Ron DeSantis' "Stop Woke" act is stopped by Florida judge: "Positively dystopian"

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: Ron DeSantis' "Stop Woke" act is stopped by Florida judge: "Positively dystopian" | Boing Boing

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[Mindysan33]

[milliefink]

@Carla_Sinclair

Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker called DeSantis’s anti-democratic law “positively dystopian,”

It really is dystopian, but I wish he’d used a word that’s actually in the vocabularies of most Republican voters.

[Mindysan33]

Oh, I’ve seen them use dystopian… they just use it to refer to anything that is not white male cisgender control of the country…

[milliefink]

Ugh, yeah. And that’s dystopian too, of course.

[Mangochin]

I’m not sure judges are allowed to say “shitshow” in a decision.

[Mindysan33]

True! They just see it as a utopia, because they get off on hurting others.

[milliefink]

[Akimbo_NOT]

Did they have to define WOKE for the paper work?

[demonfell]

There was always that 1 right wing kid in my college classes that argued with the professor… That’s fine. You can disagree with what you are taught and you may or may not be an idiot. No one needs the State to mandate that certain topics cannot be taught.
These clods are the “snowflakes.”

[jeddak]

Make up your damn mind - are you against censorship or for it?

[HappyHead]

@Carla_Sinclair

“… then democracy will die in darkness.”

Yes, that is the goal. Don’t worry though, this is just a temporary setback, the Republicans will find a way around it soon enough.

[umop_apisdn]

Sadly this is only a speed bump.

@Carla_Sinclair

The governor has often said rulings that halt his legislative priorities are likely to be reversed by appeals courts in Florida that are generally more conservative.

This is the best part of the ruling:

@Carla_Sinclair

As part of Walker’s ruling, he used part of a George Orwell quote from the dystopian classic, 1984, to illustrate Dictator DeSantis’s version of Oceania: “‘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.’”

But Small-D and his mob won’t get it. Orwell is definitely not on their reading list. They’ll just say “Yes, and your problem is what exactly? Oh, and clocks don’t strike thirteen you woke idiot!”

[ZamboniWogglebug]

The assumption is that the Supreme Court will declare this all entirely constitutional on the well-established legal doctrine of “LOLOL fuck you, libtards, we win forever.”

[SpeedRacer]

@Carla_Sinclair

“If our ‘priests of democracy’ are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness.”

I would like to propose we pause long enough to appreciate the power of that sentence.

[RickMycroft]

@Carla_Sinclair

“positively dystopian,”

There it is again! Two words that really don’t fit together.

[umop_apisdn]

@Carla_Sinclair

A Florida judge blocked Gov. Ron DeSantis’s authoritarian “Stop Woke” act again yesterday

You keep using that word.

[IRobot]

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

[Otherbrother]

@milliefink

It really is dystopian, but I wish he’d used a word that’s actually in the vocabularies of most Republican voters.

What, like double-plus-ungood?

Respectfully, I disagree. If those guys want to use a diminished vocabulary and usher in the era of Newspeak we don’t need to give them any help with that.

[GagHalfrunt]

@ZamboniWogglebug

The assumption is that the Supreme Court will declare this all entirely constitutional on the well-established legal doctrine of “LOLOL fuck you, ■■■■■, we win forever.”

Is that originalism or strict constructionism?

/s