Looks like Florida has finally realized that "stopping wokeness" equates to losing a hell of a lot of the freedoms they claim to care about.
For some reason, the archive sites aren't working for me, so I'll ss the article below for those who hit a paywall
Bonus: one way to bypass many paywalls on a cell phone is to put your phone on airplane mode as soon as you open an article 😉
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/09/desantis-florida-woke-culture-wars-legislature/
There's a ss that is refusing to post, no matter how many things I've done to fix it. Here's the text:
_Tired_of_woke_
Parents in Miami-Dade County founded Moms for Libros last year as an antidote to Moms for Liberty, the Florida-based group promoted by DeSantis.
The founders of Moms for Libros — Moms for Books — say they got together to battle what they see as censorship in schools.
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Their ranks have grown in the past year, and they say their messages — promoted in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole — are resonating even with parents who initially supported DeSantis’s education bills.
“A lot of the conservative Cuban American parents I talk to say they thought it was just about keeping sex out of schools,” said Vanessa Brito, co-founder of Moms For Libros.
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“But when they learn what was really happening, like when they heard that a book about Celia Cruz was taken off the shelves, they are very concerned. Having the government come in and tell you that your kids can’t have a book about Celia Cruz, that caused an uproar.”
The book, “Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa,” was temporarily removed from Duval County schools last year.
(hopefully back to the ss now...)
@ExecutiveFunction404 if I was to post a gift link to it would you feel good or bad about that?
@ExecutiveFunction404 Can do!
DeSantis faces pushback in Florida as voters tire of war on woke
Thanks so much! @peeppeepcircus came through with the archive link & @Superstitionsee posted up a gift link earlier (sorry you had to waste one, I can gift a NYT article for the waste, if you don't have a subscription to that 😊)
@ExecutiveFunction404 @rpardee @peeppeepcircus no problem, my pleasure 🙂
@rpardee
Please do! I can't post ss now & it saves me so much time 😂