Florida Repubs: NO to totalitarian dictators, YES to fascism.
Somebody please remind me how we got to this state in the land of the free... Florida state representatives have voted along party lines for the "Academic Freedom Bill of Rights," which means (in the grand GOP tradition) that academics will no longer be able to enjoy academic freedom.
Is it enough for the GOP to control all three branches of government? Hell, no! They're sticking to their victim mentality and fascistic ideals by trying to legislate the speech of college professors. How? By guaranteeing the right to employ trial lawyers (you know, the guys the GOP hates so much) to file multi-million dollar suits against professors who express their personal views. And in classic "deep pockets" reasoning, the wealthy universities who dare to hire professors with whom any individual student may disagree.
In a week filled with Republican hypocrisy over the sanctity of marriage, it's nice to be able to write about an aspect of Republican hypocrisy that fills me with outrage rather than revulsion...
Required reading.
Is it enough for the GOP to control all three branches of government? Hell, no! They're sticking to their victim mentality and fascistic ideals by trying to legislate the speech of college professors. How? By guaranteeing the right to employ trial lawyers (you know, the guys the GOP hates so much) to file multi-million dollar suits against professors who express their personal views. And in classic "deep pockets" reasoning, the wealthy universities who dare to hire professors with whom any individual student may disagree.
In a week filled with Republican hypocrisy over the sanctity of marriage, it's nice to be able to write about an aspect of Republican hypocrisy that fills me with outrage rather than revulsion...
Required reading.
posted by Matt Sandwich | 3:24 PM
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