Ron DeSantis is forcing Florida colleges to remove their LGBTQ+-inclusive courses

Source: BordAccord

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  1. Everyone deserves to be in an environment that respects and values all people, and removing these courses sends a message that certain voices and experiences aren’t important. Education should foster understanding and acceptance, not exclusion.

  2. Inb4 “who needs classes about sociology or culture anyway? shouldn’t college be strictly limited to training economically valuable skills to create productive workers? there’s no need for young people to learn anything but how to turn their useless human experiences into useful money.”

  3. ColorMeSchocked on

    Interesting how his state had two harsh hurricanes back to back, totaled communities, cost billions in damage. People can’t rebuild thanks to insurance companies leaving the stat, rise in prices yet this man-child is still going after LGBTQ+

    Floridians is this the priority for your state?!

  4. Can’t remove him, but we can vote D down the line and get as many of his lackeys out as possible. That makes it far harder for him to push his bullshit war against “Woke” (whatever he decides that is each day) and keeps us from sliding further into the abyss before we can elect someone new in 2026.

    Fuck. This. Clown.

  5. Vote Blue!

    Get rid of Bigots like DeSantis!

    Eighth grade science teaches us that all human sexuality is guided by a persons brain. There’s no cognitive choice.

  6. When I was in college, I had a writing class with a woman teacher. She never discussed her sexuality (she only mentioned once that she was a lesbian on the last day of class). But I had a feeling she actually wanted to teach Gender Studies or maybe she actually taught that course on the side, because almost every single paper she had us write, the theme was almost always about “Gender Roles”, like what were the gender roles during world war 2, what were the gender roles during other time periods.. basically what were men & women expected to do and how to act in society. And we had a big section of the semester focused on the Harlem Renaissance as well. It actually was a decent class but I remember being slightly annoyed on the fixation of everything being about gender roles, and feminism. It wasn’t that I was against gender studies or feminism, but I kind of wanted to write about other things. Essentially every assignment was variations of those same subjects. She REALLY wanted that to be more of a gender studies class.

    BUT having said that, it was actually good to be exposed to that stuff and learn about it.

    I wonder now if that teacher would be punished for teaching like this now or if it would actually be a loophole to get around the ban, since it’s technically a writing class. I’m guessing though she’d have to change the curriculum though.

  7. How can a governor do that? Wouldn’t it be determined by the school to dictate their curriculum.

  8. DeSantis was that Warhammer 40k fan in high school who liked it because he didn’t realize it was a parody.

  9. theartofanarchy on

    I’m so tired of all the hatred and fear these people spread. The world can be a better place but not with people like Desantis and Trump in charge. Vote like you want to live in a civilized society where truth and human kindness exist.

  10. genericreddituser147 on

    Remember this is the party the cries about free speech when you tell them not to be racist and rails against cancel culture.

  11. Aren’t these the same people who were losing their minds about “safe spaces” and “content warnings” and “banning speakers” at colleges? Which is it, Republicans, do you want freedom of speech or not?

  12. thefanciestcat on

    Small government is where you give the governor the power to determine which classes adults in a university can take.

  13. Damnit, when will this asshole go away?

    Already lost his fight with the mouse and his presidential bid, just fuck off into the sunset already!

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