Board of education replaces course at 12 public universities with own US history curriculum, in latest ‘anti-woke’ attack

Board of education replaces course at 12 public universities with own US history curriculum, in latest ‘anti-woke’ attack

Educators are warning that college enrollment in Florida will plummet after the state removed sociology as a core class from campuses in the latest round of Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke ideology”.

The Republican governor’s hand-picked board of education voted on Wednesday to replace the established course on the principles of sociology at its 12 public universities with its own US history curriculum, incorporating an “historically accurate account of America’s founding [and] the horrors of slavery”.

The board faced a backlash last summer for requiring public schools to teach that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved Black people because it taught them useful skills.

The removal as a required core course of sociology classes, which Florida education commissioner and staunch DeSantis acolyte Manny Díaz insisted without evidence had “been hijacked by leftwing activists”, follows several other recent “anti-woke” moves in education in Florida.

  • spider@lemmy.nz
    812·
    9 months ago

    ignorant conservatives

    If you’re referring to today’s definition of “conservative”, that’s redundant.

    • Evkob@lemmy.ca
      641·
      9 months ago

      When was conservatism not ignorant? Certainly not in my lifetime. It’s been an ideology of anti-intellectualism for at least three decades now.

      • spider@lemmy.nz
        39·
        9 months ago

        True, but now it’s off the rails.

        Edit:

        Margaret Goldwater advocated for birth control and reproductive rights in the United States during the twentieth century. Goldwater was a socialite and philanthropist and was married to Barry Goldwater, US Senator from Arizona. She spent much of her life working to further the women’s reproductive rights movement, which sought to expand women’s legal, social, and physical access to reproductive healthcare, including contraception and abortions.

        source

        Barry Goldwater was considered the father of the modern conservative movement; his wife’s work would likely result in his excommunication from today’s Republican Party.

        • otp@sh.itjust.works
          163·
          9 months ago

          I feel like Conservatism USED to be “How can we save money and prepare for a better financial future as a country/state/etc.?”…

          It kind of moved along the lines of “How can we stop financially supporting things and people that are different to us?”

          Now, the financial part is just an excuse.

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            9 months ago

            I feel like Conservatism USED to be “How can we save money and prepare for a better financial future as a country/state/etc.?”…

            No, that’s always been nothing more than a lie conservatives tell to try to excuse their abhorrent policies.

            What conservatism really used to be was defending the monarchy, and it still is. I was going to say “…and the only thing that’s changed is that they no longer try to use ‘divine right’ as a justification and prefer a different title for the autocrat in charge,” but nope!

          • spider@lemmy.nz
            3·
            9 months ago

            Now, the financial part is just an excuse.

            It’s just lip service; they’re quick to waste taxpayer dollars on lawsuits, migrant flights to blue states, etc.

      • cygnus@lemmy.ca
        14·
        9 months ago

        It’s been an ideology of anti-intellectualism for at least three decades now.

        30 years is maybe pushi… Oh wait, that’s only 1994. Yeah, you’re right.

      • _NoName_
        1·
        9 months ago

        The Luddite movement was conservative. The Luddite movement was also exactly right about where work automation would lead.

        I’d also argue anti-colonialist guerrillas are usually trying to conserve their way of life, making them conservative.

        Sometimes conservatism can be pretty based.