Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between men and women in the United States. You check the guidance you just received from your dean, who received instructions via email from the executive vice chancellor of the Florida College System.
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Never in the history of the world have the good guys banned books.
Florida is a shithole within a shithole.
Place has been shit since the hanging chads.
Having grown up there, it was shit well before then too.
Blessed be the fruit
The solution to this is simple! Each college should put out an official policy statement that says, “we will not use any textbooks selected by a majority committee of white people.”
Legally, what could the board of governors do about it? The discussion of the existence of racism is barred by Florida law!
Tell them to cite, in the sociology textbook they manufactured, precisely where racism or any sort of discrimination like this is mentioned. Ask them to give a historical example of how this could possibly be a problem!
I miss the old Florida that was just rednecks and old people. The worst stories were about them wrestling alligators or driving 20 under the speed limit in the left lane.
