DeSantis: The Authoritarian

gwb-trading said:
Any books about Hispanics... they are also on the Ron DeSantis book ban list.

Ron DeSantis' culture war benches baseball great Roberto Clemente biography
https://www.rawstory.com/clemente-book/

One of the most inspiring baseball stories ever told might not be suitable for Florida public school libraries under the rule of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The book, “Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates,” is among the more than 1 million titles that “have been covered or stored and paused for student use” in Florida, NBC News reported. The freeze follows the Florida “Stop W.O.K.E. Act” that DeSantis signed in 2022.

The book about Clemente’s life by Jonah Winter and Raul Colon is not alone. Other books about Latino figures, such as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the late Afro-Cuban salsa single Celia Cruz, have the same frozen status, NBC reported.

Clemente, an Afro-Puerto Rican widely regarded as among the top tier of all-time baseball greats, died at the age of 38 in 1972, when his plane crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico as he was delivering relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

Clemente was among the greatest Latino heroes in history, not only as an athlete but as a humanitarian and outspoken foe of injustice.

“Clemente often denounced racism and discrimination in his native Spanish language, and he spoke publicly about his experiences as a Black Latino climbing the baseball ranks during the civil rights movement,” NBC News noted. “He even spoke about political and social issues alongside Martin Luther King Jr.”

Apparently, that might not comport with what children in Florida are allowed to learn now. Here’s how NBC described that:

“School officials are in the process of determining if such books comply with state laws and can be included in school libraries.

“DeSantis signed laws last year that require schools to rely on certified media specialists to approve which books can be integrated into classrooms. Guidance on how that would be implemented was provided to schools in December.

Books must align with state standards such as not teach K-3 students about gender identity and sexual orientation; not teach critical race theory, which examines systemic racism in American society, in public grade schools; and not include references to pornography and discrimination, according to the school district.”
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Other Republicans calling DeSantis what he is...

“If we’re trying to beat the Democrats at being big-government authoritarians, remember what’s going to happen,” Sununu said on CBS News’s “Face The Nation” Sunday. “Eventually, they’ll have power in a state or in a position and then they’ll start penalizing conservative businesses and conservative nonprofits and conservative ideas. That is the worst precedent in the world.”

Sununu takes shots at DeSantis, signaling potential 2024 bid
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/sununu-takes-shots-at-desantis-signaling-potential-2024-bid/
 
Authoritarians don't like being challenged.

The College Board which runs the AP tests came out with a point-by-point rebuttal of DeSantis' claims about the African-American AP course over the weekend -- demonstrating that nearly everything DeSantis pushed was a lie.

DeSantis did not take this well. Now he is blowing a hissy fit and will cancel ALL AP courses in Florida.

Well that's going to help those high school students get into top universities, eh? (BTW - with no AP courses you will not even be considered for most top universities -- for example UNC and Duke expect to see at least five.)

DeSantis Throws Fit and Threatens to Kill All AP Courses in Florida
https://www.thedailybeast.com/flori...nd-threatens-to-end-all-ap-courses-in-florida

DeSantis: Florida Legislature will ‘reevaluate’ state’s relationship with College Board following AP course controversy
https://www.local10.com/news/local/...ollege-board-following-ap-course-controversy/
 
gwb-trading said:
Authoritarians don't like being challenged.

The College Board which runs the AP tests came out with a point-by-point rebuttal of DeSantis' claims about the African-American AP course over the weekend -- demonstrating that nearly everything DeSantis pushed was a lie.

DeSantis did not take this well. Now he is blowing a hissy fit and will cancel ALL AP courses in Florida.

Well that's going to help those high school students get into top universities, eh? (BTW - with no AP courses you will not even be considered for most top universities -- for example UNC and Duke expect to see at least five.)

DeSantis Throws Fit and Threatens to Kill All AP Courses in Florida
https://www.thedailybeast.com/flori...nd-threatens-to-end-all-ap-courses-in-florida

DeSantis: Florida Legislature will ‘reevaluate’ state’s relationship with College Board following AP course controversy
https://www.local10.com/news/local/...ollege-board-following-ap-course-controversy/
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b..b.b.but keeping schools open in FL was good for student attainment...!
 
Ron DeSantis promises fewer death penalty safeguards as he marks Parkland shooting anniversary
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responded to the fifth anniversary of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida by calling for more people to be killed with capital punishment.

At a press conference Tuesday, DeSantis was asked if enough had been done to stop future gunmen like the one who killed 17 people in Parkland.

"If there's never accountability, these things are more likely to happen," the governor insisted.

DeSantis complained that gunman Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole instead of the death penalty.

"We're going to reform the capital sentencing procedure in Florida," he vowed. "Of course, to be convicted of a crime, you need a unanimous jury. But Nikolas Cruz was somebody everyone knew was guilty, and he's entitled to process, but he admitted it, right?"

"So then they go for the penalty phase, you kill 17 people, what other penalty can you get other than the ultimate penalty?" DeSantis asked.

"All I can say is we're doing something about it," he added.
 
Spike Trader said:
Ron DeSantis promises fewer death penalty safeguards as he marks Parkland shooting anniversary
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responded to the fifth anniversary of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida by calling for more people to be killed with capital punishment.

At a press conference Tuesday, DeSantis was asked if enough had been done to stop future gunmen like the one who killed 17 people in Parkland.

"If there's never accountability, these things are more likely to happen," the governor insisted.

DeSantis complained that gunman Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole instead of the death penalty.

"We're going to reform the capital sentencing procedure in Florida," he vowed. "Of course, to be convicted of a crime, you need a unanimous jury. But Nikolas Cruz was somebody everyone knew was guilty, and he's entitled to process, but he admitted it, right?"

"So then they go for the penalty phase, you kill 17 people, what other penalty can you get other than the ultimate penalty?" DeSantis asked.

"All I can say is we're doing something about it," he added.
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Sorry but a person willing to go and kill 17 kids is not deterred by life in prison or the death penalty (which takes a life's time before it is done) so it is all bullshit. Many gunmand off themselves so they dont give a shit what the punishment is.

To claim you are doing something about it by not preventing it from happening but instead making punishment harsher is just useless blather.
 
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