This is from Florida’s education commissioner, depressingly. Reflect for a moment on the incredible degree of intellectual insecurity it reveals.
People who are confident in the quality of their own arguments do not exhibit this terror of exposing students to thinkers they disagree with.
@normative Reminds me of how during the Cold War, it turns out the people who thought capitalism was so superior to communism that it needed to be defended via foreign wars didn't realize it was so much more superior than they thought to the point that it would win out regardless
@mcewen @normative I had the same thought, and remembered the civics class we had to take to graduate high school in Florida