It’s difficult to decide when and why Florida Governor Ron DeSantis first became a Nazi. Did his parents beat him for the slightest infraction? Did the school children tease him about having tiny genitals? Was he friendless — always the last kid chosen?
For whatever reasons, this hate-mongering bigot has turned to Hitler as his model.
Consider the eagerness with which he has embraced the ICE thugs as they roam and arrest unabated by conscience, compassion or legal restraint.
Consider his pride and joy, the vile “Alligator Alcatraz,” an unimaginably cruel concentration camp that’s missing only gas chambers and ovens to be complete. What kind of person could willingly throw desperate people—whose only “crime” was to follow in the footsteps of America’s early settlers in search of a better life—into such a nightmare?
And now, in his final months as governor, his latest insult to America: If you hope your children will be taught to be, hate-mongering, uneducated bigots, you might consider a Hitlerian college-qualification course DeSantis is foisting on Florida’s children.
Apparently, some Floridians are unaware—or prefer their children not to learn—that slavery existed in America and that it was brutally inhumane and morally reprehensible.
Perhaps there are Floridians who don’t know, and don’t want their children to learn, that slavery was largely supported by white bible-quoting, anti-Christ Christians, some of whose descendants still deny its existence while mourning its passing.
Some Floridians might deny that Black and brown people are equal to white people — they have families and children they love, along with hopes and dreams just like anyone else.
Some Floridians might reject the idea that Christianity is just one of many respected religions in America, and that people who accept Christ as their savior still can be bad, while some who don’t repeatedly praise Jesus still can be good—like those having no religion at all.
There even may be Floridians who deny that women have the same rights to health and happiness as men, and are just as intelligent and hardworking, often more so, but still remain the most brutalized segment of our population. Donald Trunp has paid millions of dollars denying that fact.
This nation was built by honest, hard-working immigrants in search of better lives, just like today’s newcomers, and without them, we lose part of what made America great.
I mention these facts because, while you may find them obvious, they appear to go against the teachings of Florida’s MAGA-Nazi leaders, especially Governor Ron, who seems to want Florida’s children to grow up as ignorant, hate-based bigots.
Does this sound familiar? Hitler and the Nazi Party systematically reshaped education to teach an ideological and distorted version of history. Schools in Nazi Germany were used as tools of propaganda.
History classes commonly taught that Germans were a superior “Aryan” race. The curriculum distorted or omitted facts that conflicted with Nazi ideology.
For example, Jewish contributions to German culture and science were minimized or erased; atrocities were reframed or hidden; racist pseudoscience was presented as legitimate biology and history; German history was rewritten as a heroic racial struggle.
Textbooks, teachers, youth organizations, films, and radio all reinforced the same narrative. In another age, Hitler would have used the pejorative term, “woke.”.
That does not mean every single thing taught was false. Propaganda is usually more effective when mixed with truths, selective omissions, emotional framing, and repetition.
People experience reality through interpretive frameworks built from prior information. Control the framework, and you strongly influence what people perceive as obvious, moral, or true.
Keep Hitler’s methods in mind as you read the following:
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State launches history course to rival AP Florida launches a US history course to rival AP. Experts have concerns Experts fear it would present sanitized view of nation’s story
Florida is launching its own college-level U.S. history course for high school students, trying to teach “the full scope” of America’s story, but some experts say the proposed lesson plans present sanitized views of topics such as slavery, and some college counselors say pupils should stay away.
The new course, which also places particular emphasis on Christian faithand American exceptionalism, will be offered in select school districts as a pilot program starting next school year. Florida high school students who pass the course’s standardized exam can get credit at Florida’s public colleges and universities.
The history course, part of Florida Advanced Courses and Tests, or FACT, is the latest attempt by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to move Florida away from courses and exams offered by the College Board, the nonprofit that makes the Advanced Placement program and the SAT college admissions exam.
In recent years, the state’s Republican leader has argued that the College Board’s AP courses — long a popular way for Florida high school students to get a head start on their college course load — tilt to the political left.
That fight came to a head in 2023 when DeSantis created a national uproar by prohibiting Florida public high schools from offering the AP African American studies course because it included critical race theory and other topics, he found objectionable.
This week the state released a 214-page framework for the new course, outlining its goals and the topics to be covered. “The FACT U.S. History framework underscores our commitment to instruction grounded in the full scope of our nation’s history, while ensuring materials are free from ideological bias or indoctrination,” said Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas in a statement.
More importantly, free from facts that might embarrass hate-mongering bigots, who no longer wear sheets and pointy hates, but would like to.
Almost half a million students take AP U.S. history each year nationwide, including about 200,000 in Florida. The new history course aims to “teach our young people to become informed, self-aware, and dedicated citizens of the United States of America—of this particular nation,” the framework reads.
It differs in several ways from the long-established AP class, perhaps most notably that it leans heavily into Christian faith, using verses from the Bible as primary sources.
But apparently does not include the words spoken by Jesus regarding the treatment of others, including Jesus description of the final judgment: “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” And “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
It also does not include such passages as, “The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself.” Or “You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, since you were strangers in Egypt.”
FACT U.S. History also recommends only one textbook, “Land of Hope: An Invitation to the American Story,” authored by a historian from the conservative Christian Hillsdale College in Michigan.
Adam Rothman, a historian at Georgetown University and director of the school’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies, said Florida is “0 for 3” on their promises for the FACT course.
The course does not look to offer “a full scope” of U.S. history, Rothman said, nor does it seem “free from ideological bias or indoctrination.” Rothman called the course “shoddy” and “not a college-level U.S. history class.”
DeSantis is not interested in college level instruction. He wants only bigoted (i.e., anti-black) propaganda that eliminates what he calls “woke” (i.e., morally and factually honest).
Rothman said the lack of discussion on the racism in early U.S. history, for example, was “striking.” The word “racism” never appears in the entire 214-page course framework, while the topic appears in the first unit of AP U.S. history and then in numerous parts of that course.
“You can’t really understand the contradiction between freedom and slavery at the founding of the United States in the late 18th century without some grasp of the emergence of racist views about black people,” he said.
The FACT course contains factual errors, Rothman added, such as saying “indentured servants” were brought to the Americas in 1619 instead of “slaves.”
(Defenders of the course say) “American history is a site of contestation, full of lively disagreements. Which is precisely why no one organization should be permitted to have a monopoly on advanced-placement testing. We will all be better off if we have a variety of choices,” McClay wrote.
When people deny the differences between right and wrong, and between moral vs. immoral, they use the “both sides” false argument. By giving children a “variety of choices,” some will choose hatred and bigotry, and some will not.
Is that what a parent should want — “Teach them the world is flat and let them choose”?
The FACT course framework outlines a 9-unit course with specific primary sources and key facts that students are expected to memorize for the exam. “It represents an important step toward restoring academic integrity in the classroom after years of uneven and, at times, ideologically driven instruction,” said Ryan Petty, chair of the State Board of Education, in a statement.
Opposing “ideologically driven instruction,” while twisting history to fit the extreme right-wing, Nazi ideology, is ironic,
In contrast, the AP U.S. History course framework is more than twice as long at 560 pages and emphasizes a less “content prescriptive” approach, according to the College Board, meaning teachers have leeway to use different historical examples in their lessons.
Kevin Kruse, a Princeton professor, posted a thread to the social media site Bluesky sharing and criticizing parts of the Florida course outline, from its use of Bible selections to its discussions of slavery, the New Deal and abortion. “If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here’s the document,” he wrote.
One person who responded noted Florida’s course implies Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who pushed the “Red Scare” communist panic in the 1950s, was justified in his crusade. Florida’s social studies standards for teaching communism, approved last year, make a similar point, though McCarthy’s biography on the U.S. Senate website notes some of his accusations were deemed “a fraud and a hoax” and that he was censured by the Senate.
Kruse also highlighted that the Florida course criticized Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that protected a woman’s right to an abortion, as a ruling that “removed a contentious topic from the democratic process.” And it seemed to praise the 2022 overturning of Roe as “returning the matter to regulation by the states via the democratic process.”
No one should wonder if colleges outside Florida will offer credits based on FACT, he added. “It’s not unknown. We won’t accept this,” he wrote.
The FACT course may not give students college creditat out of state schools, and it also may be viewed by some admissions departments as less rigorous than AP or International Baccalaureate courses, which also offer high school students a way to earn college credit.
But for students who plan to attend an in-state (Florida) college or university, is guaranteed to be accepted for credit.
Those Florida parents who do not want their children to be indoctrinated into MAGA-Nazism should beware. The hate-mongers are after your children.
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