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Julian SanchezThis 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.
Also, FFS, if you do not even understand what “intersectionality” means, perhaps you should be taking the class rather than demanding it be banned.
Icevice@normative The only source on Intersectionality any conservative pundit ever needed is that video from Ben Shapiro. They all literally just quote Ben everytime they mention Intersectionality
John SheehanMy own rule is to never mention Ben Shapiro without adding the descriptive, "execreble." But hey, that's just me. 😎
Sujal Shah@normative I mean, you know he doesn’t actually care what the words mean, right?
The Febrile Muse@normative Do they just fantasize that it sounds "dirty?"
Creative! Queer!! Autistic!!!
BrewingContemplations@normative yes, this exactly
Voron@normative Oh I would bet they understand, they just don’t give a f&$k. They stawman, redefine and demonize.
Chris@normative This sort of re-definition is a direct response to the use of intersectionality as a defense of Critical Race Theory. When defending Critical Race Theory I often invoke intersectionality as a way to demonstrate the unfairness of its demonization.
By redefining intersectionality like this they create a false familiarity among those we seek to build understanding with.
David Weinberger@normative Well, I for one am glad to have learned that intersectionality is a ranking scale. Now everything makes sense! /s
Andrew Hinton@normative @dweinberger as a kid, the most scary scenarios I remember seeing on tv in movies/shows was inquisition-like scenes where ignorant & hateful people in power didn’t care to understand a defendant, only use them as a pawn in a power play … it’s so disturbing to realize how much of this has existed still in our society and has been further weaponized lately
Patrick McEwen@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
Gminks@mcewen @normative I had the same thought, and remembered the civics class we had to take to graduate high school in Florida
Adam Vallee 🇨🇦🏳️🌈@normative I still have trouble understanding how it is that I live in the same world as these people.
eye0ftheworld@av @normative you been to Florida?
Yaktuary@normative This is just a list of books, authors and writings that they don't like and they're declaring them banned just... because they can
Mike Parsons@normative nevermind actually engaging with the source material, they couldn’t even muster the basic respect to type bell hooks’ name correctly.
Ryan Egesdahl 
@normative @mmasnick “My ‘I don’t understand Ethnic Studies, but I’m not a racist’ shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt.”
TC Won't Give In To Lies@normative
Intersectionality "ranks people"??!
What planet are these people from? Oh, Florida.
Michael Gouker ✅@normative The state trembling at the temerity of some of the bravest writers is another sign that yes (duh) the pen is mighty and remembers for eternity AND the government of the status quo should worry. I love Angela Davis. Sigh
costrike@normative Do they realize how sad their outlook is and not care or do they not even see it?
Allen B. Skye@normative Racists sure get upset when the negroes get uppity.
Helchose@normative Oh no, intersectionality might induce students to think beyond their little insular social bubble and consider the rights of other types of people? THE HORROR
Southern Leftist@Helchose @normative
Literally Nazi Germany.
Like, PUT THE STATE OF FLORIDA ON A GENOCIDE WATCHLIST ALREADY.
THEY'LL KILL ANY MINORITY THEY EVEN THINK ABOUT IF FEDERAL LAW WASN'T INTERVENING.
jsj@normative All Florida is doing is lessening the value of an education earned in FL. A couple generations of this and FL will just be the epicenter of the uneducated, difficult to employ and useless on the job.
keith@normative Maybe a course on "Florida Man" is in order, though it seems introspection is the enemy here.
Louis Cyphre@normative SACS should take their accreditation away. No more federal funding.
JR@normative DeSantis’s destiny is to become Florida Man.
Doug 🇨🇦🌈
Joan of Contention 😷Florida's education commissioner is a literal Nazi.
JBVPoet@normative FL is about to experience a brain drain, if that’s possible. Teachers will leave. Families that want their kids educated to do more than clean hotels and lifeguard at beaches will leave. Corporations will try to transfer talent to offices there and get push-back. FL is so openly racist and LGBTQ, I don’t see how multi-state corporations can ask BIPOC or LGBTQ employees to transfer there.
@GabiPoet @normative
What do you mean by "and LGBTQ."?
And yes, the state of Florida will become the next rip van winkle state.
North Carolina was left behind in the cracker-ass roaring 20s, so I don't see why Florida will be abandoned by our educational revolution.
@south_lib @normative bad typo and I didn’t see it until I sent it. Should have said “and anti-LGBTQ?” Big mistake and I’m very sorry.
Rybaby@normative damn AP African American studies is based
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Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@normative ~"We're gonna do you kids a favor and push you into the deep end of the ignorance jacuzzi."~
Hyoun Park@normative you know what really ranks people? Counting and addition.
Ban math, the real enemy!
But also, colleges are going to have to start having to figure out how to evaluate Florida students based on their reduced access to current education standards.
Allen Shull 
@normative The canary for me is “continu-ally.” That’s the level we’re dealing with.
Let’s own it. I want to be a “continu-ally”!
Patioboater@normative It does accomplish one thing. It makes me want to take the AP African American Studies course.
Katy@patioboater @normative me, too. Might pull up the syllabus etc and see what I can obtain. I'm not in the US anymore so a lot of the books might be a bit rare at the library.
But I also want to mention for any kids who are still highschool age, *it is possible to sit AP exams without taking an AP course* so FL deciding not to offer it does not entirely prevent access, but it is way harder and often costly (paying for materials, the test, travel for the test) when there's no state support.
pazuly@normative sounds like a great freaking class!
David P@normative "Florida Department of Re-Education"
Dan Tagliarina@normative this is all terrible, and while this is a small thing in light of everything else, they didn't even bother to get bell hooks's name right
Corey Rayburn Yung@normative saying that intersectionality "ranks people" is so unbelievably dishonest.
Daniel Naujoks@normative this is so I credibly sad and infuriating