The Candidacy of Ron DeSantis
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Just imagine the outrage from the media if AOC said that “when elected president, I’ll serve 2 terms and I’ll destroy conservatism from America.” CNN and Fox News would have weeks of lecturing us about values and decorum. It might even be a bigger scandal than Obama’s tan suit!
The asymmetrical polarization that Repubs benefit from in this country is insane.
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What does it mean to destroy leftism?
Get your *** handed to you by Disney?
Lead the nation in Covid death rates?
Leave your farms empty of immigrant workers?
Have the NAACP warn POC to avoid your state?
Hold a terrible press conference on Twitter spaces?
If so, then Meatball Rob is killing leftism!
Get your *** handed to you by Disney?
Lead the nation in Covid death rates?
Leave your farms empty of immigrant workers?
Have the NAACP warn POC to avoid your state?
Hold a terrible press conference on Twitter spaces?
If so, then Meatball Rob is killing leftism!
Al-O-Meter
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DeSantis is crushing Disney. There was huge win today for DeSantis. There are two cases currently, one in state court and one in Federal court. The Federal case was being proceeded over by a biased judge who HAAAAAAATES DeSantis. That biased judge was just removed from the case.
Judge Mark Walker Disqualifies Himself from Disney vs. DeSantis Lawsuit
Thursday evening, Judge Walker disqualified himself from presiding over the Disney vs. DeSantis lawsuit.
www.wdwinfo.com
Red
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Yeah, education is in fine shape in Florida. I can’t imagine DeSantis’s culture war emphasis enjoying broad national appeal.
“By now, it’s obvious that the reactionary culture warriors who want to reshape American education are inspiring a serious liberal counter-mobilization in response. Remarkably, this backlash to the backlash is gaining momentum in some of the reddest parts of the country.
A raucous school board meeting in Hernando County, Fla., on Tuesday night captured what’s striking about this new phenomenon. The scene featured teachers pointedly declaring that right-wing attacks are driving them to quit, even as parents and students forcefully stood up on their behalf, demanding a halt to the hysteria.
“I have never seen such fear from my colleagues as I have seen in the last two months,” social studies teacher Victoria Hunt told the board.
The whole affair really put the culture-war-mongers to shame. Not that they’ll see it that way; as the meeting also showed, scenes like this — with maximum rage, fear, tension and suspicion surging between parents and educators — are precisely the outcome they want….
…...Meanwhile, Alyssa Marano, a math teacher who has resigned, rejected the oft-heard charge of LGBTQ indoctrination of students. “No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” she told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”
Nearly 50 teachers are reportedly planning to resign in this school district. Lisa Masserio, president of the teachers union in Hernando County, says state laws and directives restricting educators are a key reason. She told us: “There is increased pressure and scrutiny on an already difficult job.”
At the meeting, right-wing parents and a minority of the school board amplified the usual attacks: Pornography in classrooms, indoctrination, wokeness. Watching them, it was impossible to avoid the sense that they were relishing every second of the tumult they’ve unleashed.…..
At the meeting, Shannon Rodriguez — a favorite of the right wing Moms for Liberty that led the attack on the Disney movie episode — kept robotically repeating phrases like “woke ideologies” and “woke agenda,” not even slightly disturbed by any sense of obligation to define their meaning. She proudly brandished her solidarity with boycotts of Bud Light and Disney as a badge of anti-woke heroism. Another conservative parent practically shouted, “You have awakened the entire alpha male blood of this country!”
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But the real story of the night was the response. Again and again, parents and students forcefully defended teachers. They cast the right’s attacks, the censoring of educators and the removal of books as the real threats to education.
“War on woke?” one student said pointedly. “More like war on your children’s future.”
“It’s me and my fellow students who are feeling the effects of this,” said a second student. A third said the removal of books from classrooms is what’s really “indoctrinating students.”….
…..Just as a car wreck commands attention, the ugliness of right-wing culture-warring often transfixes the news media. But another story is beckoning: Ordinary parents everywhere and their elected representatives are responding, and declaring that they’ve had enough.
www.vanityfair.com
“By now, it’s obvious that the reactionary culture warriors who want to reshape American education are inspiring a serious liberal counter-mobilization in response. Remarkably, this backlash to the backlash is gaining momentum in some of the reddest parts of the country.
A raucous school board meeting in Hernando County, Fla., on Tuesday night captured what’s striking about this new phenomenon. The scene featured teachers pointedly declaring that right-wing attacks are driving them to quit, even as parents and students forcefully stood up on their behalf, demanding a halt to the hysteria.
“I have never seen such fear from my colleagues as I have seen in the last two months,” social studies teacher Victoria Hunt told the board.
The whole affair really put the culture-war-mongers to shame. Not that they’ll see it that way; as the meeting also showed, scenes like this — with maximum rage, fear, tension and suspicion surging between parents and educators — are precisely the outcome they want….
…...Meanwhile, Alyssa Marano, a math teacher who has resigned, rejected the oft-heard charge of LGBTQ indoctrination of students. “No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” she told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”
Nearly 50 teachers are reportedly planning to resign in this school district. Lisa Masserio, president of the teachers union in Hernando County, says state laws and directives restricting educators are a key reason. She told us: “There is increased pressure and scrutiny on an already difficult job.”
At the meeting, right-wing parents and a minority of the school board amplified the usual attacks: Pornography in classrooms, indoctrination, wokeness. Watching them, it was impossible to avoid the sense that they were relishing every second of the tumult they’ve unleashed.…..
At the meeting, Shannon Rodriguez — a favorite of the right wing Moms for Liberty that led the attack on the Disney movie episode — kept robotically repeating phrases like “woke ideologies” and “woke agenda,” not even slightly disturbed by any sense of obligation to define their meaning. She proudly brandished her solidarity with boycotts of Bud Light and Disney as a badge of anti-woke heroism. Another conservative parent practically shouted, “You have awakened the entire alpha male blood of this country!”
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But the real story of the night was the response. Again and again, parents and students forcefully defended teachers. They cast the right’s attacks, the censoring of educators and the removal of books as the real threats to education.
“War on woke?” one student said pointedly. “More like war on your children’s future.”
“It’s me and my fellow students who are feeling the effects of this,” said a second student. A third said the removal of books from classrooms is what’s really “indoctrinating students.”….
…..Just as a car wreck commands attention, the ugliness of right-wing culture-warring often transfixes the news media. But another story is beckoning: Ordinary parents everywhere and their elected representatives are responding, and declaring that they’ve had enough.
“Smart People Are Falling for Stupid Lies”: How One Florida County Has Become Ground Zero for the Far Right’s Education Blitz
From board battles to book bans to “woke” audits, Republicans in Sarasota are waging a grassroots assault on “everything, everywhere, all at once,” says the county’s former school board chair.
Bucknutz
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Do you know where Hernando county is? Because if you knew, you wouldn’t have posted this. This is a few left wing teachers teaching in a very red district. You’re trying to continuously create and feed everyone a narrative which is not true. You can’t even point to any banning of educational books or removal of black history in public schools. It’s just false.
There will be 50 people leave and there will be thousands of more people moving in. Because it’s a fast growing RURAL county. It’s about 1 hr from Tampa, with no traffic. Farm land everywhere. We have about 800 customers up in this area now because of the constant growth. It will probably grow 5% in the last 2 years. It’s a very red county.
Here is a story, just last year, from the Midwest that shows teachers are quitting because of left wing policies.
Midwest teachers leaving the classroom over student behavior, left-wing politics
While the national teachers’ unions cite Republicans’ and parents’ “politicization” of the classroom as the reason for educators wanting to leave the field, Tony Kinnett with the Chalkboard Review discovered this is not what’s driving Midwestern educators out of their classrooms. Kinnett asked...
www.americanexperiment.org
Why don’t you bring up this? Maybe it’s where people live and they don’t like the state/local politics. It’s like hearing the right wing people in California bitch all the time about their state government.
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Yes, I can read, the article made that very clear:
“This county, north of Tampa, voted for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantisin 2022 by a 41-point margin. It’s where fifth-grade teacher Jenna Barbee recently enraged local enforcers of right-wing orthodoxy by showing her class “Strange World,” a Disney movie with an openly gay character. The Florida Department of Education is investigating whether she violated DeSantis’s “don’t say gay” law restricting classroom discussion of sex and gender.”
The DeSantis “war on Woke in education” is reactionary BS. It’s nothing less than the elevation of extreme ignorance. It’s part and parcel of the dumbing down of America. Right up there with Post Truth alternate realities, the Big Lie, and other asinine irrationalities swamping the West’s rational mind at this point in history. It’s DUMB, writ as large as DUMB gets….
Now, that’s how I see it. As part of a much larger movement, that seems to involve the elevation of extreme ignorance, be it rejection of scientists as “elites”, or removing an innocent poem from certain classes. I’m always looking for the bigger picture, IF I am able to discern it. And to me, that bigger picture is the explosion of irrational thought in the Western mind. If all this is something you cannot appreciate or understand, that’s not any kind of immediate problem for me, and I am not trying to convince you of anything.
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"While the national teachers’ unions cite Republicans’ and parents’ “politicization” of the classroom as the reason for educators wanting to leave the field, Tony Kinnett with the Chalkboard Review discovered this is not what’s driving Midwestern educators out of their classrooms."Do you know where Hernando county is? Because if you knew, you wouldn’t have posted this. This is a few left wing teachers teaching in a very red district. You’re trying to continuously create and feed everyone a narrative which is not true. You can’t even point to any banning of educational books or removal of black history in public schools. It’s just false.
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There will be 50 people leave and there will be thousands of more people moving in. Because it’s a fast growing RURAL county. It’s about 1 hr from Tampa, with no traffic. Farm land everywhere. We have about 800 customers up in this area now because of the constant growth. It will probably grow 5% in the last 2 years. It’s a very red county.
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Here is a story, just last year, from the Midwest that shows teachers are quitting because of left wing policies.
Midwest teachers leaving the classroom over student behavior, left-wing politics
While the national teachers’ unions cite Republicans’ and parents’ “politicization” of the classroom as the reason for educators wanting to leave the field, Tony Kinnett with the Chalkboard Review discovered this is not what’s driving Midwestern educators out of their classrooms. Kinnett asked...
Why don’t you bring up this? Maybe it’s where people live and they don’t like the state/local politics. It’s like hearing the right wing people in California bitch all the time about their state government.
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What’s a “left wing” teacher? Showing Disney is now considered left wing for RWers. The Overton window has shifted so much that anyone who isn’t in this MAGA cult is now considered “left wing.” At some pt, words need to matter. Not everyone and everything is “woke left wing woke Marxist woke leftist work socialist woke critical race theory woke grooming woke.”
What started out as a crusade to eradicate (non-existent) CRT has predictably opened up to eradicating anything RWers don’t like. Just admit that your party has no ideology or realistic ideas right now and all it has to keep its coalition together is resentment for X-boogeyman (college professors, Jews, blacks, LGBTs, basketball players, women, books, Ukraine, stores, chicken, the FBI, democracy, elections, vaccines, doctors, THE ELITES!, etc). Sadly, educators, books, and the LGBT community has proven to be helpful punching bags to those completely devoid of any decency or intelligence.
thetriad.thebulwark.com
What started out as a crusade to eradicate (non-existent) CRT has predictably opened up to eradicating anything RWers don’t like. Just admit that your party has no ideology or realistic ideas right now and all it has to keep its coalition together is resentment for X-boogeyman (college professors, Jews, blacks, LGBTs, basketball players, women, books, Ukraine, stores, chicken, the FBI, democracy, elections, vaccines, doctors, THE ELITES!, etc). Sadly, educators, books, and the LGBT community has proven to be helpful punching bags to those completely devoid of any decency or intelligence.
You Are Defined By Who You Hate
Josh Hawley exposes the inherent tensions in MAGA.
thetriad.thebulwark.com
Bucknutz
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What’s the “don’t say gay law”? Show me a law that say this?
This is your fake narrative.
Again show me where educational books are being banned? Show me where black history is being removed. It’s all fear porn. You literally have no idea what’s going on here. None.
Yes some person complained about a Disney movie that was shown. I bet there would people who complain if there was a teacher who showed a Christ movie in school…
Ark. teacher suspended for showing religious film
A teacher was suspended accused of showing a highly controversial and religious film to his class at a local school
www.13newsnow.com
Or what about just Disney movies in general, not in Florida?
More fake narratives. Isolated incidents that you try to use to make it look bigger and scarier.
You tried to trash the Florida education system, yet you didn’t know that it’s thriving. You tried to post about a poem that was banned and it didn’t get banned. Now you’re trying to push a movie narrative. Keep trying because there is nothing there.
Bucknutz
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Yes the teachers union cite republicans and parents politics. Let see what they are up to…
Teachers’ union spent 2x as much on politics compared to spending on members
The National Education Association — the country's largest teachers' union — prioritized political spending over member representational expenditures, according to its most recent annual federal LM-2 filing reported on by the Washington Examiner. Politics over members' needs The NEA spent twice...
www.americanexperiment.org
Wow… 18% to politics and ONLY 9% to “representational activities”. Out of a $374 million budget. Focused more on politics than the teachers. I bet they are pretty neutral on political donations…
Teachers Unions | OpenSecrets
OpenSecrets.org issue profile for Teachers Unions.
www.opensecrets.org
NOPE, 94% to Democrats. No wonder teachers unions blame everything on republicans and parents politics.