Predicting two terms in the White House should he defeat Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination next year, Ron DeSantis said he would go on to “destroy leftism in this country”.
“I will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology in the dustbin of history,” the Florida governor told Fox News.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/30/ron-desantis-fox-news-interview-destroy-leftism
I have to say that's extremely unlikely but it's a great goal. Leftists are insane and when insane people are pushed they do inane things. Leftism will have to be neutralized with common sense and logic. The best place to start the process would be to get rid of leftism in the education system in America.
Not as stupid as you apparently. It's quite clear that leftism has been a cancer on this country. It should be eradicated in all haste but it won't happen by fiat. Eradicating leftist fundamentalism from schools is how we root out.
DeSantis will set up concentration camps for Lefties, place any white kids under 12 with "decent" families and imprison the rest.
He'll put the Lefties, the woke and anyone who doesn't salute his regime to work building a wall around the US. Any who dies will be left to rot on the outside of the wall.
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DeSantis supports freedom of speech on America's campuses.
That distresses you - if you can't silence Americans, dangerous ideas like liberty and decency might threaten your Reich.


I wanted to give you a heads up about a recent law that has passed our legislature, SB 266, which goes into effect on July 1. For those of you who haven't followed the details, this law intervenes in higher education in a variety of ways that impact us, and I am happy to discuss any of this in more detail in person or over the phone/zoom. If anyone is interested, I can ask someone from the Counsel's office to attend our retreat to share their perspective on this with us.
Chairs met with some of the university lawyers earlier this week, and they pointed out some of the sections of the law that might be important for us.
While I would recommend that you familiarize yourself with the entire law, if you are teaching general education, you may want to attend to the section on general education that begins on line 528, with special attention to section c (line 556-561) and D2 (lines 567-571). I'm not sending this on because I anticipate problems, but simply for you to be aware of.
Section c: "(c) General education core courses may not distort significant historical events or include a curriculum that teaches identity politics, violates s. 1000.05, or is based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities."
https://leiterreports.typepad.com/b...iss-war-on-higher-educationon-the-ground.html
Raising the question what exactly is meant by "General education core courses"? A junior or senior year course in "African American Studies", for example, would seem to be outside this category. A general history course would be able to take up the obvious existence of racism without identifying it as "inherent in the institutions of the United States", raising the question how would and could it be identified. Racism was obviously inherent in the institutions of Southern states in the Civil War era. The governments of those states even proudly claimed it as such. So does this mean a general American history course would be unable to teach students the South Carolina "Declaration of Secession"?
Raising the question what exactly is meant by "General education core courses"? A junior or senior year course in "African American Studies", for example, would seem to be outside this category. A general history course would be able to take up the obvious existence of racism without identifying it as "inherent in the institutions of the United States", raising the question how would and could it be identified. Racism was obviously inherent in the institutions of Southern states in the Civil War era. The governments of those states even proudly claimed it as such. So does this mean a general American history course would be unable to teach students the South Carolina "Declaration of Secession"?
This is what the law says is included:
Section c: "(c) General education core courses may not distort significant historical events or include a curriculum that teaches identity politics, violates s. 1000.05, or is based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities."
It’s is written in language that is clear enough that even you can understand it, Marty.
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Someone who supports free speech does not pass laws banning books he does not like.
If I didn't understand it, dumbo, I wouldn't have put up that comment. The South Carolina Legislature, probably in sympathy with much of today's Florida legislature, expressly stated "Negroes" were an inferior race that benefited from white slavery. This was, in fact, a prevailing opinion in Southern white culture and a rationale in Southern legal systems. The Florida rule seems to prohibit public colleges and universities from teaching it.
Conservatives and Libertarians spend a not zero number of minutes every day thinking about what's in a kid's pants.
Leftists do not.
What year was that, in which YOU DEMOCRATS in the South Carolina Legislature said this?