Ron DeSantis, 'Don't say gay,' and the new GOP 'snitch culture'

[iemanja]

Add this one to the prohibitions on teaching history that may be uncomfortable for some white people.

First, a new battle has erupted between the White House and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), now that DeSantis has signaled support for what critics are calling the “Don’t say gay” bill advancing in the Florida legislature. The bill would restrict classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity, and President Biden just slammed it as “hateful.”

Second, a new GOP proposal in West Virginia would establish a tip line for parents to report teachers caught proselytizing about critical race theory. After a similar tip line was instituted in Virginia, this suggests the mania for mechanisms to rat out offending teachers may be spreading.

The Florida “Don’t say gay” bill prohibits school districts from encouraging “discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” that is not “age appropriate” or “developmentally appropriate.”

In response to critics who argue this would stigmatize LGBTQ people, supporters insist it wouldn’t prohibit such discussions if they arise. But the bill doesn’t define what is “age-appropriate” or “developmentally appropriate.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/09/desantis-dont-say-gay-bill-florida/

Again the point is to make teachers frightened of teaching anything that upsets the Nazi right. Who would become a teacher in this climate?

[Botany]

1. This is 100% gas lighting for manipulative political purposes and the Gov. knows that too.

I wonder how the don't say gay policy will do in South Beach, Orlando, and the Keys?

[Mike Nelson]

2. Well...

... the time to teach sexuality is before children develop their own sexual identity - so that's age appropriate, in my opinion. Age appropriate means you may read Heather Has Two Mommies to a class... not Lynne Cheney's Sisters... little kids would be bored with Sisters, I think...