So begins a federal
court order striking Trump’s Third Reich-inspired “Stop WOKE” Act in Florida, variations of which have spread through the US like a nasty airborne disease.
Invoking George Orwell’s dystopian novel
1984, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker slammed Stop WOKE, the authoritarian movement
afoot in many US states to forcibly impose the tenets of far right, white nationalism on classrooms, universities, and corporate boardrooms. Since then, a total of 14 states have successfully passed 20 anti-DEI laws, part of Trump’s broader nationwide push;
over 80 anti-DEI bills and hundreds of educational gag orders have been introduced across the country since 2023.
As long as the First Amendment stands, a state cannot “muzzle its university professors, impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints, and cast us all into the dark.”
“It was a bright cold day in April, the clocks were striking thirteen, and the powers in charge of (a State) public university system have declared the State has unfettered authority to muzzle its professors in the name of ‘freedom’….” So begins a federal court order striking Trump’s Third...
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