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context: An educated voter is a dangerous voter to the GOP. >
  
  DeSantis was a Teacher in the early 2000s and claimed the civil war wasn't about slavery. His destruction of education started a long time ago. >
  
  In the South they call it the "War of Northern Aggression". To them it's absolutely not about slavery. >
  
  Meanwhile, the president of the confederacy literally said it was about slavery. >
  
  You think Florida residents will be able to get accepted into top schools without knowing basic US history? I’m gonna guess no.   
  They may not care now, but they will at some point. >
  
  You think they need education to get accepted to top schools?
  Throw out your false ideals of standards and meritocracy. 
  We are witnesses to the return of Feudalism. >
  
  I mean really. >
  
  As a mathematician I'm waiting for the GQP to assail the wokeness of imaginary numbers. >
  
  Not bigoted enough.  Instead they will attack those fucking terrorist Arabic numerals. >
  
  This is funny.  Take my vote.  If only we could win elections with cleverness >
  
  The title of the article is weird because the author is saying how cutting African American studies can affect society in other, indirect ways, not that DeSantis has plans to cut other courses [he might (edit: he does) but it isn’t what the article is about that the title alludes to].
  Having said that, Black history IS American history. From immigrants to the indigenous to the coal miners, everyone who has ever been exploited, their history is American history. The “outlaw”, patriotic country music some of these folks like so much?  They can thank Woody Guthrie, a man who sang his love for this country because of the people in it, stood against racism, and sang songs supporting unions in their fight. He even wrote a song about how awful Trump’s dad was. 
  And a simple fact that always gets to me is this- The Voyager Golden Record, sent out into space to give some other intelligent life an idea of what life is like on earth, has a song on it called, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson. He was a black blues musician who eerily died in a way the title of the song describes. His house was burned to the ground, and he had nowhere else to go, so he lived in its remains. He got sick and hospitals wouldn’t care for him because he was black, so he died homeless in the shell of the house he once had. The song has no words, just some of his humming, and it still somehow captures the plight and melancholy we humans face in this world. Listening to it now, and knowing his story, how he died cold and alone in a world who didn’t care about him, buried in an unmarked grave until 2010, of which it’s still unknown what grave is his, only that he most likely was buried in that cemetery- just rattles me to the core. His music floats on in the emptiness of space as we fight here about whether or not stories like his should be told, his song seeking ears to hear it. Just gets to me. >
  
  
  not that DeSantis has plans to cut other courses (he might, but it isn’t what the article is about that the title alludes to)
  
  From the NYT, regarding DeSantis's education policy:
  
  On Tuesday, Governor DeSantis, a Republican, took his most aggressive swing yet at the education establishment, announcing a proposed overhaul of the state’s higher education system that would eliminate what he called “ideological conformity.” If enacted, courses in Western civilization would be mandated, diversity and equity programs would be eliminated, and the protections of tenure would be reduced.
  
  
  The New York Times - DeSantis Takes On the Education Establishment, and Builds His Brand >
  
  Thanks for the link! Definitely didn’t mean to imply that he doesn’t have other plans, but more so the content of the article focuses more on how cutting African American studies in and of itself can impact society negatively. I feel like that makes it worth the read. >
  
  Republicans are fascists. >
  
  In a twisted way its nice know they republicans have agenda out in the open now. >
  
  Wreaking havoc on public education is just a not so clever way of taking public education dollars away, and giving those dollars to private education. The fact that it lowers the education level of the public school student is a side benefit. The main goal is to fund the private schools,  keeping tuition lower, keeping more money in the pockets of the elite, upper class structure. Joe 6 pack is getting shafted, his kids staying less educated, his kids having fewer opportunities, his kids having lower scores on the standardized tests used to award scholarships, his kids having fewer sports to participate in, but, lets make it about the rich, keeping more dollars in their pockets. 
  Keep voting republican, they are looking out for the interests of joe 6 pack./s >
  
  Poor Cry Baby DeSantis >
  
  Well yeah, because it's too close for comfort to the big scary boogeyman of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, clutch your pearls! >
  
  Yes, but the Republicans main goal is a fascist dictatorship. >
  
  "[Ron DeSantis] says he has a great relationship with the Blacks, although unless the blacks are a family of white people, I bet he's Mistaken." - Seth Meyers >
  
  a population capable of critical thinking doesn't benefit them. loyalty and obeisance is all they care about. hence the incessant bleating about forcing jesus onto kids as early in life as possible >
  
  The goal isn’t to destroy public education but re-segregate it. >
  
  I mean they are already almost there.