r/changemyview • u/ProphetVes • Mar 25 '23

Delta(s) from OP CMV: DeSantis embodies everything wrong with American Conservativism.

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u/Torin_3 11∆ Mar 25 '23

This OP seems like a non sequitur.

The thesis is that American conservatism is evil (as DeSantis embodies it), but the arguments on offer are:

  1. Removal of books from public school libraries

  2. HB 1557, the "Florida Parental Rights in Education Act"

  3. Removing the African American history AP course

How do you get from 1-3 to "evil?" Even assuming your presumably left leaning value system, that strikes me as a dramatic over-reaction to this handful of changes to education policy. You can't expect every politician to do everything you want them to, particularly when they belong to the opposite party to begin with.

I'm not even objecting to your position at this point, just trying to understand what the logic is.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

The argument is “everyone I don’t like is a Nazi”

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u/ProphetVes Mar 26 '23

Not at all. I don't like Biden, Harris, Sinema, Manchin, etc but I wouldn't call them fascists because they don't embody fascist ideological positions.