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

[Thump553]

Zero chance this stands in court. It's immediately a violation of the first amendment. A government institution can't make people disclose information they don't want to.

True, but it blows my mind that a major figure of the GOP would even propose such anti-American nonsense, much less continue to pursue it.

 

[woolfe9998]

I would think the "survey" they are requiring is anonymous? Meaning it wouldn't be about obtaining information about individuals.

It's really about concluding that the school is too liberal therefore we need to cut funding.

 

[brycejones]

Example of acceptable diversity:

my school teaches both types of music, country and western

 

[MrSquished]

Example of acceptable diversity:

my school teaches both types of music, country and western

 

[pmv]

When you consider that the GOP considers themselves solely the party of "American values", and that their duty is to protect their version of "American values", fascism is a perfectly viable vector through which to protect those "American values" (which is mostly just white supremacy with a healthy dollop of FYGM capitalism)

"We had to destroy the values in order to save them"

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

OH My GAAAAAWD! Is government intruding on your personal life too much?!

 

[gothuevos]

I would think the "survey" they are requiring is anonymous? Meaning it wouldn't be about obtaining information about individuals.

It's really about concluding that the school is too liberal therefore we need to cut funding.

Setting aside the legality (or not) of this law, how do you make MAJOR funding decisions based on anonymous surveys that people may or may not answer truthfully??

 

[nakedfrog]

"We had to destroy the values in order to save them"

Nothing is being destroyed from their perspective, but rather being saved. Rich white people have been on top for hundreds of years, and that's the way Jesus wants it, and there's nothing more American than Jesus.

 

[woolfe9998]

OH My GAAAAAWD! Is government intruding on your personal life too much?!

Took you three pages and this was the best you could do, nitwit?

You're usually more entertaining than this.

 

[woolfe9998]

Setting aside the legality (or not) of this law, how do you make MAJOR funding decisions based on anonymous surveys that people may or may not answer truthfully??

You don't. Better yet, you don't make funding decisions based on wanting your state's schools to teach things that your political party approves of.

 

[brycejones]

Took you three pages and this was the best you could do, nitwit?

You're usually more entertaining than this.

He really isn’t more entertaining. His ceiling is very low.

 

[cytg111]

This is where it's headed.



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

Wooooow. Thats. Thats fucked. Not enough Trumpism? Cut funding.

 

[IronWing]

OH My GAAAAAWD! Is government intruding on your personal life too much?!

Fuck off, traitor.

 

[UNCjigga]

True, but it blows my mind that a major figure of the GOP would even propose such anti-American nonsense, much less continue to pursue it.

You forget that they sold out their country to Russia for Hillary’s precious emails?

 

[Meghan54]

I would think the "survey" they are requiring is anonymous? Meaning it wouldn't be about obtaining information about individuals.

It's really about concluding that the school is too liberal therefore we need to cut funding.

There is nothing in the bill that guarantees any anonymity to anyone. In fact, one of the critiques has been that the “results” of this survey will be used to promote or deny promotions…a worry not fully denied by the bill’s author.

 

[MrSquished]

You forget that they sold out their country to Russia for Hillary’s precious emails?

A lot of people underestimate how fascist a large part of America is right now. The GQP is not a fringe, it's the party

 

[trenchfoot]

A lot of people underestimate how fascist a large part of America is right now. The GQP is not a fringe, it's the party

The only feature the Repubs have to offer the nation is being an obstruction to anything that the majority of the nation wishes for itself. Their leadership does not want anything other than the power to deny the working class stiffs who are the vast majority of the nation the right to determine the direction the nation takes.

The very wealthy are scared shitless of this ever happening where they would lose control of the financial wheelhouse of the nation thus lose their ability to steer the wealth of the nation into their portfolios rather than having said wealth spread out equitably as it should. They feel it is their inalienable right to lead us the same way they lead their conglomerates or heaven forbid, lose the right to control us at the expense of their having the unrestrained ability to gather the wealth of the nation at their leisure.

 

[Vic]

OH My GAAAAAWD! Is government intruding on your personal life too much?!

All those years of concern about free speech on campus... gone in a single post.

 

[brandonbull]

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/

Sounds like the Liberals are scared because they might get a taste of their own medicine.

 

[ivwshane]

Sounds like the Liberals are scared because they might get a taste of their own medicine.

Show me any similar laws in any state. How long should we wait?

 

[UNCjigga]

Sounds like the Liberals are scared because they might get a taste of their own medicine.

Always projection. Always.

 

[ivwshane]

Always projection. Always.

Well if they project then they never have to look at themselves.

 

[trenchfoot]

Well if they project then they never have to look at themselves.

I'm thinking many Repubs project because they don't want to look at themselves and what they've devolved into and if they did, they'd have to face reality square in the face and admit to some very despicable things they've done/are doing to defeat democracy and have been in denial about it for decades.

Much easier to play the victim card and blame everyone else for the pathetic circumstances they've brought upon themselves. They need the votes from their racists, their incels, their fascists, their militants and their religious fanatics to win gerrymandered elections. That's how bad things are for them. Projecting is a knee jerk defensive reflex the Repubs have had to increasingly rely on the more they find that they're isolating themselves out of the mainstream and into the realm of the fringe.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Sounds like the Liberals are scared because they might get a taste of their own medicine.

Right, cuz conservatives have been indoctrinating their children for thousands of years. This is all about a culture war and projection

 

[ch33zw1z]

All those years of concern about free speech on campus... gone in a single post.

They can't decide which way the wind is blowing minute to minute. The bottom line has always been that conservatives aim to control thought and imagination. Deviation is attacked ruthlessly.