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It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where youd be exposed to a lot of different ideas, DeSantis said during a bill signing ceremony. Unfortunately, now the norm is, these are more intellectually repressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed.
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"Oh, so you mean like in sociology; you have functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory; and now they're only teaching one of those things and not even talking about the other two at all?"
"No, not like that."
"Oh! So in studies of evolution, you mean they're only teaching gradualism OR punctuated equilibrium and not having discussions of both, while they both have merit?"
"Uh... no, we're not talking about that."
"OH! You mean they're stifling the "is the universe explained by quantum mechanics or general relativity" debate in physics and have come down on the side of one and are refusing to talk about the other at all? Those jerks!"
"... no, no."
"OK, so in the college restrooms, they have now cruelly decided to put all the toilet paper under instead of over? Those totalitarians!"
"No!"
"Oh... so by 'different ideas', you mean...
Andrew Torba declares that any future political solution that doesnt involve repealing (the 19th Amendment) is futile. Prepare for pain like this country has never seen before."
Andrew Anglin asserts that the entire structure of the Western world is based around a compulsive desire of men to please women. The Taliban is a good model for healthy masculinity that Western men should emulate.
Finally, Lance Wallnau passionately prays that God will raise up one more bad boy billionaire to join Elon Musk and Donald Trump in saving America, then asks God to have Trump experience a Pentecostal encounter thatll make him supernaturally sanctified.
... right?"
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-emulate-the-taliban/
lapfog_1
(29,227 posts)in Geography we should teach both a globe and flat earth theory.
In Geology we should show that the earth is only 6000 years old, not 4.3 billion years old.
Is Social Studies we should teach that America is divinely instituted by God rather than a product of enlightenism.
In political science we should teach Ayn Rand and have alternate views of Hitler and Mussolini.
In Ecology we should teach both ecological damage done by mankind AND teach dominion-ism by which mankind can do whatever it wants with all of god's creation.
republianmushroom
(13,722 posts)DeSantis is playing to the republican. DeSantis can sit on it as fr as I'm concern.
I like diversity my self and we as a nation need id. What is he afraid of ?