A lawsuit has been filed in federal court by a group called protect democracy against
Ron DeSantis. Stop woke act, which of course goes into effect, uh, this Friday. So here's the thing
about the stop woke act. This is the piece of legislation that actually makes it illegal, makes
it a crime for a business, for a school, whoever it is, you know, doing any kind of training.
It's a crime. If you make somebody feel guilty
about their racist history here in the state of Florida. So if you're talking about race
issues and the white people start to feel guilty about what white people have done to black people
or native people in the past, you've broken the law here in Florida.
If you're talking about the LGBTQ community and you make straight people feel guilty about
how that community has been treated, you've broken the law here in the state of Florida.
And of course this is massively oppressive. So the group filed the lawsuit seeking to overturn this
legislation. Um, as we've seen from the United States Supreme court in just the last two weeks,
if this were to make it to them, they're gonna uphold it. So that's also terrifying because
that is essentially going to say that, yes, this, this is perfectly legal. Everybody else
you're free to do this as well. Um, which is one reason why, while I do support these lawsuits,
I also, part of me hates these lawsuits because of how rigged our court system is. Like, we all
know how this is gonna end, and it's not gonna work out in the favor of the American people,
but here's the thing about the stop woke act, making these people feel guilty about,
oh, I'm, I'm guilty cuz I'm white and white people have been bad.
That's not actually a problem here in the state of Florida. It's actually not really a problem
anywhere in this country because that's not what people are intentionally doing. If you internalize
guilt after hearing about things that have happened in the past, that's on you,
right? You can't legislate that you can't legislate people's feelings, but Ron DeSantis
thinks he can. Now the real problem here, again, as I say, like, this is addressing a problem that
doesn't exist, but it does create a whole hell of a lot of problems for businesses, for schools, for
all kinds of places here in the state of Florida. Because now they've basically given white people
a get outta jail free card. Anytime they don't want to have to participate in something. They can
just say I'm feeling guilty. Uh, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope. You're violating the stop woke act here.
You can't teach this lesson. You can't send us to this special training that the business
requires for, you know, racial sensitivity or uh, anything like that. You can't do it so ha
I win. That's what this does. And of course it puts the school districts. It
Puts businesses, it puts them on their heels.
So they can't properly teach their employees. You know, their anti-discrimination policies,
which of course are also codified into federal law. So this creates a whole hell of a lot of
problems. It creates problems where none had previously existed and that's the entire point
of this legislation. And again, I'm terrified to think what the court system is gonna do to it.
Once they get their hands on it, I would love for them to strike it down and say, Nope,
this is unconstitutional. It's a violation of freedom of speech. You can't do this,
but I have zero faith in our court system these days. So I'm afraid that if it makes it all the
way to the top, which I know DeSantis will appeal it as far as he can. If he loses,
I'm afraid this theocratic Supreme court is gonna say, yep, this is perfectly legal. Why
don't you go ahead and do this to other red states? That's my big fear from this lawsuit.