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Tag: Culture wars

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Florida Dental Association’s Brenna Kever talks about the statewide ban on fluoride and what it means for oral health

Increased tooth decay. More dental care expenses. Brushing and flossing are still good defense.

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COMMENTARY

Why the CROWN Act needs to pass

Black hair deserves protection under the law.

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GOVERNMENT

Local legislators respond to House Resolution to cut ties with CAIR

“This is not the purview of the state government. It is the purview of the federal government.”

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BOOK BANS

Orange County Public Schools and the New Pornography

The Orange County Board of Education wants to re-define “pornography” to circumvent longstanding procedures for removing controversial books from school library shelves.

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BANNED BOOKS

Republican Math Book Shenanigans May Tank AP Classes

Students taking Advanced Placement courses for college credit may become collateral damage in Gov. Ron DeSantis’s culture wars.

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ABORTION

Florida Bound

Banning abortion after 15 weeks, GOP lawmakers show the bill is about controlling women. They won’t stop there.

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BOOK BANS

OCPS and the censoring of middle and high-school libraries

One man grabbed the spotlight at a fall school board meeting. Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Jenkins caved. Now LGBTQ and certain BIPOC books can’t be found in school libraries, and bills to make that permanent are under consideration in the Florida Legislature.

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BOOK BANS

Book banning isn’t "liberty”

After the Orlando Sentinel’s splashy Sunday spread on Moms For Liberty, SPEAKUp’s co-founder had to speak out against censorship.

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CULTURE WARS

Gov. DeSantis wins the battle to ban critical race theory, but loses the war on history

The governor believes that teaching history as anything other than the “universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence” will cause students to hate and destroy our country. That’s the same reasoning slavers used to forbid teaching enslaved people to read and write out of fear of rebellion.

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CULTURE WARS

Orlando Sentinel guest columnist misses Disney’s rape-y, racist imagery

A Christian conservative Republican gripes that Disney World's changes to make its parks more inclusive capitulates to "woke" politics that won't "offend certain people." Like that's a bad thing?

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