23 May Banning Books
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in April signed the “Stop WOKE” act, which restricts lessons or even mention of possible impacts of race and diversity in schools, particularly anything that discusses privilege or oppression based on race, or whether someone “bears personal responsibility for and must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress” due to U.S. racial history. WOKE in the bill stands for “Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees.”
And so it goes… on May 9, 1933, Helen Keller wrote a letter to the students in Germany who planned on burning all books deemed “un-German,” including Keller’s own work, How I Became a Socialist.
She said “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them…”
So what does this mean for Florida and the greater United States?
And so it goes… but me, I am still just the Dumb Guy.
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