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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(129,764 posts)
Tue May 10, 2022, 07:44 PM May 2022

Wait until students figure out that DeSantis' Florida and communism are bedfellows!

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.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wait-until-students-figure-desantis-215301575.html

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Wait until students figure out that DeSantis' Florida and communism are bedfellows! (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2022 OP
This Herald opinion piece is a must read. sop May 2022 #1
But "Victims of Capitalism Day" is banned as CRT. Marcuse May 2022 #2

sop

(16,450 posts)
1. This Herald opinion piece is a must read.
Tue May 10, 2022, 07:57 PM
May 2022

"DeSantis and the Florida Legislature have mandated, starting with the 2023 school year, that Florida’s middle-school students get an earful about the horrors of communism every Nov. 7, declared 'Victims of Communism Day.'”

"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."

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