could be an excellent way to turn the tables on the snowflake Republicans who melt at the mere mention of topics like Jim Crow, the KKK, and white attacks on black communities, as in Tulsa.

[inthewind21]

21. This WILL

backfire.

[IronLionZion]

3. The "you can't erase history" folks

are always erasing history that makes them uncomfortable

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

4. Yep

And they love their confederate monuments because “you can’t erase history”….wouldn’t those monuments make people uncomfortable, therefore based on this bill need to come down

[sop]

6. Slouching towards fascism:

Body cams and mics on teachers, book burnings, criminalizing teaching history that might cause discomfort to students (but only to white kids), banning covid masks in classrooms...

[Wuddles440]

11. Yes,...

but it's more like a sprint!

[The Jungle 1]

8. I feel discomfort that our nation does not want to teach history

They don't want to teach history because they WANT TO REPEAT IT.
American racists are in shock that the filthy murders of Ahmaud Arbery were arrested, tried and convicted. The racist are pissing their pants. No way would that happen in the good old days.
How are they suppose to control minorities if they can't kill a few now and then.
Americans must speak up.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Hear, hear

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Such utter BS. Whitewashing history so racists can be comfortable perpetuating racism.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Title should say "White peope", not "people". nt

[twodogsbarking]

14. Florida makes me feel uncomfortable.

DeSatanis makes me ill.

[treestar]

15. Putting it in a law is ridiculous

But there are many times we've been told not to say this or that due to hurtfulness to POC. But at least no one put it in a law.

Nobody today was part of the history, so all people should learn to deal with it without it being a personally uncomfortable thing.

[Dorn]

17. Newspeak or Floridaspeak?

“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”

[chowder66]

18. Incredible. The bill should have gotten people therapy instead. nt

[SunSeeker]

20. Not the Onion folks.

[tclambert]

22. According to DNA, I'm about 25% German, so they couldn't teach me about WWII?

'Cause some people make the Germans sound like the bad guys in that slice of history.

Oh, and the DNA analysis says I'm 10% English. So I guess no teaching me about the American Revolution. If you start calling King George III a tyrant, it might hurt 10% of my feelings.

[JCMach1]

23. Since one of my ancestors was burned at the stake I can't possibly

Learn anything about Catholicism...

Ditto for the founding of America and the genocide of some of my ancestors...

Oh yeah also descended from King John, sooo no Magna Carta for me.