Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ commits a ‘First Amendment sin,’ appeals court says in ruling that blocks part of the bill

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Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ commits a ‘First Amendment sin,’ appeals court says in ruling that blocks part of the bill | CNN Politics
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“The ideas targeted in Florida’s Individual Freedom Act are embraced in some communities, and despised in others,” the ruling said. “By limiting its restrictions to a list of ideas designated as offensive, the Act targets speech based on its content. And by barring only speech that endorses any of those ideas, it penalizes certain viewpoints – the greatest First Amendment sin.”

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Anyone that uses "woke" as a pejorative really just wants to say the n-word instead, but don't think they can get away with it yet.

That's not true at all. Sometimes they mean "gay," "empowering women," or "left of Joe Manchin." Give credit where is due, these people suck way more than you make it sound.

(Woke is) the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.

-Lawyer Ryan Newman, representing Florida man Governor Ron Dipshit.

That sounds like a pretty woke definition. Burn him?

Turns out, you can lie all you want in the court of public opinion, but you can't lie at all in the court of law.