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  "textContent": "With measures borrowed from history’s totalitarian regimes, political leaders in Florida are taking unprecedented steps to indoctrinate students and prevent them from learning about the world in ways that may lead them to question the leaders’ ideology. The State University System of Florida’s Board of Governors recently developed a newly revised edition of a textbook and syllabus for introduction to sociology courses at the system’s schools. Their adoption is mandatory at the state’s public colleges, while the administrators at the state’s universities will decide whether to also adopt them. Reportedly, Florida State University and Florida International University adopted the textbook, while the University of Florida has not. According to the Independent Florida Alligator, The state-approved textbook is 267 pages—compared to about 665 pages in the original Openstax Introduction to Sociology… Faculty say the new version removes entire units on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, gender, sex and sexuality [and] it also eliminates a section addressing the government-led genocide of Native Americans. On the social media site Bluesky, Zachary Levenson, associate professor of sociology at Florida International University, said, “those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.” He shared an excerpt from the curriculum: What we have here is a branch of the Florida government forbidding the discussion of a wide range of sociological topics and theses in sociology courses. It is a violation of academic freedom and freedom of expression backed by the force of law and with the aim of curtailing knowledge and enforcing a political ideology. It is, in short, a strategy of totalitarianism.\n\nThe post Florida Implements Stronger Thought Policing first appeared on Daily Nous.",
  "title": "Florida Implements Stronger Thought Policing"
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