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  Good, take it to court like the prosecutor did. Keep hammering DaSatan
context: “Listen, if there is such a thing as the woke mob in Florida, I aspire to lead it,” Dunn said.
  Meanwhile, Dunn’s statewide “Teach the Truth” tours are taking high school students to the sites of some of the worst racial violence in Florida history. His first tour in January took more than two dozen high school students from Miami and their family members to a museum that marks where Black civil rights activists Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette V.S. Moore were killed on Christmas Day in 1951 when a bomb planted under their home exploded.
  
  He will not be a victim. >
  
  
  a bomb planted under their home exploded
  
  What the actual fuck... >
  
  If you didn't know, bombings at black churches and homes was actually sadly common news in the civil rights era. 
  A lot of America's ugliness from that time is never taught in schools. History class conveniently wraps up at the victories in WW1 and 2 and how heroic the US was. They leave out Vietnam, Korea, and civil rights, the cold war, McCarthyism, all of it. 
  Read a copy of The People's History of the United States. It's a book written from the historical perspective of common folks not the wealthy white wash that you learn in k-12.  It's pretty harrowing. >
  
  We definitely learned about the bombing campaigns against black churches in my suburban Ohio school district. I remember reading Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 in English class and then having companion lessons on the Black civil rights movements in history class. Iirc, this was during middle school, I think sixth grade. >
  
  A lot of older people (including me) remember whitewashed history being taught in school.
  But my daughter is learning about what a complete asshole Columbus was, the terrorization of the natives, and so on. So I think things are changing.
  Sadly, states like Florida are trying to change them back again. >
  
  True, I'm under 30 so I'm pretty young relatively speaking, but there's a lot of people from my generation that act like we didn't learn about this stuff. We absolutely did, a lot of people just didn't pay attention. >
  
  A lot of it depends on county-level curriculum decisions, plus the teacher lottery. My high school social studies teachers were very good in this respect, but I remember in 8th grade having a teacher who was all in on "the civil war was only about states' rights!" >
  
  That's pretty disgusting when you think about that argument. It's like saying states should have had the right to decide if people can be legally owned and treated worse than animals. How can such a thing be a state right issue when it's about human beings? IDK. State rights my ass. If states can decide that then we don't really have a country at that point. >
  
  They try to spin it so that slavery and the desire for greater state autonomy just hhhhaaaaapppppeeeeennnneeeeddd to coincide. But if you asked the people of the time (like by reading primary sources), they'd say shit like this:
  
  We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel. 
  
  --Robert Hardy Smith, Alabama political and member of the provisional Confederate Congress >
  
  Shit like that is in the literal declarations of secession of most of the Confederate states. They were very up front about it. >
  
  thank you >
  
  
  DeSantis and other proponents of the law, which went into effect last summer, contend some teachers have inserted political beliefs into lessons related to race.
  
  Inserting political beliefs into lessons about race is exactly what DeSantis is doing.  He fears factual information because it doesn’t comport with his political views.
  Someone needs to ask DeSantos, in all seriousness, if he opposes teaching that the Nazis tried to systematically eliminate Jews from the world by killing millions of them (as well as other disparaged minorities) in the 1930s and 1940s? >
  
  Don't expect consistency from people who dehumanize others. >
  
  Exactly. They don’t care about facts. Try and point out that racist whitewashing of the civil war, Jim Crow and the Nazis and you’ll get excuses and claims that they’re correct repeating their lies. >
  
  Oh I know: the war wasn't over slavery/s >
  
  States rights (to own slaves)! >
  
  This ☝️ >
  
  States still own slaves. Thanks, shitty Justice system. >
  
  It’s not a bug, it’s a feature >
  
  I hope more Americans stand up to terrorists like desantis. >
  
  It makes me sick to my stomach to realize that this mans action is a heroic act of bravery in a society so racist and corrupt that he could be destroyed for it. Rebuplicans have become some monstrously inhumane motherfuckers lately. Particularly in Florida and Texas. >
  
  “Lately” >
  
  Yup conservatives have been trying to find their "rock bottom"  for decades >
  
  They're in Rock and Bottom's basement. >
  
  They're digging new basement levels, if that's the case. >
  
  Like prepper getting ready for the apocalypse >
  
  Fascism needs to be defied openly and repeatedly.  Unjust laws deserve to be broken.  This is a great example of "good trouble". >
  
  
  "Who controls the past controls the future"
  
  DeSantis likes this quote from 1984. He uses this tactic when he buries Black history and blocks it from being taught in schools. 
  It lets DeSantis whitewash the past and he can then delegitimize any grievances about past treatment coming from the Black community. >
  
  And the Florida DOE has banned that book from schools. Go figure. >
  
  DeSantis doesn’t want anybody getting a look at his playbook. >
  
  Good to see someone standing up against that Fascist bigot’s bullshit. >
  
  Fuck DeSantis. Power to Dunn. >
  
  Here's what I see as the ultimate issue with the law:
  
  The law requires lessons on race to be taught in “an objective manner,” and not “used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.”
  
  "Objective" is often confused with "centrist" in a sense. But those two words couldn't be more different. If I'm a teacher and I objectively teach about slavery, as in,  I explain the costs and benefits of slavery, it ought to persuade you to the view that slavery was incredibly wrong and that white people in America were evil for it. Same with encomienda, the trail of tears, segregation, the internment of Japanese people in WW2, etc. The objective view is that this shit was just plain wrong. If a student comes to the view, "Well, slavery was actually worth it for society," then that student's teacher fucked up.
  Furthermore, if I'm a teacher and I teach these things, and I teach that there are no lingering effects, that's just wrong. >
  
  
  that white people in America were evil
  
  And that's the issue, not everyone teaches it like that.  They don't teach it as slavery was wrong and white people at the time were evil; they carry it through to the present and teach collective guilt.  They teach thirteen year old Jimmy, who hasn't done anything at all in his life, that he is a privileged oppressor still benefiting from slavery to this day at the expense of his still oppressed minority peers for no other reason than he was born white. >
  
  I don't think any curriculum taught in k-12 indicates that white people today are literally responsible for slavery. I don't think it's wrong to teach white kids that systemic racism exists and that white people tend to have certain benefits that black people don't. >
  
  
  I don't think any curriculum taught in k-12 indicates that white people today are literally responsible for slavery.
  
  I never claimed it did? I said they are taught that white people today still benefit from slavery and thus share in its collective guilt. >
  
  White people today do still benefit from slavery and black people are still impacted negatively by it. 
  No one's teaching Jimmy that he's an oppressor for a crime he didn't commit. >
  
  Good. >
  
  Freedom is something we assume. Until someone tries to take it away. The degree to which we resist, is the degree in which we are free. >
  
  Floridaman in good trouble >
  
  First of many I hope. Educators should start holding zoom classes from out of state jurisdiction and watch DeS try to stop the internet. >
  
  I love this professor. >
  
  I honor this man, maybe finally America is taking away Florida's authoritarian regime.
  He may be arrested for teaching Black History though, and leading a "violent woke mob" when they could just be holding signs and peacefully protesting.
  I expect February to be a time of tension since it is Black History Month. >
  
  They’re lucky that woke mobs only use the first amendment as opposed to the second to combat inequality. >
  
  No such thing as "objective" accounting of events. You teach facts, and identify interpretations as perspectives. You provide youth the critical thinking skills to evaluate competing perspectives based on evidence and rationality. The writings of Angela Davis are central to understanding the perspectives of Black resistance movements at the time. If the education system is producing critical thinkers worth a damn they will identify the strengths and weaknesses of Marxism, violent resistance to majority rule, and the cyclic rise to power of ethno-religious nationalism across societies including ours. Nothing I am saying is difficult to comprehend. Desantis and his ilk are simply racists abusing their authority. In that abuse it just reinforces the necessity of direct action like that of this professor whether lawful or unlawful. >
  
  I have not heard that poem before, thank you for sharing. It’s quite poignant. >
  
  As well he, and everyone else, should. >
  
  Just a reminder, there is no low in Florida against teaching a pro-segregationists class. >
  
  Go for it, Desantis. Try and stop him. I'm sure the Federal civil rights issues won't land you in deep shit. >
  
  You haven't been paying attention to the SCOTUS recently, have you? >
  
  Florida needs to organize: removing crucial material from curricula is very strong grounds for decertification by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Losing accreditation will ensure no professors will go there, and iirc, losing accreditation will prevent those schools from playing in the more prestigious athletic conferences. Floridians may not care about quality education, but if the Noles and Gators get kicked out their conferences, the entire state will howl.
  And even if they are allowed to play, athlete students are not going to accept scholarships to receive worthless degrees. In a couple of years Florida is going to have the shitiest football teams in the country. >
  
  I love this. you have to fight back. >
  
  Good. Someone needs the create the First Amendment test case. >
  
  Im not an American but isn’t this prohibition a violation of your 1st amendment? >
  
  No more than punishing a county clerk who refuses to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple is. 
  You can't have it both ways, depending on your view of the particular issue at hand. >
  
  The country clerk was hired to process marriage licenses for people legally authorized to marry under state and federal laws.  It's not a 'punishment' to fire someone for not doing their job. >
  
  If the police in Florida have any brains they'll realize that stopping Mr. Dunn will make them look like real jack booted, pieces of shit and if they have any decency they'll actually care about it. >
  
  The bastards in blue don’t give any fucks about looking jackbooted. It is literally their identity IK addition to their job. >
  
  Patriot >
  
  We should not have to still be having this fight. >
  
  Funny how they claim to live “free speech” so much yet write literal laws against it >
  
  Freedom for them has always meant the freedom to curtail the freedom of others.
  After all.. if you can't be in charge and tell other people what to do, how to think, and what is even real, are you truly free? >
  
  
  The law requires lessons on race to be taught in “an objective manner,” and not “used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.” It also says students should not be made to “feel guilt” because of actions committed by others in the past.
  
  white·wash
  /ˈ(h)wītˌwôSH,ˈ(h)wītˌwäSH/
  
  a deliberate concealment of someone's mistakes or faults in order to clear their name.
  "The GOP is constantly trying to whitewash history." >
  
  DeSantis is a fucking chode. >
  
  Good! I hope DeSantis publicly goes after this guy. That's a battle of perception he'll lose. >
  
  I am afraid that you underrated the majority of Florida people. Those will stand behind DeSantis no matter what he does. >
  
  Yep they went after Rebekah Jones after she told the truth about Florida Covid numbers being faked. However Florida investigated itself and found it did nothing wrong but Rebekah’s home was raided and she was charged with using the information network illegally. The raid video is out there. SWAT pointing guns at her family including her kids. She ran against pedo Matt Gaetz and still lost. Floridians love this shit. They’re “owning the libs” and “fighting woke” all day. These people are trash. I’m speaking as a Floridain. There’s a trailer down the road a piece, not even a mile from an elementary school. There’s about 15 flags flying including “Fuck Biden” and “Blue lives matter” and “trump 2024”. >
  
  "Told the truth"
  Uh huh, and that proof is where again?
  The ability of the majority of this sub to believe literally anything that matches up with what they want is absolutely depressing. >
  
  Keep lickin that desantis butthole. We both know there’s no “official” source that you will be happy with. Florida says one thing officially. You just have to be the kind of person that doesn’t believe everything you’re spoon fed by a lying fascist Florida government. You’ve been told what you should believe. That’s all there is for you. Your pseudo intellectual history already tells me I don’t need to bother trying to convince you of anything. You’re already reasoned yourself to where you want to be. Anything else is wrong because it can’t be backed up with some official source. >
  
  I'll take any source that has real proof. Any at all.
  Edit: or even a corroborating person, come on Emily, you can do it! >
  
  This is designed to go to the Supreme Court.  DeSantis can let it go and look a fool or take a chance on losing this at the SCOTUS.  There’s no guarantee that they’ll rule in DeSantis’s favor.