Under the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has become the right-wing vanguard in the culture wars over identity and speech. Every day, the state is making it clearer how the right’s agenda is not meant to protect “free speech” or critical thought, but instead is designed to systematically suppress them.
The latest example comes via the Florida Department of Education’s rejection of an Advanced Placement course in African American studies. On Friday, the department characterized the course as “woke indoctrination” and objected to several aspects of its curriculum. But what it objects to as intolerable propaganda is simply the standard educational practice of exposing students to different frameworks for understanding the world. The concerning indoctrination in this scenario isn’t in the curriculum, but in Florida’s condemnation of that curriculum.
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