A federal judge struck down the “Stop WOKE Act,” Ron DeSantis’s centerpiece attack on progressive academia, as a prima facie violation of the First Amendment. jonathanchait writes
boasts that Florida is “where woke goes to die.” He also likes to call it “the free state of Florida.” If you think carefully about these slogans, which DeSantis’s supporters generally don’t, you might detect a wee contradiction. If Florida is “free,” then all ideas, including “woke” ones, ought to thrive there.
The law forbids schools, universities, and even private businesses from espousing a series of concepts, including the idea that any person is oppressed or privileged because of their race or that anybody should “be discriminated against” in order “to achieve diversity, equity or inclusion.” The court struck down the higher-education portion of this law on the obvious grounds that it prohibits a professor from espousing a certain class of ideas.
“I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.
This isn’t some accidental slipup on DeSantis’s part. He genuinely believes he possesses the legal and moral right to censor ideas expressed by academics. And while the Stop WOKE law has been struck down, DeSantis has succeeded in a more limited effort along the same lines: He has stacked the university system with political cronies and intimidated professors from giving testimony to the legislature that contradicts his positions.
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