>“We look at woke infiltrating schools as a problem, woke infiltrating bureaucracies as a problem and woke infiltrating corporate America as a problem. We say that Florida is where woke goes to die.”
This is pathetic
Anyone who unironically tries to pass off comments about “woke” as genuine criticism is a bigot who’s not worth the time of day.
DeSantis policies are hateful and harmful, it’s disgraceful that someone like that could be a contender in future US presidential elections. Sadly though as seen with Trump and the Tories here right wingers are all in on culture war bullshit.
Sad to say but the average right wing person in the UK wont get how bad/evil a man he is. The guy is very much within the fascism sphere in all but name and will happily abuse his position to attack anyone in revenge tactics (see his use of political power against Disney because they condemned his recent anti gay/trans laws).
The guy is a bigot book burning fascist. And no, it isnt just “hur dur throwing words”, the guys actions are that of fascist groups.
Woke is a fake war and a distraction… cost of living crisis is the real war.
They are only trying to stoke this shit to avoid the real problems global conservatism have caused all over the world. Kemi Badenoch is utterly useless as a trade secretary and couldn’t run a whelk stall.
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If you use the word woke in any way as part of your policy your a joke and/or you are using it to justify your nasty and nefarious ajenda.
Ron DeSantis looks like he should be hawking secondhand clapped out trucks, or a tupperware middle-man.
Well, to be fair, he is just returning the compliment:
> Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been listed as a keynote speaker at a radical right-wing conference [on 13-15May]
> The NatCon Conference …is an initiative designed to support the Conservative Nationalism movement. The group’s Statement of Principles includes demands for nations to be governed on the basis of “humility and gratitude before God and fear of his judgment”
> Speakers at previous events have included the Hungarian Prime Minister, and autocrat, Viktor Orban, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
> Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has been named as a keynote speaker alongside Michael Gove MP, while other speakers include Miriam Cates MP, Danny Kruger MP, Lord David Frost and John Hayes MP, chair of the Common Sense Group of MPs, whose US links have previously been reported on by Byline Times.
> The final keynote speaker is Keven Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, one of the key institutions of the US radical right.
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EDIT: I get why this post is getting downvoted. It’s abhorrent and it sucks. But people *need to see it*. Please don’t bury it, let it be seen so people can stop hiding behind “we didn’t know” as an excuse for apathetically watching the genocide play out
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It feels like a pretty major red flag that our equalities minister is meeting with someone openly anti-equality.
A few choice quotes that really do raise concerns about how much we seem to be importing the “anti-woke” nonsense from the US, and their increasingly genocidal rhetoric around trans issues.
> One of DeSantis’ principal policies has been to wage war in Florida on the relatively new but increasingly hegemonic set of ideologies usually described as “woke”, including critical race theory. The father-of-three has also banned gender transition treatment for minors. I ask him why that fight matters so much to him and why he disagrees with the so-called social justice warriors, proponents of cancel culture and other “progressives” who now yield so much power over Western institutions.
> “Woke ideology undermines merit and achievement. It is really a war on the truth. When institutions get infected by woke ideology, it really corrupts the institutions.”
NB before someone chimes in that we “shouldnt be giving surgery to minors”, we’re not. Treatment means anything, florida is trying to outlaw even presenting the “wrong” gender/sex
> On his trip to Britain, he met James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, and Kemi Badenoch, the Business and Trade Secretary who is also in charge of Equalities. His discussion with the latter included her war on woke, which he enthusiastically supports. Gender-neutral lavatories and the decolonisation of school curricula are among issues against which the former Tory leadership candidate, 43, has campaigned.
Gender neutral bathrooms are the real issue this country should be concerned with right now. Please ignore the dead cat.
> I ask him how the meeting went. “She complimented what we are doing in Florida. She committed that it is what they are trying to do in Britain.
Open, explicit admission that she wants to import their increasingly fascistic rhetoric. Florida is literally at the point of kidnapping trans kids from their parents, and our EQUALITIES MINISTER wants to try and copy them…
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>“We look at woke infiltrating schools as a problem, woke infiltrating bureaucracies as a problem and woke infiltrating corporate America as a problem. We say that Florida is where woke goes to die.”
This is pathetic
Anyone who unironically tries to pass off comments about “woke” as genuine criticism is a bigot who’s not worth the time of day.
DeSantis policies are hateful and harmful, it’s disgraceful that someone like that could be a contender in future US presidential elections. Sadly though as seen with Trump and the Tories here right wingers are all in on culture war bullshit.
Sad to say but the average right wing person in the UK wont get how bad/evil a man he is. The guy is very much within the fascism sphere in all but name and will happily abuse his position to attack anyone in revenge tactics (see his use of political power against Disney because they condemned his recent anti gay/trans laws).
The guy is a bigot book burning fascist. And no, it isnt just “hur dur throwing words”, the guys actions are that of fascist groups.
Woke is a fake war and a distraction… cost of living crisis is the real war.
They are only trying to stoke this shit to avoid the real problems global conservatism have caused all over the world. Kemi Badenoch is utterly useless as a trade secretary and couldn’t run a whelk stall.
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If you use the word woke in any way as part of your policy your a joke and/or you are using it to justify your nasty and nefarious ajenda.
Ron DeSantis looks like he should be hawking secondhand clapped out trucks, or a tupperware middle-man.
Well, to be fair, he is just returning the compliment:
[Suella Braverman to Address Radical ‘National Conservatism’ Event With Ties to US Right](https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/05/suella-braverman-to-address-radical-national-conservatism-event-with-ties-to-us-right/)
> Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been listed as a keynote speaker at a radical right-wing conference [on 13-15May]
> The NatCon Conference …is an initiative designed to support the Conservative Nationalism movement. The group’s Statement of Principles includes demands for nations to be governed on the basis of “humility and gratitude before God and fear of his judgment”
> Speakers at previous events have included the Hungarian Prime Minister, and autocrat, Viktor Orban, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
> Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has been named as a keynote speaker alongside Michael Gove MP, while other speakers include Miriam Cates MP, Danny Kruger MP, Lord David Frost and John Hayes MP, chair of the Common Sense Group of MPs, whose US links have previously been reported on by Byline Times.
> The final keynote speaker is Keven Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, one of the key institutions of the US radical right.
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EDIT: I get why this post is getting downvoted. It’s abhorrent and it sucks. But people *need to see it*. Please don’t bury it, let it be seen so people can stop hiding behind “we didn’t know” as an excuse for apathetically watching the genocide play out
—
It feels like a pretty major red flag that our equalities minister is meeting with someone openly anti-equality.
A few choice quotes that really do raise concerns about how much we seem to be importing the “anti-woke” nonsense from the US, and their increasingly genocidal rhetoric around trans issues.
> One of DeSantis’ principal policies has been to wage war in Florida on the relatively new but increasingly hegemonic set of ideologies usually described as “woke”, including critical race theory. The father-of-three has also banned gender transition treatment for minors. I ask him why that fight matters so much to him and why he disagrees with the so-called social justice warriors, proponents of cancel culture and other “progressives” who now yield so much power over Western institutions.
> “Woke ideology undermines merit and achievement. It is really a war on the truth. When institutions get infected by woke ideology, it really corrupts the institutions.”
NB before someone chimes in that we “shouldnt be giving surgery to minors”, we’re not. Treatment means anything, florida is trying to outlaw even presenting the “wrong” gender/sex
> On his trip to Britain, he met James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, and Kemi Badenoch, the Business and Trade Secretary who is also in charge of Equalities. His discussion with the latter included her war on woke, which he enthusiastically supports. Gender-neutral lavatories and the decolonisation of school curricula are among issues against which the former Tory leadership candidate, 43, has campaigned.
Gender neutral bathrooms are the real issue this country should be concerned with right now. Please ignore the dead cat.
> I ask him how the meeting went. “She complimented what we are doing in Florida. She committed that it is what they are trying to do in Britain.
Open, explicit admission that she wants to import their increasingly fascistic rhetoric. Florida is literally at the point of kidnapping trans kids from their parents, and our EQUALITIES MINISTER wants to try and copy them…