Lawmaker to Push Bill Requiring Dinesh D'Souza's 'America' Be Shown in Schools

[sunoftheskye]

Florida GOP state senator Alan Hays said he’ll propose a bill mandating that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.

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[lovedforaday]

We need to inform our students of our whole history, and teach them how to think, not what to think,” Hays said.

but when that happens people like this hayes guy cry liberal indoctrination. teaching anything other than the founding fathers farted gold and rainbows, most slave owners were benevolent people who were super nice to their slaves and the US is the world's superhero is liberal to these types of people.

[nesmith]

It's complete and utter hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance with these people; it's bad when THEY do it, but what WE do is totally not the same thing at ALL!

[fenris_lorsrai]

Hays said his intent is to reach out to charitable groups that would supply schools with the necessary copies of the movie so as not to burden Florida taxpayers.

what's that thing you guys hate lots? what was it? oh yeah, UNFUNDED MANDATES.

and don't you also hate common core for interfering in local school districts freeeeeeeeeeeedom to do whatever they want without government interference? unless you think they're not showing your version of truth. then its all mandates.

also, this is NOT how you'd do that. we'll specify this via legislation so that fifty years from now it'll be an onerous unfunded mandate that lingers on books because virtually no law is every repealed, no matter how useless or outdated.

[mercystars]

why stop there, why not make it 'double feature Wednesdays' or whatever and show it with 'Birth Of A Nation'? you know you want to!

[fenris_lorsrai]

We actually did watch part of Birth of a Nation as example of media portrayal of black people during early twentieth century and how it shaped public opinion and legislation at time.

We watched maybe 10 minutes of it total, long enough for every student in class to get super uncomfortable about the whole thing, especially the actors in blackface.

[astridmyrna]

Republicans are complete fucking hypocrites, news at 11.

Though I guess you could use this movie for educational purposes and make it a fact-checking project with reliable sources and teach them how to check the movie's sources.

[amyura]

Wait, aren't the conservative Republicans the loudest complainers about how Common Core is a government takeover of education? What do they think this is?

[nesmith]

Well, clearly this is something completely different and not at all subject to the same complaints.

(I'd get a Magnusson icon for this but I hate him and besides John Cleese is so much better.)