Florida bans AP psychology, College Board says, because of lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation, which violate state rules.
Gee, it’s almost as if when you have such a massive shift from the DSM-IV to the DSM-V you cause a rift. Who’d a thunk.
Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday.
No, it’s because of bigots that want to suppress people who aren’t exactly like them.
The DSM 5 was out when I was taking this class years ago. Don’t think that’s the problem…
I’m going to take a step back from the topic itself.
I think the real problem here is that we can’t agree on what “fact” is. Both sides are certain that they are correct. Both sides can present what they believe is scientific evidence. How do we move forward from that? Both sides simply discredit the sources used in the science the other side is presenting. It seems that both sides are using brute force to push their belief. And that seems to just make the other side angrier and more dug in. How do we have conversations anymore?
Edit: oof. Yeah, that is where we are.
We can’t have conversations because one side argues in bad faith, makes shit up, and behaves like fucking gremlins by defunding services then claiming they don’t work.
Sure, step away from the topic itself. Blue states don’t have post birth abortions, slavery did not benefit African American, climate change is not a hoax, and Rosa Parks was protesting racism. Claiming otherwise isn’t “alternative facts”, they’re just fucking lies.
“Both sides” - fucking brainlet.
Only one side chooses to lie because the facts actually aren’t on their side
Group 1: I understand that transgenderism is legitimate and supported by science. People should be able to identify as the gender they feel most comfortable.
Group 2: I want to FUCKING kill EVERYONE in group one!
Centrists: Why can’t both sides just see eye to eye already and get along? I am so smart.
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The fact that you even think that “both sides” is a valid argument, means that your opinion is literally worthless.
Because either you are intentionally arguing in bad faith and you know you’re lying, or you actually believe that. Which means you lack the mental capacity to see something objectively.
EDIT: Based on your edit and other comments it’s obvious that you’re one of those people who think that everyone else secretly agrees with you, and when you face backlash like this comment, you think it’s just a few people being reactionary. Because heaven forbid you looked at something objectively or learned something.
My parents are gay. Do you think it’s wrong to “brute force” that they do, indeed, exist and are harmless?
I think the sky is green, and that homeless dude down on the corner agrees with me. But everyone else just insists that the sky is blue and calls me crazy. Why can’t we agree on facts? I know the sky is green so I’m never going to change my mind, but why can’t we just agree? How do we fix that?
The subject at hand is accreditation of a course in psychology,. Tell me how you on one hand call transgenderism a mental illness and on the other refuse to teach - in an AP course - the subject of gender and sexuality. I’d submit there are a number subjects we can “both sides” about, but what’s happening in Florida ain’t it. There’s nothing to be debated here anyway, College Board (may they step on Lego) says if you don’t teach the AP curriculum, you don’t get the credit.
Why would you waste a perfectly good Lego?
I got some thumb tacks I won’t ever use because they’re kinda big and ugly.
Yes, if only there were some kind of systemized method of some sort for approaching scientific questions. Alas…
