Posted on 11/20/2022 9:13:13 AM PST by John Semmens
This week Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker blocked enforcement of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” saying that “it infringes on the right of university professors to exercise their freedom of speech in their classrooms.” Walker declared that “professors are the priests of our democracy. The enemies of our democracy cannot be permitted to interfere with their efforts to convert students to the correct way of thinking about our history and our society.”
Bryan Griffin, press secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis asserted that “the Stop WOKE Act protects the open exchange of ideas by prohibiting teachers who hold agency over others from forcing discriminatory concepts on students as part of classroom instruction. Take Critical Race Theory, for example. This doctrine teaches that a person is inherently racist or sexist whether consciously or unconsciously due to his race or sex, that a person bears personal responsibility for and must feel guilt for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, and that virtues like hard work, fairness, objectivity, and racial colorblindness are racist. This perspective is controversial. It cannot be made the basis for grading decisions.”
Bertram Petty of the ACLU praised Walker’s decision, calling the Stop WOKE Act “as clear a violation of academic freedom as we’ve ever seen. An educator’s right to teach whatever he or she wants and to hold students accountable for learning the lessons intended out-weighs the students’ complaint of indoctrination. The professor is more highly educated than the comparatively ignorant student. Students who wish to preserve their ignorance are free to choose another instructor or attend another school.”
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The expensive to attend so-called college classrooms are where people go to learn, not soapboxes for Marxist professors to vomit their communist hate! The taxpayers are now paying for the retards to listen to that vomit. That has to stop.
Profs are most destructive to democracy.
Lol
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