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

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
A new GOP "snitch culture" is spreading.

* DeSantis just backed the Don't Say Gay measure. It includes rights of action against teachers

* A new bill in WV sets up a tip line to report teachings of CRT

Spreading fear and panic is the point.

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washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Ron DeSantis, ‘Don’t say gay,’ and the new GOP ‘snitch culture’
What all these new GOP bills are really trying to accomplish.
9:07 AM · Feb 9, 2022

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

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The GOP proposals sweeping the country that restrict the teaching of race have an obvious purpose: to make teachers feel perpetually on thin ice, so they shy away from difficult discussions about our national past rather than risk breaking laws in ways they cannot themselves anticipate.
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But there’s another, more pernicious goal driving these bills that might well succeed politically precisely because it remains largely unstated. The darker underlying premise here is that these bills are needed in the first place, because subversive elements lurk around every corner in schools, looking to pervert, indoctrinate or psychologically torture your kids.

Firmly establishing this premise as true — as the basis for moral panic — is itself the key to this broader campaign. Two developments in the school wars drive this home.

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.

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[Scrivener7]

1. "Snitch culture" is the perfect description!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. So much for the "Freedom State of Florida "