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  Wow.... I saved it to study it my damn self. Good that is out there so others can do the same.
context: Desantis wants to do this to the entire country. >
  
  He’s so dangerous. >
  
  He is a racist piece of crap. >
  
  Don’t hold yourself back there stranger, let’s be honest, Ron Desantis is a fascist, racist, pile of human shit. And he deserves nothing less than being called a fucking pile of excrement. >
  
  He’s also a misogynist, don’t forget that part >
  
  Sane people: "We should tear down these Confederate statues."
  GOP: "No! Otherwise we might forget our history and then we'll be doomed to repeat it!"
  Sane people: "Oh, no problem, see, we're just gonna teach people about slavery and the Civil War in school."
  GOP: "No! That doesn't have any educational value...."
  Sane people: "....." >
  
  Become? >
  
  We are trying to hold on. I recently got my medical marijuana license and then realized that doesn’t mean shit lol. All employers are still free to fire you over weed. >
  
  Maybe talk to the 99% of people with that license who are completely full of it. >
  
  Maybe talk to doctors buddy. I didn’t make the parameters of what counts as able to be prescribed. I will tell you this though I am a 90% disabled veteran who was able to quit Cymbalta which made me a zombie thanks to marijuana. So can kiss my ass if you try are trying to hate on marijuana I think it should be recreational world wide. >
  
  Enjoy getting high if that’s what you want to do with your life. >
  
  Do you say the same thing when someone cracks open a beer? Get out of here with this weird Reaganite take. >
  
  People who drink beer don’t insult everyone’s intelligence by pretending it is a medical treatment. >
  
  As veteran, a lover of people, and someone who’s watched my buddies struggle returning from “over there” - you can fuck right off. >
  
  So Florida as a state can do this, but don't they lose federal funding for education since it isn't being used? >
  
  They don’t care because Florida republicans want to privatize education into charter schools. >
  
  The AP program is run and administered by a private, non-profit educational organization. >
  
  My comment wasn’t about the AP program. >
  
  So isn't their point of blocking history because of the children bla bla bla.. How many children take college ap courses most of them are probably at the age to serve in the military.  But yeah they can't make up their own minds.
  Who would have thought that a place as warm as Florida was so habitable for snowflakes. >
  
  
  college ap courses 
  
  ap is high school >
  
  AP classes are college level courses with transferable college credits that can be taken by upper level high school students. Most students taking them are 17 or 18 years old. >
  
  And AP students are generally the brightest and most academically inclined students in the high school, and the idea that such students need to have history hidden from them is an insult. >
  
  That’s the point >
  
  Most students who take ap classes are usually the type to learn things beyond their school curriculum anyways.
  (Although taking away this class is still bad) >
  
  Again, the point is to make knowledge an evil unto itself. >
  
  Maybe they can make a new class: AP Fascism In America, Contemporary Themes >
  
  So tell me if you ban only 1 AP class and it is African American studies tell me how this isn't racism? >
  
  The course is CRT based racism that they are trying to dispel from k-12 schools. >
  
  Please provide proof that CRT is taught in K-12. Thx. >
  
  There’s like 1 unit in the curriculum that uses a CRT book. It’s an overreaction but unfortunately it doesn’t comply with Desantis ban, which is also dumb. >
  
  You seem to have some information on this. Can I ask which book actually? >
  
  Thanks for providing an actual source and not some article. >
  
  Oh, it gets worse. Desantis outright says there's nothing to be gained from studying black history and that indigenous Americans have no culture
  Edit: Gotta love the schmucks who refuse to recognize dog whistles and defend of a racist POS >
  
  that's insane. happen to have any links for me? I can't find any quotes resembling that. >
  
  I'm not denying he might've said it, but I did not see in your article where Desantis claims "indigenous people have no culture". Do you have a link to where he said that? Or can you point to where I missed where he said it in your article, please? >
  
  Wow, thats blatant misinformation. This is what conservatives see to use against us >
  
  It's not misinformation. It's called piecing together a character and recognizing dog whistles. It's literally part of the basis for creating a motive for criminals >
  
  Dont say he outright said it. Because that is not true. Its already really bad by itself and we dont need to exaggerate anything to make them look worse >
  
  This makes sense, now knowing the history of Florida. Everyone should read “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland boys, and the Dawn of a New America.” The State of Florida and it’s authorities are/were straight vile. >
  
  They should pull AP testing from the state.  You can’t let one place dictate what is a valid course or not simply because of zeitgeist politics of fear. >
  
  That would just punish the students. DeSantis wouldn't care . There's been a 40 year push to make public schools less appealing anyway >
  
  They don't like their kids learning the real history of America because it makes them uncomfortable. Yea that's the whole point, it's uncomfortable because America has done some fucked up shit in its past, and it echoes into the present. >
  
  Today's Republicans are so fragile that they are the first generation of parents that don't want their children to have better lives than themselves because it would imply they're not perfect. >
  
  I don't understand how we keep electing racists. >
  
  Ron Desantis (R)
  That letter carries them to the finish line >
  
  The De education of Florida. The damage DeSantis does today will destroy Florida's future. Companies won't move there. As Florida develops its reputation as a fascist state even tourism will dry up. And Florida will become Alabama with more beaches. >
  
  How shocking that the state with "don't say gay" Desantis is openly and overtly racist too.. >
  
  Not a very free marketplace of ideas. >
  
  Florida being run by a bunch of bigots. >
  
  This dude is dumbing down Florida real quick. And now he’s the projected favorite to dumb down the rest of the country in 2024. DeSantis is maybe more dangerous than Trump. >
  
  My impression of Florida is that that’s not going to be a very far fall down. >
  
  As an ER doctor, if Florida was a patient and said it fell from where it is now to rock bottom and hit its head, I wouldn't get a CT. >
  
  Even in blue states, schools are very afraid of GIO parent pushback on race and gender, it is stifling teachers ability to teach current events, health and history. A minority voice not just gauging for itself to be heard, but silencing all other voices. >
  
  Chilling effect is what it’s called >
  
  Yes!! >
  
  Ron DeSantis is a fucking chode. >
  
  I was racking my brain for the words to explain how unbelievably stupid this is, but you nailed it so eloquently. >
  
  Ron DeSantis is scary. >
  
  He is gonna win the 2024 gop nomination, but it will be interesting to see him on the national state. He’s not good outside his tightly control bubble his has created in Florida. 
  Most people around him acknowledge he is a fucking wonk and breathtakingly flat. He doesn’t have the aura that propelled trump to the White House. >
  
  You said it perfectly. >
  
  We already have AP white history— It’s called AP European History. I took it sophomore year of HS. I would have LOVED to have been able to take AP African American studies after AP Euro, in order to expand my perspective through comparing and contrasting what I learned from both courses. >
  
  we usually call them normal american history. all thought out high school. they always only teach “world” european history and american history. completely skip out asian, middle east, africa etc. >
  
  My AP world history class in high school focused extensively on China (especially the Han dynasty), Ottoman Empire, and the mongols. The biggest weak spot for my course would probably be pre-Columbus native Americans. >
  
  Yes! I loved AP World and we did a lot of East Asian history in particular. I feel like we spent a lot of time on the Mongol Empire but that might have just been the part I enjoyed the most. My class was pretty good on post colonial and contemporary Latin American stuff, but definitely lacking in pre conquest indigenous material. >
  
  In other news, DeSantis forcing Florida schools to only serve mayonnaise sandwiches on white bread for lunch, claiming it has all the nutrition children need... >
  
  It’s what I ate, and my daddy ate, and his daddy before him! >
  
  So I can’t decide if their main objective is to continue entrenching systematic racism or this is another step towards trying to foment civil war. >
  
  I think it is as simple as creating outrage, then presenting solutions to manufactured outrage, then winning votes. >
  
  Nope I think the short answer is appropriate here. They will create outrage and that will win votes. No solution needed. >
  
  Its absolutely racism as a white individual i wish we had a African American studies when i was in school. I am intelligent enough to not take it personally when a book points out white people did horrible things.Instead learn from it recognize t. >
  
  Desantis is a piece of shit. >
  
  
  The letter, with no name attached to it, did not cite which law the violated or what in the curriculum was objectionable. >
  
  I’m sure this will save them from sea level rise. DeSantis’ antiwoke agenda and malevolent glare will protect the state. And if worst comes to worst he can fly people to Martha’s Vineyard or somewhere inland. >
  
  Yet another pointless publicity stunt by the Ayatollah of DeSantistan. >
  
  This alone is a clear enough reason to never vote for ignorance-loving republicans like desantos. >
  
  Florida HS graduates are going to learn the same thing graduates from MS and KS learn when trying to apply to college out of state. Nothing, because no college outside of FL wants them. Later, next >
  
  Coming next: Ron DeSantis will send all high school seniors plaques that read "Don't forget: You're here forever." >
  
  I bet desantis used that mlk quote they love to use when they’re racist >
  
  It's interesting they haven't used this same logic for AP European History. Oh wait, that's mostly about white people, so it's fine, right? /s 
  (Not saying they should get rid of any of the AP courses or that there's anything wrong with AP European History.) >
  
  Florida, where IQ goes to die! >
  
  Still racing to the bottom, Florida? >
  
  Freedom from indoctrination, unless we’re indoctrinating you into Christo-fascism. Then it’s fine. >
  
  Talk about cancel culture. >
  
  I am a white Christian who believes in equality. Am ashamed of white Christian nationalists and strongly reject their false ideology. >
  
  But you're probably a real Christian who tries to live a good life and do good things, I'm very critical of religion and it's effect on society and personally it's not for me..but I respect people that are true believers.   Those fake Christians though?  No, they're a blight on humanity. >
  
  Fragile, White Florida >
  
  Dangling flaccid from the belly of the south >
  
  Fascist Floridians Prefer Pan Handle Hitler. >
  
  If slavery could be attributed to the modern democratic party, as Republicans ALWAYS imply, wouldn't they want to teach African-American studies?
  Also, how is evil slavery the fault of democrats but Robert E. Lee is a hero who's monuments shouldn't be removed?