Episode 175: Is Florida About To Teach Kids That Slavery Was Cool?
Episode 175: Is Florida About To Teach Kids That Slavery Was Cool?
Fact-checking Kamala Harris
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse fact checks VP Kamala Harris on Florida’s social studies curriculum. Plus, the fall of Twitter and the rise of X, the Seattle Times does a cancel culture, and Jesse considers faking his own death.
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Noah Kulwin calls on Jesse to kill himself
Noah Kulwin calls on the state to arrest Chris Rufo…
…and put him in the stocks so he can be pelted with rotten fruit
“Why So Many People Told Me To Kill Myself This Weekend” by Jesse
David Josef Volodzko: “My Family Was Hunted by Nazis. But I Was Fired For ‘Defending Hitler’”
Tablet: “Hitler and The Seattle Times”
David Josef Volozko on Substack
Axios: “Inside Musk's plan for an "everything app" to replace Twitter”
Jesse: “Mainstream Media Outlets Keep Botching Their Coverage Of The Critical Race Theory Debate“
Scientific American: “Anti–Critical Race Theory Movement Will Profoundly Affect Public Education”
NYT: DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida’s New Standards for Black History
Florida’s State Academic Standards—Social Studies, 2023
Charles Cooke: “Kamala Harris Is Brazenly Lying about Florida’s Slavery Curriculum”
Josh Marshall: About That Florida Curriculum
History Boomer: The Distorted Story of Florida's African American History Curriculum
Episode 175: Is Florida About To Teach Kids That Slavery Was Cool?
I am continuously baffled that Stalin, Lenin, Mao et. al. are not held in the same regard as Hitler. I agree that comparing evilness is a fool's errand, but it's really strange how one genocidal dictator is okay and one is not. Those that deny that the Holodomor happened are just as bad as Holocaust deniers in my mind. But, somehow tankies are just called weird and largely ignored. I know this is mostly a Twitter (or X) thing, or at least social media at large, but it leaks into other areas of life too. I almost guarantee there are more Communist professors than Nazi professors and people would be much less likely to be fired if they said something like "I'm a fan of Stalin's work" than "I'm a fan of Hitler's work." It's a really strange phenomenon that has permeated the zeitgeist so much that even Chat-GPT has a hard time accepting that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia may have both been very evil places that should be cautionary tales and not instruction manuals.
I am usually Team Katie with the low stakes back and forths on the pod, but I hate the AI images man. Something about them is so creepy and disgusting! Can we have the cover photo be cute pictures of Moose instead (if Getty Images are too boring)?