The DeSantis containment thread -- all things DeSantis go here

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Take another look at those three introductory speakers on Monday and you can see an update on Ronald Reagan's famous "three-legged stool" of conservatism. In the 1980s, it was a fusion of Christian traditionalists, Cold War hawks, and fiscal conservatives. Those broad factions don't meaningfully exist in contemporary politics, but DeSantis is probably correct that the GOP's national coalition is best triangulated around public safety, conservative parents wary of cultural liberalism, and COVID reactionaries; with the last category ranging from people rightfully angered by how government and corporate elites handled the pandemic to anti-vax conspiracy theorists.

The new legs of the conservative stool are all sympathetic to DeSantis' willingness to dispense with political checks and balances in order to slay a "woke" economic Goliath. DeSantis made that point more explicit in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal: "When corporations try to use their economic power to advance a woke agenda, they become political, and not merely economic, actors," he wrote. "In such an environment, reflexively deferring to big business effectively surrenders the political battlefield to the militant left. Having private companies wield de facto public power isn't in the best interests of most Americans."


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DeSantis' latest Disney drama turns culture war into political gains
 
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n_huffhines said:
LOL. "Held for review" for months and suddenly approved after it became a national story.
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Whoever is in charge of approving books in schools has to actually read them. There weren't just two books selected. As a parent, I would like the books in schools to have some oversight on appropriateness. Given Gender Queer was in libraries, the previous method didn't work.

Also, the claim was that they were banned and they weren't. Now the goal posts are being moved.
 
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utvols88 said:
Whoever is in charge of approving books in schools has to actually read them. There weren't just two books selected. As a parent, I would like the books in schools to have some oversight on appropriateness. Given Gender Queer was in libraries, the previous method didn't work.

Also, the claim was that they were banned and they weren't. Now the goal posts are being moved.
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Give me a break. You think the point is that it's semantically inaccurate to call it banning. The point is this is centralized government ridiculousness whitewashing our past.

Good thing tax dollars went into re-approving thousands of books so we don't accidentally teach 3rd graders too much of our history.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Give me a break. You think the point is that it's semantically inaccurate to call it banning. The point is this is centralized government ridiculousness whitewashing our past.

Good thing tax dollars went into re-approving thousands of books so we don't accidentally teach 3rd graders too much of our history.
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Too much of our history? Do you have any examples that history curriculum excludes history or has been white washed? Do you have any examples of books being banned that you think should be appropriate?
 
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utvols88 said:
That's your example on DeSantis' admin currently "whitewashing and excluding" history? Desantis had nothing to do with that as he wasn't born when that was a lesson.
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DeSantis is here now, and it’s clear he has full power to change the curriculum as he sees fit.

Teaching kids that Christopher Columbus discovering American is Exhibit A of said whitewashing. I’m doubtful that DeSantis will remove any books “for review” on that subject. 🧐
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
DeSantis is here now, and it’s clear he has full power to change the curriculum as he sees fit.

Teaching kids that Christopher Columbus discovering American is Exhibit A of said whitewashing. I’m doubtful that DeSantis will remove any books “for review” on that subject. 🧐
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So you'd support him removing books in school libraries that say Christopher Columbus discovered America?
 
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LG getting ahead of the game in Jan 2022..TDS to DTS as I saId..."Containment" is the thread.
 
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