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So what’s happening in Florida today?

More bans!

https://twitter.com/monitoringbias/status/1635005380601470977?s=20

As the poster writes:

“any major or minor that… utilizes pedagogical methodology associated with Critical Theory” This would theoretically include: — Gender and African-American and other “studies” disciplines — Literature — Sociology — History — Anthropolgy — Political science And other majors.

The comments are interesting. Most of them are in favor and excuse the authoritarian overreach by saying that it’s all fine because it doesn’t ban private colleges from doing it. Others point out that professors would still be allowed to apply this sort of critical analysis in their teaching but the colleges could not offer majors in anything that uses it. (I don’t think that solves the problem.) Mostly, though people on that twitter thread really seem to love this solution because:

CRT, etc., are founded on logical fallacies, the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy in particular, and taxpayers ought not be compelled to pay for teaching of ways of thinking that can only lead kids astray.

Lol. This person doesn’t know what CRT is but that doesn’t stop him or her from throwing around some Latin for the rubes.

By the way, I think plenty of Florida citizens think they ought not to be compelled to pay for transporting immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard or funding an “election police force” but that’s what’s happening.

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