Florida man won't stop obsessing over college students.
This should give you the chills: a historian picking and choosing what facts to teach at a public state university, not based on their truth or falsity, but based on whether they might offend the party in power.” law imposed on K-12 schools. That legislation’s vague provisions ban any discussion of sexuality or gender, including one’s own, unless it is deemed to be “age appropriate.
That category covers the overwhelming majority of teachers: 72%, according to Cassanello’s statistics. As a result, several courses have been canceled outright, and others have been modified for fear of reprisal. “Professors are taking it upon themselves to self-censor.” Still, Fiore is determined. “It’s not going to stop me – I’m still going to try to put this class together. We can’t do away with racism unless we’re able to confront our past.”
Which makes the stories of students like Libretti and Cartagena essential. I asked Cartagena what it was like, as a politically active student on campus, and the overall impression I got was one of deep uncertainty.
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