As expected, a US District Court judge here has struck down various provisions of our state, Florida’s Stop WOKE Act. The judge saw the Act, directed against Critical Race Theory as an attack on free speech which the university professors were somehow promoting, even though most of them reject free speech: “Our professors are critical to a healthy democracy, and the State of Florida’s decision to choose which viewpoints are worthy of illumination and which must remain in the shadows has implications for us all,” Walker ruled.
“If our ‘priests of democracy’ are not allowed to shed light on challenging ideas, then democracy will die in darkness,” he added. “But the First Amendment does not permit the State of Florida to muzzle its university professors, impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints and cast us all into the dark.”