Axios: Where Activist Talking Points Are Laundered Faster and Smarter

I am told the purpose of the website Axios is to inform news junkies about current affairs without taking up much of their time. But, if it is, Axios is doing a pretty lousy job of it. Take, by way of example, this piece on Florida’s decision to pull an AP African American studies course because, inter alia, it smuggles in a bunch of contemporary progressive propaganda, implies that color-blindness is akin to racism, and features a section on queer theory in violation of state rules.

The story here is that Florida has rejected one AP course as a result of that content. It is not, as some critics have claimed, that the state has decided that African-American history will not be taught in Florida at all, or that Florida has banned AP African-American studies in toto. The very same law that the course contravened requires that students in Florida are taught about slavery, segregation, oppression, legal discrimination, and more. It does not allow them to be used as vehicles for radicalism. One might like that, or one might hate it, but that is the key fact of the affair, and it should be included as prominently as possible in any story that is not intended to mislead.

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior editor at National Review and the host of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.

I am told the purpose of the website Axios is to inform news junkies about current affairs without taking up much of their time. But, if it is, Axios is doing a pretty lousy job of it. Take, by way of example, this piece on Florida’s decision to pull an AP African American studies course because, inter alia, it smuggles in a bunch of contemporary progressive propaganda, implies that color-blindness is akin to racism, and features a section on queer theory in violation of state rules.

The story here is that Florida has rejected one AP course as a result of that content. It is not, as some critics have claimed, that the state has decided that African-American history will not be taught in Florida at all, or that Florida has banned AP African-American studies in toto. The very same law that the course contravened requires that students in Florida are taught about slavery, segregation, oppression, legal discrimination, and more. It does not allow them to be used as vehicles for radicalism. One might like that, or one might hate it, but that is the key fact of the affair, and it should be included as prominently as possible in any story that is not intended to mislead.