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"Class, today I direct you to talk about sex and then step out in the hall. If I am not present, I can't get in trouble if you learn things certain governors don't want you to learn about."
Has the tourism industry in Florida taking a hit yet?
I've been there probably five times in my life, the last time being right before this dumbass was elected; remember back when they were sandbagging all the black voters, booting hundreds of thousands of people from the voter rolls right before election day? Feels like it was thirty years ago.
Edit: forgot to say, have passed on two or three more opportunities to go there and no plans to go back. I'm glad I got to see it before it becomes covered in dead seaweed piled 10 meters deep but if there's one thing I don't like to be surrounded by more than seaweed it's uneducated dumbasses.
Is that not his plan? His feelings towards Disney make me think he'd tank tourism and his state economy if it hit Disney harder.
Well lookie here. It's Big-Government DeSantis creating the Junior Anti-Sex League.
The Junior Anti-Sex League represents the Party's efforts to control the most intimate aspects of individuals' lives in "1984".
Unlike Winston, [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.
Many people enjoy inserting and removing a their gun from a holster, however, it's important to remember that discharging your gun in the holster can have dire, life altering consequences.
these guys think about sex and children too much to not be pedophiles.
and this is the number one legislation you'd want to pass if you wanted to make it easier to engage in pedophilia.
They just want Florida schools to make victims.
When your thirty year plan as a governor is just to keep the Florida man meme alive forever.
Won't anybody think of the children!?
The age old adage of the oppressor
Florida biology classes mostly center around the four humors.
You joke, but it does feel as though dismantling public education is just a knock-on effect of all these gag orders.
If you want your kids to get a serious sex-ed or biology background, you're obligated to send them to private schools.
That's their plan. Educated citizens vote less often for restrictive, backwards Republican culture warrior control freaks.
The plan is a Christian Caliphate. These people are terminally lazy, so it's less work to be a radical sect than it is to learn how to build a bridge, or a healthy family.
Don't necessarily need to go as far as full private education. Unitarian Universalists have put together workshops for sexual education.
I'm not a member of UU, but I have friends who are and the curriculum seems legit.
I was raised UU! It's a great sex ed and relationship health program that addresses all aspects of relationships, sex-related or not. I highly recommend checking out your local Unitarian Universalist church/congregation if you have one nearby. They're pretty cool folks.
Ah yes, more "protecting the children"* to pander to an angry and stupid electorate.
* "Protecting the children" is a phrase used here to mean, "ensuring the next generation of an angry and stupid electorate."
The next *large and extremely young generation
To pander to the segment of the electorate DeSantis thinks is going to reelect him.
He needs to get the state legislature to revoke their term limits before he can be reelected.
This is how you get teens pregnant. And/or full of STDs.
Sick improvish children are easy to control.
When Fidesz banned sex ed here in Hungary on the basis of "child protection", we got an immediate rise in child pregnancies.
With all the hysteria around a White Lady Pregnancy Gap, this may be a feature rather than a bug.
And children and teens groomed and assaulted.
If the revolution needs a baby sitter, then the revolution will probably just stay home instead.