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Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like

Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.

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Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like

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  • The 22 courses that trustees marked for removal at Florida International University are heavily focused on social sciences, including Introduction to East Asia, Intercultural/Interracial Communication and Labor and Globalization. More than two dozen other courses updated their descriptions to comply with the law. Similar efforts — though the exact number of courses affected wasn’t immediately clear — played out across the state’s public universities.

    Yeah, we wouldn't want today's college students to learn about China. What use is that in today's world?

  • Is there such a thing as a conservative sociologist? Does that even exist? It sounds like a myth, like a conservative professor of ethics (not a self-described "professor of ethics" 🤣)

    • I'd imagine that a conservative professor of ethics would be the one telling doctors in training that when faced with the dilemma of saving the life of the mother or that of her unborn child, that they must then save the life of the child because it is without sin.

      This was taught in a Catholic university near me to doctors of my parents generation, but I suspect they stopped doing that here since about the 1990s. In other places of the world the Catholic church is still at it though.

    • "Christian Archaeologist"

    • It's interesting when you can find articles from some of these walking contradictions. I read a few articles by an anti-woke, pro-timber industry environmentalist a few weeks back and made a post about them. Reading them ticked me off so much, I revised my opinions on a lot of things I had been feeling mixed about. Hearing some pretty icky things in support of one side of the argument solidified that wasn't the choice for me.

      The guy who wrote them has credentials that are legit. He's been in the job and related ones forever, and he has lots of awards and commendations. I don't think there's any one of us though that hasn't worked with someone that we wonder why they're or how they've been promoted to where they are over the years. Just because someone has a job doesn't always mean they're good at it or that they should be doing it.

      The articles I shared are pretty thought provoking, for what I felt were bad reasons though, but if you'd like to read a conservative expert's opinion on logging and what should be done with Spotted owls, it will really give you some things to think about.

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