The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
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    Did you know that in the worst case sea level scenario due to climate change, all of Florida will be completely underwater? That means that while the world IS headed toward an inhospitable hellscape, at least we have the silver lining of seeing Florida completely eradicated.

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      You’re not thinking this through. Every Florida man alive will flee to dry land. Florida is a people, not a place.

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        That would entail admitting that climate change is real and that GQP mythos was wrong about something. Based on the way we handled covid, I wouldn’t worry about most floridians migrating due to climate change

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          So basically deny it’s happening until the water is up to their necks, then start talking about the importance of boats while they drown?

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            listen, Florida is more than a set of policy decisions by pudding fingers, Florida is a state of mind.

            I assure you, Ohio residents are equally batshit. I live in Erie, PA and deal with them regularly.

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      Did you know that most voters in Florida don’t agree with this shit and that taking glee in the potential eradication of an entire people and their home is exactly the same kind of shit that racists do when they blame all Muslims for terrorism or Hitler and the Nazis did when they targeted a population for their religion (or for simply being related to someone who was a Jew)?

      The examples of this “they’re the bad guys” generalism is part of the problem. If you’re really so enlightened, don’t be part of the problem, too, it only alienates more who might be part of solving the problem if they weren’t ostracized over something as stupid as their birthplace or where they choose to live.

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        DeSantis won his last election by the largest margin in a Florida election in over 40 years

        If this isn’t what people there want, they’ve got a very strange way of showing it.

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        I mean they voted for the people that do this stuff. Just by nature of how voting works, a majority of them likely agree.

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        “Floridian” is not “a people” in the sense you’re trying to use the word, and if someone wants to stick around while the ocean slowly swallows up the panhandle, that’s their business.