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[HappySkeptic]

Cruel Florida governor Ron DeSantis signs ‘Stop WOKE Act’ all but ‘censoring’ LGBT+ issues

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On top of the reviled ‘Don’t Say Gay‘ bill that blocks educators from discussing LGBT+ identities in K-12 schools, DeSantis signed the “Stop WOKE Act” on Friday (22 April) in Hialeah Gardens.

The bill, short for “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees”, heavily restricts how workplaces, schools and colleges can teach about racism, homophobia and other systemic biases.

It bans anyone from discussing how people can be “inherently racist, sexist or oppressive” or that people can be responsible or should feel guilty for historic injustices against people on the same grounds.

Workers will now wield the power to file civil discrimination claims against an employer for discussing or running training sessions on Black history, LGBT+ issues and other injustices.

The Stop WOKE Act was passed by the Florida House in February by a vote of 74-41, with the Florida Senate doing the same the following month by 24-15.

“No one should be instructed to feel as if they are not equal or shamed because of their race,” Ron DeSantis said in a statement on Friday.

“In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces. There is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida.”

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pinknews.co.uk

They should have just called it "The Conservative Safe Space Bill" just more proof it's the right who are the real snowflakes.

The Republicans are making a smart political play.

They take whatever faux outrage thing that's trending on right-wing media.  They create a bill to "stop" something that isn't really happening, but can be defended as being reasonable.  Then, they add a few "unreasonable" provisions.  When the left speaks out against the unreasonable parts, the Republicans tout the reasonable parts and point the Left as being radical.

They can do this all day, and brand the Left in the eyes of their supporters.

I'm surprised they haven't come out with a bill that makes it illegal for pizza parlors to have child sex trafficking rings in their basements.  Entirely idiotic, but "reasonable".  Then, they add a provision to ban basements entirely in pizza parlors.  Then the left speaks out against the "no basements bill", and the Right says "why does the Left want their sex trafficking basements?".