Ron DeSantis government bans new advanced African American history course

[BritManToo]

13 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Oh look ‘Cancel Culture’, and from a darling of the Rightwing.

I think he's right to ban Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice or African studies.

[Jingthing]

12 minutes ago, Trippy said:

Summary of politics in 2023:

 

If you don't think like me, I Hate you.  I'm always right, and you're always wrong. 

 

The end.

The sides are NOT equivalent.

Nobody is trying to ERASE the history of white straight people or make white straight people INVISIBLE. 

 

The fascist politics that DeSantis is running with is basically a next step after Trump's politics of white resentment, white nationalism, or worse.

[BritManToo]

11 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Good, enough BS time wasted on special interest group agendas.   Where's the Native American studies, the English, Irish, German, Dutch, Italian studies ?

Wouldn't Cuban or Mexican studies be more appropriate to the location.

[Trippy]

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The sides are NOT equivalent.

Nobody is trying to ERASE the history of white straight people or make white straight people INVISIBLE. 

 

The fascist politics that DeSantis is running with is basically a next step after Trump's politics of white resentment, white nationalism, or worse.

Your always right, I'm always wrong. Thanks for proving my point. 

[Jingthing]

Just now, Trippy said:

Your always right, I'm always wrong. Thanks for proving my point. 

Hardly. 

[KhunLA]

19 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Wouldn't Cuban or Mexican studies be more appropriate to the location.

They make a damn tasty sandwich, FL's Cubans anyway (the Cuban ????????), right up there with Philly Hoagies.

 

And our fine friends from South of the border, certainly know how to stuff tortillas.

[BritManToo]

35 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Wouldn't Cuban or Mexican studies be more appropriate to the location.

Considering 13% of the US population is black and 19% is Latino (27% Latino in Florida).

Why must everything be about black people, do Hispanics have no worth?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Florida

"According to the 2020 census, the racial distributions are as follows; 51.5% Non-Hispanic White, 26.6% of the population are Hispanics or Latino (of any race), 14.5% African American, 4% Native American, and 2.3% Asian, Oriental and other."

[ozimoron]

8 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Considering 13% of the US population is black and 19% is Latino (27% Latino in Florida).

Why must everything be about black people, do Hispanics have no worth?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Florida

"According to the 2020 census, the racial distributions are as follows; 51.5% Non-Hispanic White, 26.6% of the population are Hispanics or Latino (of any race), 14.5% African American, 4% Native American, and 2.3% Asian, Oriental and other."

So you advocate having nothing about black people? They are more intrinsically tied to American history despite being less numerous than Latinos. And that's the whole point. The history of systemic racism in the US must be taught if there's to be any reconciliation.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

I think he's right to ban Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice or African studies.

I’m sure you think a lot of things, many based on facts, however ‘Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice or African studies’ is not one of your fact based thoughts.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

22 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Considering 13% of the US population is black and 19% is Latino (27% Latino in Florida).

Why must everything be about black people, do Hispanics have no worth?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Florida

"According to the 2020 census, the racial distributions are as follows; 51.5% Non-Hispanic White, 26.6% of the population are Hispanics or Latino (of any race), 14.5% African American, 4% Native American, and 2.3% Asian, Oriental and other."

OK say you’ve found out some statistics.

 

So what’s your aversion to some history?

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, Trippy said:

Summary of politics in 2023:

 

If you don't think like me, I Hate you.  I'm always right, and you're always wrong. 

 

The end.

That’s a perfect example of ‘resentment politics’ thanks for sharing.

[CharlieKo]

6 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

On the other hand, at least he is not coming up with mad policies to pay EVERY black person $500,000 or whatever for historic 'slave' issues like the mad insane idiots in California !

5,000,000.00 each!

[CharlieKo]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

The reactionary "anti wokes" that rail against CRT almost never can actually define CRT if you ask them directly. 

some might say CRT is racist! 

[BusyB]

15 hours ago, Jingthing said:

From Don't Say Gay to Don't Say Black. It's disgusting that this neo fascist populist demagogue is so popular. Yeah he would be better than Trump but that's like saying eating liverwurst is better than eating cockroaches. 

 

This charlatan doesn't care about solving real problems for Floridians like the housing crisis. It's all about his divisive culture war garbage in his attempt to propel him to the presidency. Will Americans be fooled again? 

 

 

If Trump could fool 'em ... who knows?

[ozimoron]

5 minutes ago, CharlieKo said:

some might say CRT is racist! 

Only racists would say that. It's plain old history.

[Jingthing]

7 minutes ago, CharlieKo said:

some might say CRT is racist! 

"Some" that couldn't actually DEFINE CRT to save their life.

[Jingthing]

4 minutes ago, BusyB said:

If Trump could fool 'em ... who knows?

Yes, he's worrisome. 

[Chomper Higgot]

8 minutes ago, CharlieKo said:

some might say CRT is racist! 

Especially if that’s what they’ve been told.

[BusyB]

7 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

On the other hand, at least he is not coming up with mad policies to pay EVERY black person $500,000 or whatever for historic 'slave' issues like the mad insane idiots in California !

Do you think that is likely to happen? Sounds very un-likely to me.

 

But the story sure triggered a lot of people right?

 

And that's what it's all about with people like Dosser Santos ... a tried and tested recipe: stir up enough hate, trigger the oiks, and tell big enough lies for long enough. And you know what? ... the oiks never ever learn.

[BusyB]

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Yes, he's worrisome. 

He's basically what every decent person feared - a more cunning and intelligent version of Trump with the same mindset, policies and direction.

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, BusyB said:

He's basically what every decent person feared - a more cunning and intelligent version of Trump with the same mindset, policies and direction.

We don't know what his actual mindset is but we do know that he's prepared to speak to the lowest common denominator for political advantage. Just like Trump.

[BritManToo]

6 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

but we do know that he's prepared to speak to the lowest common denominator for political advantage.

That's how politicians win elections.

If only we could prevent the common man voting the world would be a perfect place.

[BusyB]

6 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

We don't know what his actual mindset is but we do know that he's prepared to speak to the lowest common denominator for political advantage. Just like Trump.

All indications are that whatever it is it ain't pleasant.

[ozimoron]

Just now, BritManToo said:

That's how politicians win elections.

No, Trump was the first US politician to stoop that low. Even the Bush family hate him.

[CharlieKo]

16 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

That's how politicians win elections.

If only we could prevent the common man voting the world would be a perfect place.

Churchill was right!   

 

“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

[Chomper Higgot]

18 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

That's how politicians win elections.

If only we could prevent the common man voting the world would be a perfect place.

You assume the ‘lowest common denominator’ resides with ‘the common man’, which is precisely the low opinion the rightwing elite have of working people.

 

Meanwhile, the facts on preventing ‘the common man voting’ are clear, vote suppression is a well and widely practiced policy of the GOP.

 

[BritManToo]

18 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You assume the ‘lowest common denominator’ resides with ‘the common man’, which is precisely the low opinion the rightwing elite have of working people.

Who do you think the 'lowest common denominator' is?

 

If it were up to me no wealthy people (or people with wealthy families) should be allowed to run for public office. Even going to a private school should exclude a candidate from running for office. They only represent themselves and live entirely separate lives to the 'common people'.

[ozimoron]

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Who do you think the 'lowest common denominator' is?

I'll give you a hint: It isn't a person or people.

 

The expression "lowest common denominator" is used to describe (usually in a disapproving manner) a rule, proposal, opinion, or media that is deliberately simplified so as to appeal to the largest possible number of people.

[BritManToo]

2 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

I'll give you a hint: It isn't a person or people.

 

The expression "lowest common denominator" is used to describe (usually in a disapproving manner) a rule, proposal, opinion, or media that is deliberately simplified so as to appeal to the largest possible number of people.

I'll give you a hint, you should be arguing with Chomper on this point.

[ozimoron]

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'll give you a hint, you should be arguing with Chomper on this point.

I think he already knows what it meant. You didn't since you asked who it was.