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New Florida law allows students to record lectures in effort to protect against "conservative discrimination"

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lgbtqnation.com said:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed legislation that will require university and college students, faculty, and administration to declare their political views to ensure the institutions aren’t “indoctrinating” children into liberal “ideology.”
Governor DeSantis said:
“As the governor said, we are at great risk, as a nation and as a state, on the lack of intellectual diversity that is on our university campuses,” state House Speaker Chris Sprowls (R) said. “We have decided that one ideological standard will win the day, but the thing is we’re losing because we’re not having real conversations.”
lgbtqnation.com said:
DeSantis claimed he was promoting “intellectual diversity” by signing the bill approximately two weeks after the State Board of Education banned the teaching of critical race theory in public schools at his request.
 
Does shitty ideology go good with Pepsi?


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The Atlantic had an article on this subject last year.

If confronted with that view they identified as most objectionable, how appropriate would it be to take a series of actions, such as asking a tough question, publishing a dissent, or more extreme measures? An alarming 25.5 percent of survey respondents said it would be appropriate to “create an obstruction, such that a campus speaker endorsing this idea could not address an audience.” This authoritarian view was held by about 19 percent of self-identifying liberals, 3 percent of moderates, and 3 percent of conservatives.
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Also troubling were the undergraduates who reported having kept an opinion to themselves in the classroom, even though the opinion was related to the class, because they were worried about the potential consequences of expressing it. Almost 68 percent of conservatives censored themselves in this way, along with roughly 49 percent of moderates and 24 percent of liberals.

Expressing unpopular views “can reveal critical blind spots in prevailing thought patterns,” the authors of the report note, and even when a view is wrong, its refutation allows both parties “to better apprehend why the correct view must be true.” But “a substantial proportion of respondents fear social sanction, or even outright grading penalties, for sharing their views.” What’s more, almost a quarter of conservative students reported being more than slightly concerned that peers would file a complaint against them for speech related to a class they are in together.
 
I seriously don't know WTF the point of this is, other than political grandstanding. College kids have been recording lectures ever since tape recorders were invented. Has it ever been illegal or even frowned upon by any institute of higher education?
 
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Hasn't it always been legal to record lectures? I know of no university rules forbidding students having recording devices in lectures. More manufactured outrage being used to create nonexistent problems for them the create "solutions" for.
 
So this only goes one way? If you’re a conservative being subjected to liberalism it’s fine, but if you’re a liberal being subjected to conservative views you’re out of luck? Seems like that’s not true and it’s just being used as political speech.
 
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