Florida classroom bookshelves left empty as education reform law goes into effect

"I don't want my kids reading books that make them feel bad about being big and bad." #160
Purity has simple appeal.
But the U.S. / West is less laissez-faire than we may wish to acknowledge. Book-banning / literary restrictions the obvious example here.

We don't want triple X pornography in our public school libraries. So Democrat's preference in restrictions are OK, but Republican's not?

What is the objective standard? How do we get both parties to embrace & apply it?
 
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"We must fight the woke in government agencies. We can never, ever surrender to woke ideology." Florida Governor DeSantis
If you are that emphatic Governor, it must be a formidable danger. What precisely is this "woke ideology" you warn us of?

woke (wōk)
adj. wok·er, wok·est
Slang
Aware of the injustice of the social system in which one lives: “The phenomenon of being woke is a cultural push to challenge problematic norms, systemic injustices and the overall status quo through complete awareness” (Raven Cras).
[African American Vernacular English, past participle of wake, to wake; see WAKE1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
You are a disgrace Governor.
Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- inspired by Proverbs 17:28
Too late Ronny. The truth is out.
 
If you are that emphatic Governor, it must be a formidable danger. What precisely is this "woke ideology" you warn us of?

Why ‘wokeness’ has become the latest battlefront for white conservatives in America

 
Why ‘wokeness’ has become the latest battlefront for white conservatives in America #164

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned Fox News viewers “the woke mind virus is basically a form of cultural Marxism.”
Marx·ism (märksĭz′əm)
n.
The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
In your false Marxism analogy governor, you present yourself as representative of the proletariat?

DeSantis' groundless accusations bear recognizable characteristics of propaganda. He's demonizing constructive awareness. Doesn't that usefully define Governor DeSantis' [R-FL] political ideology? An advocate for being uninformed?
 

Florida Introduces 10 New Laws for 2025

Story by Ewan Palmer

A new year brings new laws, and several are set to take effect in Florida on January 1, 2025.

At least 10 new laws will be introduced in the Sunshine State at the start of the year, including measures to restrict social media use for children, protect first responders on duty, and reform the management of ...

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The social media restrictions are likely in violation of the First Amendment (and definitely run afoul of the GOP insistence that parents should make the decisions) but the interesting one relates to First Responders - no idea if First Responders are subject to a lot of harassment/danger or if this is really intended to stop the public from seeing what the police et al are doing (remember George Floyd's murder was originally reported as someone suffering a medical event and, if it hadn't been for someone filming what happened it would have been completely swept under the carpet)

Once warned, individuals must not approach within 25 feet of a first responder performing their duties.
 

Florida Introduces 10 New Laws for 2025

"The social media restrictions are likely in violation of the First Amendment" S2 #168
Could be, particularly if inflicted on adults.
But there are countless examples of "children", those that have not yet reached the age of legal emancipation, being treated as second-class citizens.
They're not allowed to vote, to drink, to buy tobacco, to get a driver's license, etc.

The simple thing for sear to do @CV is to reflexively insult the free speech infringement, and feel good about feeling bad. BUT:
Stats I've read of children's smart-phone usage habits align with preexisting definitions of addiction. And when extended cellphone access is suddenly suspended, symptoms akin to drug withdrawal have been known to occur.
Further, there are indications social media operators deliberately design their formats to hook users, deliberately dominating their attention.

Tossing our children to the wolves in the name of free speech may bear the superficial appearance of a noble cause.
That certainly is NOT an endorsement of whatever statutory jalopy DeSantis' paradise has slapped together.
It's grudging acknowledgement some action may be appropriate to protect children from $Billionaires like Elon Musk.
"(and definitely run afoul of the GOP insistence that parents should make the decisions)" S2 #168
Bulls Eye !
Not only on target, but right in the center of the small red dot.

Hmmm
Political hypocrisy in the GOP. That's certain to make headlines. right?

"Once warned, individuals must not approach within 25 feet of a first responder performing their duties." #168
Was officer Chauvin "performing" his "duties" when he murdered Floyd?
If that's the restriction then there is no restriction, for if the suspect first responder is committing murder, that's not "performing their duties", and thus the 25 feet exclusion standard does not apply. right? We'll have to review the statutory language to resolve that issue.

Many such cameras used for this purpose may be cellphone cameras, suited to selfies literally at arm's length. A 25 foot exclusion zone would tend to minimize the utility of whatever image was captured. How "convenient" for the government employees colluding with these homicidal public "servants" (executioners).
 
Finland is woke.
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant". Louis D. Brandeis
Thanks to S2 #170 we can see the misery self-sufficiency inflicts on children by observing their facial expressions.
 
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