Creating the woke mob
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Ron DeSantis wants to be president really badly, and he’s decided that battling the woke mob is his ticket to dethroning Donald Trump as the leader of the ethno-nationalist theocratic authoritarian cult into which Trump’s presidency transformed the Republican party:
If you’ve been keeping up with life in Florida lately, you likely know that Governor Ron DeSantis is on a one-man crusade to turn the place into an uninhabitable hellhole. Thus far, that campaign has included signing the bigoted “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law; banning Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for trans people; firing an elected official for refusing to prosecute pregnant people seeking abortions; going scorched earth on a major company that dared to disagree with him about LGBTQ+ issues; bullying the Special Olympics; and signing the ridiculous “Stop WOKE Act,” which effectively bans schools and private businesses from making white people feel bad about the history of racism in this country. And while there’s little hope for Floridians living under this petty tyrant, on Thursday they got a rare bit of good news when a district judge declared the “Stop WOKE” law a no-go.
In a 44-page ruling, U.S. district judge Mark Walker said that the law regulating race-based conversations is unconstitutional, writing that it violates the First Amendment and, per the Associated Press, is “impermissibly vague.” That vagueness, of course, was no doubt by design. Like the “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, the “Stop WOKE Act” was written in such a way that teachers and businesses could conceivably be sued for just about anything. “It is unclear what is prohibited, and even less clear what is permitted,” Walker wrote, adding: “Imagine an employer, during a mandatory seminar on dispute resolution, cites the civil disobedience exemplified by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi as a peaceful, preferred approach. Has that employer ‘inculcated’ employees with the belief that Black and Asian people are morally superior to white people?” Prior to the legislation being passed by the Florida legislature, Democrats had argued that the bill would bring about frivolous lawsuits and basically equate to censorship. When asked for real-life examples of schools or businesses telling students or employees that they were inherently racist because of the color of their skin, their Republican counterparts could come up with none. “This bill’s not for Blacks, this bill was not for any other race,” State Senator Shevrin Jones said in January. “This was directed to make whites not feel bad about what happened years ago. At no point did anyone say white people should be held responsible for what happened, but what I would ask my white counterparts is, are you an enabler of what happened, or are you going to say we must talk about history?”
A quick bit of lexical empiricism: The phrase “woke mob” does not appear in the Lexis news database prior to 2018. The phrase appeared twice that year, and then 17 times in 2019. In the last two and a half years it has appeared 3,641 times.
“We must fight the woke in our schools. We must fight the woke in our businesses. We must fight the woke in government agencies. We can never ever surrender to woke ideology. And I’ll tell you this, the state of Florida is where woke goes to die,” he continued to cheers from the audience.