It's a real renaissance for infectious #diseases in #Florida. #DeSantis' #antivaxx policies, and laissez-faire attitude towards #publicHealth has led to a massive spike in #leprosy infections in the state. Who the hell gets leprosy in 2024? Floridians, that's who! Nice job, Ron.
NGL all of the #BoycottFlorida shit makes me realize that people assume the State is the same as the people (and of that, a small number of people who are harming the hundreds of thousands of non-white people who live here). I had to check my privilege on this when I moved to California and saw how it really should be four separate states.
The State is the problem; not the people. It's always the State.
HUGE: "DeSantis has rendered 3.3 million Floridians without their elected choice of prosecutor. That means that more than 15% of the people of the state of Florida have had one of their elections nullified unilaterally by the governor."
"Videos denying climate science approved by #Florida as state curriculum - Prager University Foundation’s animations cast doubt over renewable energy and liken climate activists to Nazis"
This is real, not the Onion or another parody site. Absolutely horrifying.
Videos that compare climate activists to Nazis, portray solar and wind energy as environmentally ruinous and claim that current global heating is part of natural long-term cycles will be made available to young schoolchildren in Florida, after the state approved their use in its public school curriculum.
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But experts who have studied the videos and other PragerU output have warned that many of Florida’s 3 million public schoolchildren risk being exposed to a form of rightwing indoctrination that conforms to the worldview of the organization’s funders but bears little resemblance to reality.
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“It’s propaganda 101. Equating people concerned about the climate change with Nazis can have long-term impacts on young, impressionable people. The beliefs PragerU are pushing forward overlap with far-right extremist beliefs. The fear is that they will bring this sort of extremist beliefs into mainstream society.”
Despite its name, Prager is not an academic institution and does not confer degrees. It is a rightwing advocacy group founded in 2009 that produces various materials, including magazines and videos, that have been criticized by experts for inaccurate portrayals of slavery and racism in the US.
In one of the videos allowed by Florida, a girl in Poland called Ania is shown questioning the need to transition away from coal, a key driver of the climate crisis, to renewables. Her parents tell her that the planet has heated up and cooled since prehistoric times, even without the burning of fossil fuels.
Ania clashes with friends who want swift action on the climate crisis and starts a blog in which she raises doubts about switching to renewable energy and frets as her community is plunged into destitution without coal. “Renewable energy sources don’t contribute much energy,” the video states. “Unlike coal, energy from the wind or sun is unreliable, expensive and difficult to store.”
The video concludes by raising the specter of Nazi Germany, with Ania’s grandfather praising her stand against people concerned about climate change by comparing it to the Warsaw uprising. “Through her family’s stories, Ania is realizing that fighting oppression is risky and that it always takes courage,” the voiceover states."
@flexghost I know they want people who think for themselves to leave the state, so all that's left is a bunch of morons who'll accept anything they shove down their throat... but it isn't just a few people in Florida voting for these guys. The majority of Florida overwhelmingly voted for him, so fuck them... every reasonable person with the means should get the fuck out of Florida.
Let them lose population, lose experts, lose tax dollars, lose doctors, lose competitiveness. #boycottFlorida
#Republicans in #Texas are just as bad as Republicans in #Florida. Shutting down libraries and turning them into "discipline centers" in Texas' largest #school district is atrocious. It demonstrates what @GOP priorities are.
Good for them. Every major organization, group, trade group, academic organization (looking at you ALA) should #BoycottFlorida and not do any conventions nor business there.
"Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting."
*Obviously, I copied the text from the article. Now, the article has changed, so I deleted the second paragraph. It said "...violence perpetrated BY African Americans, it now says "on."
This is it today is the day the strike against our state has begun. I didn't want this to happen but our fascist governor chose to sign an anti immigration law out of spite since he and his lackeys are anti immigration. #BoycottFlorida
Am I the only one noticing that Casey deSantis, wife of Ron DeSantis, dresses like a “wife” in the Netflix series Handmaid’s Tale? Frightening. Soon she will stop reading. Already so many books are banned in Florida’s school, logical next step. Fashion used as a political tool. #handmaidstale#fashionaspoliticalstatement#banflorida#boycottflorida#margaretatwood#netflix