Desantis Declares Himself Emperor Of Florida?

[Swammerdami]

This video looks at what this horrid and disgusting Governor has done to New College.



If someone had told me ten or twenty years that this was what America was changing into, I would have laughed at their hyperbole.

 

[Playball40]

Cannot wait to leave this hell hole

 

[Ford]

But wait...there's more!

Whatabout Both Sides of Slavery?

a lesson in the Advanced Placement course focused on how Europeans benefited from trading enslaved people and the materials enslaved laborers produced. The state objected to the content, saying the instructional approach “may lead to a viewpoint of an ‘oppressor vs. oppressed’ based solely on race or ethnicity.”

In another lesson about the beginnings of slavery, the course delved into how tens of thousands of enslaved Africans had been “removed from the continent to work on Portuguese-colonized Atlantic islands and in Europe” and how those “plantations became a model for slave-based economy in the Americans.”

In response, the state raised concerns that the unit “may not address the internal slave trade/system within Africa” and that it “may only present one side of this issue and may not offer any opposing viewpoints or other perspectives on the subject.”

Really? Really.

 

[ZiprHead]

Broward says losses mount for tourism as more conventions stay away, citing fear for safety of diverse groups

Broward County tourism officials say that financial losses are continuing to mount as conventions once scheduled for Fort Lauderdale have opted to go someplace else. The tally now stands at 14, with four of those conventions backing out in August alone, according to Visit Lauderdale, the agency...

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Broward County tourism officials say that financial losses are continuing to mount as conventions once scheduled for Fort Lauderdale have opted to go someplace else.

The tally now stands at 14, with four of those conventions backing out in August alone, according to Visit Lauderdale, the agency formerly known as the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau.

They cite Florida’s culture wars on issues that critics say attack Blacks, gays, and transgender youth, as well as policies targeting state universities as well as migrants.

Broward’s tourism arm said the lost conventions could have brought hotel stays to Fort Lauderdale and its surrounding cities, which also meant money spent on restaurants and attractions.

Fight woke, go broke.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

But wait...there's more!

Whatabout Both Sides of Slavery?

a lesson in the Advanced Placement course focused on how Europeans benefited from trading enslaved people and the materials enslaved laborers produced. The state objected to the content, saying the instructional approach “may lead to a viewpoint of an ‘oppressor vs. oppressed’ based solely on race or ethnicity.”

In another lesson about the beginnings of slavery, the course delved into how tens of thousands of enslaved Africans had been “removed from the continent to work on Portuguese-colonized Atlantic islands and in Europe” and how those “plantations became a model for slave-based economy in the Americans.”

In response, the state raised concerns that the unit “may not address the internal slave trade/system within Africa” and that it “may only present one side of this issue and may not offer any opposing viewpoints or other perspectives on the subject.”

Really? Really.

FLORIDA DECLARATION OF CAUSES
(undated and untitled)
State Archives of Florida, Series 577, Carton 1, Folder 6,
“Gov. Madison Starke Perry – Constitutional Convention 1861"

.....
.Nothing is more certain than this and at no distant day. What must be the condition of the slaves themselves when their number becomes so large that their labor will be of no value to their owners. Their natural tendency every where shown where the race has existed to idleness vagrancy and crime increased by an inability to procure subsistence. Can any thing be more impudently false than the pretense that this state of things is to be brought about from considerations of humanity to the slaves.
......

Yes. Slavery prepares slaves for skills and good jobs. Really!

Florida Declaration

 

[ZiprHead]

The Real Story Behind Ron DeSantis’ Newest Fired Prosecutor

Ron DeSantis bragged at the GOP debate about firing two prosecutors in his state. His latest conquest is now speaking out.

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In the latest instance, the governor did one sheriff a huge favor by firing Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell just as she was about to crack down on a wide-ranging cover-up by deputies who, she says, were faking documents to hide lethal and abusive behavior.

“They thought that I was overly critical of law enforcement and didn't do anything against ‘real criminals,’” Worrell told The Daily Beast in an interview last week. “Apparently there’s a difference between citizens who commit crimes and cops who commit crimes.”

Worrell continued that there are approximately 20 law enforcement agencies in Central Florida. “And they were all working against me, because I was prosecuting their cops, the ones who used to do things and get away with them,” she said.

Worrell told The Daily Beast that two incidents in particular had called prosecutors’ attention. In one, a deputy made headlines when he decided to repeatedly tase an annoying dirtbiker who’d led cops on a chase—only his decision to fire his taser happened at a Wawa gas station, setting off a fireball that caused injuries and was caught on tape. In the other, two deputies opened fire on a group of four men in a car at a Target parking lot who appeared to have stolen items from the store minutes earlier. One died, and two others were gravely injured.

But as the State Attorney’s own investigators dug around, they started finding evidence of police covering for each other’s lies in several other cases, she said.

“As we were investigating, there was all sorts of illegal activity that started coming up: officers signing each other’s reports, getting them notarized in someone else’s name when they signed them themselves, fraudulent documents,” she told The Daily Beast.

 

[blastula]

Desantis trying to use government again for something stupid.

DeSantis setting aside $1 million for possible legal fight over FSU football playoff snub

"We're setting aside a million dollars for any litigation expenses that may come as a result of this really, really poor decision," the governor said.

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The fallout from Florida State football's snub from the College Football Playoffs took another turn this week.

On Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he is asking lawmakers to set aside $1 million for any lawsuits revolving around FSU's snub from the CFP, despite going undefeated and winning the ACC Championship.

But Trump knows who to blame for this grave injustice.

 

[TomC]

Lucky for Floridians that nobody there has a more pressing need or use for taxpayers money than a college football team in a squabble.
Tom

 

[ZiprHead]

Hmmm. AP does rank Florida at no. 4. I don't know about litigation but not giving them a berth doesn't seem right to me.

 

[ideologyhunter]

My advocacy group, Magamaniac Tours, offered a free beachfront vacay to DeSantis' wife and kids. We were gonna drop 'em off in Guatemala. They were suspicious, though, of free travel offers. Shame.

 

[ZiprHead]

Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class

Educators are warning that college enrollment in Florida will plummet after the state removed sociology as a core class from campuses in the latest round of Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke ideology”.

The Republican governor’s hand-picked board of education voted on Wednesday to replace the established course on the principles of sociology at its 12 public universities with its own US history curriculum, incorporating an “historically accurate account of America’s founding [and] the horrors of slavery”.

The board faced a backlash last summer for requiring public schools to teach that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved Black people because it taught them useful skills.

The removal as a required core course of sociology classes, which Florida education commissioner and staunch DeSantis acolyte Manny Díaz insisted without evidence had “been hijacked by leftwing activists”, follows several other recent “anti-woke” moves in education in Florida.

They include the banning an advanced placement class in African American studies, and last week’s board ruling crystalizing a plan by DeSantis, who dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination over the weekend, to abolish diversity, enquiry and inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida’s universities and colleges.

The American Sociological Association said there was no evidentiary basis for replacing the sociology course.

“This decision seems to be coming not from an informed perspective, but rather from a gross misunderstanding of sociology as an illegitimate discipline driven by ‘radical’ and ‘woke’ ideology,” the American Sociological Association said in a statement to the Guardian.

“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.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class

Educators are warning that college enrollment in Florida will plummet after the state removed sociology as a core class from campuses in the latest round of Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke ideology”.

The Republican governor’s hand-picked board of education voted on Wednesday to replace the established course on the principles of sociology at its 12 public universities with its own US history curriculum, incorporating an “historically accurate account of America’s founding [and] the horrors of slavery”.

The board faced a backlash last summer for requiring public schools to teach that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved Black people because it taught them useful skills.

The removal as a required core course of sociology classes, which Florida education commissioner and staunch DeSantis acolyte Manny Díaz insisted without evidence had “been hijacked by leftwing activists”, follows several other recent “anti-woke” moves in education in Florida.

They include the banning an advanced placement class in African American studies, and last week’s board ruling crystalizing a plan by DeSantis, who dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination over the weekend, to abolish diversity, enquiry and inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida’s universities and colleges.

The American Sociological Association said there was no evidentiary basis for replacing the sociology course.

“This decision seems to be coming not from an informed perspective, but rather from a gross misunderstanding of sociology as an illegitimate discipline driven by ‘radical’ and ‘woke’ ideology,” the American Sociological Association said in a statement to the Guardian.

“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.

Classes that teach about society are a big problem for those who want to manipulate you.

 

[ZiprHead]

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that part of Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" unconstitutionally infringes upon employers' free speech rights.

Governor DeSantis is unhappy about this:

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that companies have a right to indoctrinate their employees with racist and discriminatory ideologies....

....We are reviewing all options on appeal going forward.

 

[Bomb#20]

Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class

Educators are warning that college enrollment in Florida will plummet after the state removed sociology as a core class from campuses in the latest round of Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke ideology”.
...
The American Sociological Association said there was no evidentiary basis for replacing the sociology course.
...
“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.

From the link in the link...

"The Board of Governors approved an amendment to add Introductory Survey to 1877 to the core course options for social sciences. This American history course replaces Principles of Sociology.

The addition provides students with the opportunity to take a factual history course that focuses on the forces that shaped America as part of their general education course requirements. ..."​

I.e., they aren't getting rid of the sociology course; they're just making it an elective.

Any educator who seriously imagines that students are going to pass on college or go elsewhere because Florida schools allow them to decide for themselves whether to take Principles of Sociology instead of letting said educator make the decision for them has evidently not formed his or her beliefs about the social causes and consequences of human behavior by means of scientific study.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

What part of "factual history course" isn't virtue signaling to the alt-right?

This move won't shatter the foundations of colleges in Florida, but it is clearly a needless political move. And begs what exactly is being taught in the "factual" history curriculum.

Lesson 4: The perfect days of the gold standard and how you can use gold coins to help your retirement fund.
Lesson 5: Helping the Indians move to a new home.
Lesson 6 - 8: Property dispute of the early to mid 1860s.

 

[Politesse]

What part of "factual history course" isn't virtue signaling to the alt-right?

At this point, they're remembering "how history was taught in the good old days" in a fundamentally inaccurate way that has more to do with what Fox said last week than anything they actually remember from 1965, then insisting that their nostalgic but false vague recollection ought to be the basis for curriculum.

 

[Politesse]

Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class

Educators are warning that college enrollment in Florida will plummet after the state removed sociology as a core class from campuses in the latest round of Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke ideology”.

The Republican governor’s hand-picked board of education voted on Wednesday to replace the established course on the principles of sociology at its 12 public universities with its own US history curriculum, incorporating an “historically accurate account of America’s founding [and] the horrors of slavery”.

The board faced a backlash last summer for requiring public schools to teach that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved Black people because it taught them useful skills.

The removal as a required core course of sociology classes, which Florida education commissioner and staunch DeSantis acolyte Manny Díaz insisted without evidence had “been hijacked by leftwing activists”, follows several other recent “anti-woke” moves in education in Florida.

They include the banning an advanced placement class in African American studies, and last week’s board ruling crystalizing a plan by DeSantis, who dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination over the weekend, to abolish diversity, enquiry and inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida’s universities and colleges.

The American Sociological Association said there was no evidentiary basis for replacing the sociology course.

“This decision seems to be coming not from an informed perspective, but rather from a gross misunderstanding of sociology as an illegitimate discipline driven by ‘radical’ and ‘woke’ ideology,” the American Sociological Association said in a statement to the Guardian.

“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.

Classes that teach about society are a big problem for those who want to manipulate you.

Correct. There is only one reason to try and prevent someone from learning about the social sciences.

 

[Worldtraveller]

What part of "factual history course" isn't virtue signaling to the alt-right?

At this point, they're remembering "how history was taught in the good old days" in a fundamentally inaccurate way that has more to do with what Fox said last week than anything they actually remember from 1965, then insisting that their nostalgic but false vague recollection ought to be the basis for curriculum.

For the sake of accuracy, I think the year you're looking for is 1964.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class

Educators are warning that college enrollment in Florida will plummet after the state removed sociology as a core class from campuses in the latest round of Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke ideology”.

The Republican governor’s hand-picked board of education voted on Wednesday to replace the established course on the principles of sociology at its 12 public universities with its own US history curriculum, incorporating an “historically accurate account of America’s founding [and] the horrors of slavery”.

The board faced a backlash last summer for requiring public schools to teach that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved Black people because it taught them useful skills.

The removal as a required core course of sociology classes, which Florida education commissioner and staunch DeSantis acolyte Manny Díaz insisted without evidence had “been hijacked by leftwing activists”, follows several other recent “anti-woke” moves in education in Florida.

They include the banning an advanced placement class in African American studies, and last week’s board ruling crystalizing a plan by DeSantis, who dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination over the weekend, to abolish diversity, enquiry and inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida’s universities and colleges.

The American Sociological Association said there was no evidentiary basis for replacing the sociology course.

“This decision seems to be coming not from an informed perspective, but rather from a gross misunderstanding of sociology as an illegitimate discipline driven by ‘radical’ and ‘woke’ ideology,” the American Sociological Association said in a statement to the Guardian.

“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.

Classes that teach about society are a big problem for those who want to manipulate you.

Correct. There is only one reason to try and prevent someone from learning about the social sciences.

Well two, the other is to help them go with a real major.

 

[ZiprHead]

Florida Board fails hilariously at proving "Slavery taught skills"

So, in their attempt to defend Florida from the vicious attacks by Vice President Harris, Ron Desantis proclaimed that being an enslaved person “taught skills” which could be used later in life. (Presumably as a free person). Alex Wagner and Jelani...

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So, in their attempt to defend Florida from the vicious attacks by Vice President Harris, Ron Desantis proclaimed that being an enslaved person “taught skills” which could be used later in life. (Presumably as a free person). Alex Wagner and Jelani Cobb destroyed this argument.

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Here's Ron Desantis come back where he says it beneficial to “parlay” being a blacksmith — like Henry Blair — as a benefit “later in life.” Besides the fact that Blair was born a free man when he became a blacksmith, American Chattle Slavery was for life, exactly when was that “later time” supposed to be? In the afterlife?