public schools in a pre k through eight great. a new measure that expands this bill was just passed by the republican state legislature last may. it restricts the way teachers and students can use their own preferred pronouns in school. we are about a half step away from the thought police at this point. ron desantis wants to expand it from florida to the rest of the country as he runs for president. his agenda and tactics are not original. long before rhonda scent has declared his war on wokeness, back in the 1950s and 1960s, a group of florida lawmakers battled with the end w acp and got these lawmakers, like desantis, disrupted life for countless floridians and hurt their own careers because they were so caught up in the cause. i happen to know all of this because my msnbc colleagues rachel maddow and isaac davy harrison have launched a new podcast called déjà news that reminds us of the forgotten
hosted a muslim father who was disgusted by the and cultural that was mandated in maryland.at publiced in schools. well, the segment was fascinating, but it set of af a media firestorm. like what? well, fearful, of course, that ther. ful thate grip on a once secure voting base was at risk. wellin, the liberals triedis to rush in to make sense of it. semaphore noting the gop s new muslim outreach with a picture from our interview. days later, the new york times michelle goldberg warned that the issue was e was, quote, crec space for strange new politicali bedfellows. now political arsonist wajahat alst wi was indignant.ght the political writes exhausting and crue is l war on wokeness is now aligning with some efforts of some muslim advanced to attack the lgbtq community unde r guise of protecting religious freedoms and parental rights. well, the goal is obvious, right? make sure to intimidate these muslim parents into silence. well, todatoday,y they were bact
so, you re not going to win the nomination. the biden campaign and democrats are basically saying, look, we think we can beat desantis. they re going to attack him for what they believe are extreme policies. they cite the abortion ban, they cite his book bans and his war on wokeness, and the situation now where amanda gorman s poet that she read at the presidential inauguration has been thrown out of a library and these are some of the thing he s going to be attacked on. do they have a good platform to go after him? i think certainly there s a legitimate conversation about what our students are being taught. what age is appropriate to read earnest hemingway s up in michigan and recognizing that a poem by amanda gorman or a book about jackie robinson should be in libraries and should be taught, but when republicans launched this war on wokeness as
if you won t do what i say, get out. if you won t raise your kids how i say, we ll take your kids. if you want to wear a mask, i ll rip it off your kid in front of you in a news conference. what is he doing? i think first, he kind of misunderstood what happened with his re-election. i think his kind of opening the schools, his opposition to covid restrictions was popular, the kind of quote slosh unquote freedom agenda for better or worse, but he mistook that support for being kind of support for a full-on war on wokeness, and he s made anti-wokeness the center of his governorship. he always says, florida is where woke goes to die. it s why he s put so much energy into attacking new college and transforming new college, this school with less than 700 kids, has become this major policy obsession of his. and i think that he s so deep in