Florida students required to register political views with the state to promote ‘intellectual diversity’

[KMFJD]

Florida students to be surveyed for 'intellectual diversity'

UPDATE: A previous version of this story made the claim that Florida's college students would be required to register their political views with the state. This is incorrect, as Politifact notes: The law requires an annual assessment of “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” at public...

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Floriduh, the beacon of small government

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation requiring students, faculty and staff at Florida's public universities and colleges to register their political views with the state as a way to encourage "intellectual diversity."
The state will require taxpayer-funded colleges and universities to issue surveys to determine "the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented" on campus and whether students, faculty and staff "feel free to express [their] beliefs and viewpoints," although it's not clear what will be done with the poll results, reported the Tampa Bay Times.

 

[Leeea]

Full Evil.


Historical luminaries like Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler* all implemented similar systems. We have a well established historical precedence for how this ends.


*https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...parisons-dont-break-his-famous-internet-rule/

 

[nakedfrog]

Guess it's easier to have a cleansing when you know who the "bad guys" are?

 

[K1052]

More Republicans for small government at work.

 

[interchange]

How long before this ends up in SCOTUS?

 

[hal2kilo]

Florida students to be surveyed for 'intellectual diversity'

UPDATE: A previous version of this story made the claim that Florida's college students would be required to register their political views with the state. This is incorrect, as Politifact notes: The law requires an annual assessment of “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” at public...

www.rawstory.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1407693537504808963

Floriduh, the beacon of small government

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation requiring students, faculty and staff at Florida's public universities and colleges to register their political views with the state as a way to encourage "intellectual diversity."
The state will require taxpayer-funded colleges and universities to issue surveys to determine "the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented" on campus and whether students, faculty and staff "feel free to express [their] beliefs and viewpoints," although it's not clear what will be done with the poll results, reported the Tampa Bay Times.

That's what I call freedumb.

 

[weblooker2021]

SCOTUS will have a say about this if it gets that far. I expect lawsuit to be filed soon.

 

[woolfe9998]

This is where it's headed.

DeSantis and the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Ray Rodrigues (R-Estero), suggested funding could be cut as punishment for colleges and universities found to be "indoctrinating" students under the measure, which goes into effect July 1.

This is an all out culture war we're in.

 

[Fenixgoon]

I'm (free) speechless

 

[purbeast0]

What happens if you have no political views?

 

[brycejones]

More Republicans for fascism at work.

FTFY

 

[ivwshane]

Tell me this is an onion story. There is no fucking way republicans would support something like this.


I expect our resident righties to chime in on this and be totally against it. Any minute now…

 

[sdifox]

Soon they'll be wearing brown shirts and chanting sieg heil

 

[K1052]

Soon they'll be wearing brown shirts and chanting sieg heil

evergreen:

 

[nakedfrog]

What happens if you have no political views?

Probably a lying liberal then.

 

[weblooker2021]

Tell me this is an onion story. There is no fucking way republicans would support something like this.


I expect our resident righties to chime in on this and be totally against it. Any minute now…

I am Republican and 100% against this.

 

[KMFJD]

sigh-

DeSantis also signed a law prohibiting university and college officials from limiting campus speech that "may be uncomfortable, disagreeable or offensive," and will allow students to record lectures without consent that may be used as evidence in a civil or criminal case against educational institutions.

not gonna bite them in the ass at all is it?

 

[BoomerD]

What happens if you have no political views?

Or...what happens if you lie in the survey?

 

[pauldun170]

I guess this is it

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/233/BillText/er/PDF

 

[JD50]

Tell me this is an onion story. There is no fucking way republicans would support something like this.


I expect our resident righties to chime in on this and be totally against it. Any minute now…

Doesn't really matter, they'll still vote R.

 

[soulcougher73]

Tell me this is an onion story. There is no fucking way republicans would support something like this.


I expect our resident righties to chime in on this and be totally against it. Any minute now…

I think Republicans have rebranded themselves. No longer the small government, personal responsibility, etc brand. Traditional Republican's should really think about not supporting the new fascist Republican party.

 

[K1052]

Or...what happens if you lie in the survey?

What happens to the info collected is not very clear per what I have read, which is one of the big problems. Like are they going to cut your college's funding if it is not sufficiently conservative or does the local GOP show up at your house for a re-education seminar.

 

[nakedfrog]

I think Republicans have rebranded themselves. No longer the small government, personal responsibility, etc brand. Traditional Republican's should really think about not supporting the new fascist Republican party.

But the only real alternative is to vote for... d-d-d-d-d-democrats
I mean, yeah, I guess they could try voting for non-fascist R candidates in primaries, but I don't like their odds.

 

[Saylick]

Inb4 Florida mandates restroom genital checkers who are mandated by law to put their hands down your pants to make sure you have the "right" equipment before letting you entering your preferred gender-labeled restroom. You know, to "encourage gender diversity" of course.

 

[Ajay]

sigh-

DeSantis also signed a law prohibiting university and college officials from limiting campus speech that "may be uncomfortable, disagreeable or offensive," and will allow students to record lectures without consent that may be used as evidence in a civil or criminal case against educational institutions.

not gonna bite them in the ass at all is it?

Wait, wut?! Kids need permission to record lectures nowadays?