Ironically, China isn’t really Maoist anymore. Dengist state capitalism is the government ideology there.
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Can we use their mask excuses? It’s private, I have a note from my doctor, and it’s a HIPPA violation for you to ask?
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It’s a minor point in this context, but there are no “children” involved here. College students are legal adults in almost all cases. What their parents think should not have any relevance whatsoever. If you actually wanted to expose children to a wide range of views, you’d start when they’re children.
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At the rate we are going 70 year-olds of the future are going to need permission slips from their 99 year-old parents to make medical decisions for their 40 year-old children.
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This is not about that at all. It’s about registering political points of view so particular faculty and parts of the student body can be watched and then censored as necessary. We don’t want people teaching anti-American things like the truth, after all.
But who cares, right? It’s JUST Florida and it’s just colleges, we don’t need that shit anyways, right? If liberals wanted to be free, they would live in different places where this couldn’t possibly happen, not where they wanted to… /s
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Well, Confucianism runs the show over there really. That’s one of the reasons why they left the Hui alone and focused their ire at the Uighurs instead (outside of the obvious racism). They believe how the Hui approaches government, the folks in charge in Beijing and how they relate to the Hui’s views on Islam to be more compatible with Confucianism (well that’s what Beijing and the Hui say but who really knows at the end of the day).
If anything, they see communism as a form on governance that’s very compatible with confucianism.
Republicans would probably argue that most American college students get financial support from their parents, therefore the parents have a right to know what they are paying for.
I doubt it would occur to those Republicans to consider whether it’s a good idea to have a system where one’s educational opportunities are dictated by one’s family resources in the first place.
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So the Party of Small Government™ has officially ratified a goodthink bureaucracy in order to ‘promote’ intellectual diversity by putting everyone on notice that the state is watching; Political Commissars presumably to be appointed soon?
I describe this as “intellectually consistent”, with massive air quotes, just for your records, Florida.
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OK, which name can I use to say I am left wing without using scary words like socialism, communism, Marxism, anarchism or liberalism?
How about Libertarian Municipalism? That should fly under the Republicans radar for at least a little while.
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When I was 18 I considered myself a Republican, because I took the stuff on the brochures at face value, and had not yet learned to question the doctrine of radical self sufficiency with which I had been raised. None of my underlying core values have changed in the slightest, yet seeing things by the cold light of day led me to switch from Red Team to Blue Team. Where was I indoctrinated?
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Given the trends in cost of late-life care, trends in birthrates; and the reliability of old people as a voting bloc you’ll probably need to submit a cost-benefit analysis demonstrating that the 40 year old will be a net contributor to geriatric medical costs to even be considered for authorization to divert funds that way…
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Oh, you know, commie ideas like facts, critical thinking, horrible stuff like that. Augh, I don’t understand why anyone would tolerate this asshole pretending to run things…
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I see communism as being compatible with Taoism though. This is because communism can mean many things and I am very much in the anarcho-communist grouping.
What isn’t compatible with communism is capitalism, and China is currently an authoritarian capitalist state. I have strong doubts about whether they even aspire to becoming communist, so I think of communist China as being as true as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
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Also, they have a history of pressuring families to make sure all members support GOP candidates. They’ll go through employers, as well as schools. This is why reports of that party getting access to past voting records represent a serious breach and a violation of privacy. It’s one thing to check voter registration, but when they lose there’s nothing they won’t do to rig the system in their favor in an attempt to get back in power.
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Yes, and…
Most young adults arrive at college with their parents’ beliefs, unquestioned at that point in their lives. It is quite possible, especially in a state such as Florida, that they’ll have to cut back on all the ‘conservative’ students.
Testing them 4 years later when they graduate, or (even better) a few years out when they’ve had to endure the realities of making a living in our economy, would provide a very different balance.
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Maybe not coming out of college if anyone in the faculty who is remotely on the left gets purged… And if they come from homes of means, which given how hard it is to finance a college education right now, will be the majority of the student body, their parents have connections, which means good paying, salaried jobs. And of course, DeSantis is doing all he can to ensure the poor can’t vote…
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I would think that they would simply feel that a high percentage of conservative students reflects the population as a whole and is therefore completely appropriate.
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That’s what they want. They don’t want the poor or people of a liberal, progressive, or leftist slant to have access to higher ed. This very much goes along with their views on who should and shouldn’t vote. They WANT a second class citizenry to do all the dirty work that they can abuse and throw away to service the white male elite.
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Wow that is some fucked up shit right there.
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