Posted on 11/17/2022 2:52:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida on Thursday blocked a law pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in colleges.
Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a temporary injunction against the so-called “Stop Woke” act in a ruling that called the legislation “positively dystopian.”
The law prohibits teaching or business practices that contend members of one ethnic group are inherently racist and should feel guilt for past actions committed by others. It also bars the notion that a person’s status as privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by their race or gender, or that discrimination is acceptable to achieve diversity.
“Our professors are critical to a healthy democracy, and the State of Florida’s decision to choose which viewpoints are worthy of illumination and which must remain in the shadows has implications for us all,” Walker wrote. “If our ‘priests of democracy’ are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness.
The ruling is at least a temporary setback to the powerful Republican governor’s agenda to combat what he describes as the “woke ideology” of liberals and critical race theory, a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism. DeSantis won a landslide reelection to a second term this month after a campaign that focused heavily on cultural issues.
In his lengthy ruling, Walker quoted from George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” writing “‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,’ and the powers in charge of Florida’s public university system have declared the State has unfettered authority to muzzle its professors in the name of ‘freedom.’”
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He’s a piece of garbage and needs to go. This will move forward.
Almost walker always overturned
“Our professors are critical to a healthy democracy, and the State of Florida’s decision to choose which viewpoints are worthy of illumination and which must remain in the shadows has implications for us all,” Walker wrote. “If our ‘priests of democracy’ are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness.”
Bullshit. They’re brainwashing our kids and parents are fed up. They’re not your kids. FU activist judge.
As for Mark Walker:
“Our professors are critical to a healthy democracy, and the State of Florida’s decision to choose which viewpoints are worthy of illumination and which must remain in the shadows has implications for us all,” Walker wrote. “If our ‘priests of democracy’ are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness.
In his lengthy ruling, Walker quoted from George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” writing “‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,’ and the powers in charge of Florida’s public university system have declared the State has unfettered authority to muzzle its professors in the name of ‘freedom.’”
Priests of Democracy? Maybe Walker is more in need of a psychiatrist rather than an appeal.
Throw that racist judge out! How dare he equate darkness with dying and light with goodness! Use their own stupid concepts against them. If they wanna get nuts, then let’s get nuts.
As I think about it I’m surprised he used that kind of language because that’s exactly what the wokester dufusses hop on.
Yup. Obama is the gift that keeps on giving. That malignant narcissist help create many problems in the US.
FundaMENTALly delusional Mark Walker PING.
“ If our ‘priests of democracy’ are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness”
A JUDGE wrote that???
We kept our kids out of public school for 90% of their education. It was well worth the cost.
Ignore him/her/it.
The Washington Post slogan, of how democracy dies in darkness, is part of the language of a federal court ruling???
Really?
“priests of democracy”?
This judge is a lunatic.
Wow. I’m a little disappointed: he squeezed so many leftist catch phrases in his opinion. Couldn’t he have gotten a reference to the Handmaid’s Tale in, too? Next time
Why do republicans even listen to these judges? Ignore and move on
“If our ‘priests of democracy’ are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas...”
Hey judge: professors aren’t priests of democracy. They’re employees.
Take a cue from the Department of Education and use the financial stick option. If woke school boards don’t toe the line, they lose some of their funding.
I wonder how this judge feels about hate speech laws. I guess it depends on whose hate speech it is. Projecting hate speech towards whites in the class is perfectly fine with this judge.
But, God forbid, historical cultural deficiencies are discussed about other POC races in the class and expect the sheriff to show up
But it’s not dystopian to ban COVID speech you don’t like and fire even government employees over not getting an EUC vaccine?
I don’t think so.
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