Governor Ron DeSantis legalizes "Doublethink"

Opinion echo letter: Doublethink* on indoctrination. 

By Dale Gerboth published in the Anchorage Daily News:

Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law what he has branded the “Stop WOKE Act,” which restricts how race is discussed in schools, colleges and workplaces, and sparked a nationwide debate over censorship, critical race theory. (Tallahassee Democrat)

If the German far-right passed laws forbidding schools from teaching about the horrific crimes of Nazism, because such teaching causes anguish and guilt in German children, condemnation would be immediate and worldwide.

Likewise, Americans should condemn Florida’s Stop Woke Act.

Governor Ron DeSantis promotes banning the teaching of concepts that suggest that “a person, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, bears personal responsibility for and must feel guilt, anguish or other forms of psychological distress because of actions, in which the person played no part, committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, national origin, or sex.”

Proponents of such laws claim they free schools from indoctrination. In the immortal word of Barnstable Bear, “Rowrbazzle!”

Indoctrination does not come from allowing the free flow of ideas. Indoctrination comes from banning ideas. 

To ban authors and concepts and call it freedom is straight out of George Orwell’s dystopia.

George Orwell (1903-1950)

From — Dale Gerboth in Anchorage Alaska

* Acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination. Examples of doublethink:
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength—are examples.  Act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct.