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Wait until students figure out that DeSantis’ Florida and communism are bedfellows! | Opinion
Miami Herald ^ | May 11, 2022 | Fabiola Santiago

Posted on 05/11/2022 9:41:51 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

What do Cuba and Florida have in common?

Book-banning, censorship — and, added into the mix this week, state-mandated school indoctrination for political purposes.

They’re hallmark practices of the Communist Party-led regime in Cuba, tools used for six decades to keep Cubans isolated and in the dark about information that falls outside of what the ruling party’s ideology commands people to believe.

Ironically, after this year’s GOP-dominated legislative session, the same manipulative tactics are now pillars of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ public education system.

Math textbooks and literary books are being banned because some comité a la Cuba — aka “Moms for Liberty,” made up of citizens jazzed and empowered by Republicans into a state of hysteria — deemed them inappropriate and sounded the alarm.

Educators are being censored and handed guidelines, embedded into law, about what they’re allowed to say and not say to students on race or gender identity. Nothing that makes whites uncomfortable. Nothing about being gay or trans in kindergarten to third grade when kids are full of questions about fellow classmates or themselves.....

Public school teachers in Florida will be required to dedicate at least 45 minutes of instruction that day to Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro. As well as to the “poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence and suppression of speech” that people endured under their regimes.

Yet, these same students can’t be taught about the “poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence and suppression of speech” to which Blacks have been — and still are — subjected to in this country.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commmunism; communism; desantis; fabiolasantiago; fakenews; florida; newsforumabuse; schoolbooks; smokybackroomforum
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Nor can students be taught about the dangers of abortion, risk of covid vax, greatness of the USA, etc.
1 posted on 05/11/2022 9:41:51 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The article is bullshit.


2 posted on 05/11/2022 9:44:29 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Too little, too late. Get your kids out of the communist day care centers, aka public schools!


3 posted on 05/11/2022 9:46:01 PM PDT by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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What do Cuba and Florida have in common? Book-banning, censorship — and, added into the mix this week, state-mandated school indoctrination for political purposes.

Uh.... you just described the modern Democrat party!

4 posted on 05/11/2022 9:46:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The monkeys are on their typewriters again.


5 posted on 05/11/2022 9:55:37 PM PDT by Trillian
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Fla. commies have their panties in a bunch due to reversal of their policies?

[Commies are always projecting...]


6 posted on 05/11/2022 9:56:28 PM PDT by Paladin2
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What a feckin crock. Paper not even suitable to line my parrot’s cage bottom with….


7 posted on 05/11/2022 10:09:25 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: Jamestown1630

You are being too kind.


8 posted on 05/11/2022 10:09:36 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Fidel’s love child?


9 posted on 05/11/2022 10:10:22 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Trillian

No Shakespeare there. Whoever hit these geniuses in the head stopped too soon with the hammer.


10 posted on 05/11/2022 10:11:12 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This author is nuts.

What kind of a nut jumps to this stupid conclusion.


11 posted on 05/11/2022 10:11:41 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Jamestown1630
The article is bullshit.

A veritable continent of it. (That’s a lot😀)

12 posted on 05/11/2022 10:16:42 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Opinions are like butt holes. Everyone has one.


13 posted on 05/11/2022 10:29:42 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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They can’t teach kids about mutilating their genitals in kindergarten, or how whitey is to blame and they even learn that communists end up killing people! Oh woe and sadness lol.


14 posted on 05/11/2022 10:33:54 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: Jamestown1630

If DeSantis is a Communist, I am joining the party!
How stupid. Anyone who believes this cannot have an IQ above 75.


15 posted on 05/11/2022 10:34:53 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Au contraire. Florida hasn’t insisted on political indoctrination in schools. It has stopped political indoctrination in schools.

This Leftist is obviously upset about it.


16 posted on 05/11/2022 10:44:30 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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Nor can students be taught about the dangers of abortion, risk of covid vax, greatness of the USA, etc.

The etc includes the social media site TikTok with pix of scantily dressed women that men with young children lust after.
17 posted on 05/11/2022 10:49:11 PM PDT by jy8z
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So, where does De Santis imprison journalists that criticize him? How about all those booksellers that sell opposition books? And all those lawyers that opposed him must be breaking rocks on a chain gang by now.

Oh, and if you’re black in Cuba, good luck with being in a position of power. Fidel and Che made that plain.


18 posted on 05/11/2022 11:00:31 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Maris Crane

11. Sounds like “disinformatzia” to me. Old Alinsky technique. Claim your enemies use facist/communist tactics to deflect a close scrutiny of those MARXIST ones you are using.c.f.


19 posted on 05/11/2022 11:03:11 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: alstewartfan

Democrats own the 75 and below IQ demographic


20 posted on 05/11/2022 11:04:30 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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