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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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75 years ago, maybe? But today? They are antithetical to it. They are a huge part of the problem. Beside the fact it's a Constitutional Republic
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I had penciled in “judges” along with the FBI, Democrats, DOJ, media, RINOs, etc., as domestic terrorists. I am now going to do judges in indelible ink like the rest of them.
Published Feb. 2, 2018
Judge Mark Walker and Gov. Rick Scott simply weren’t made for each other. Walker, the federal judge who invalidated Florida’s right to vote scheme for felons as arbitrary and discriminatory, didn’t mince words in his landmark decision.
In a 43-page ruling, Walker called Scott’s logic on voting rights “nonsensical.” He used an assertion Scott made at one clemency board meeting — “We can do whatever we want” — to support his premise that Florida’s system is unconstitutionally arbitrary.
He made passing references to fine wine, Space Mountain and a favorite team, the Florida Gators.
this will be overturned. The states have every right to dictate what is taught in state schools.
This.
Just like when Biden completely ignored the Supreme Court and continued his eviction moratorium in direct violation of their ruling.
And absolutely nothing happened.
Federal law prohibits race shaming in federally funded education situations I believe.
At least he got the Gators correct…
“The states have every right to dictate what is taught in state schools.”
And the parents have every right to dictate what is taught in state schools. They are paying for it!
Yeah, "conversations and analysis". KMA
Woke is an evil that deserves 1st A protection. The 1stA is a double-edged sword.
Who could have guessed? Grrrrrrrrr…
Good luck De Santis. Hope you prevail.
Hey, YOU were the one that moved down there!
;-)
The test SCOTUS uses in these cases is whether the legislature passed it and the guv signed it.
If they did, DeSantis wins.
The judge is on crack.
By the judges absurd and personally influenced ruling... he is actually negating; interfering with democracy.
The judge is an activist and needs to be removed.
I am so sick of being g ruled by these black robed NAZIS
Yeah, I did. But that doesn’t mean I want a Maryland-mentality* judge down here with me.
*Communist, of course, not you and other good Marylanders.
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