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/
Screenshots of above wapo article regarding the resurgence of "woke", as floridians learn they were just pawns in the astroturfed culture wars:
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.
Cont'd:
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.
Cont'd:
“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...)
Screenshots aren't posting anymore & I don't have time to copy/paste the whole article. I hope you can read it somehow. It's a great article.
Sorry guys 🤷♀️
@ExecutiveFunction404 if I was to post a gift link to it would you feel good or bad about that?
Please do! I can't post ss now & it saves me so much time 😂
@ExecutiveFunction404 Can do!
DeSantis faces pushback in Florida as voters tire of war on woke
@ExecutiveFunction404 @rpardee @peeppeepcircus no problem, my pleasure 🙂
@rpardee
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 😊)