St. Patrick’s Day parade cancled in florida because of anti-inclusivity law (DEI)

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I think y’all are missing the possibility that this is malicious compliance. Though DeSantis did not.

    The law is stupid on its face but the way conservatives will see that is something like this.

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      16 hours ago

      It may be malicious compliance, but the law is harsh enough it’s probably not worth risking it even if you like the law and st Patrick’s day. Citizens being able to personally sue government officials is meant to be a distributed and painful means of ensuring compliance even if nearly everyone in an area thinks the law is stupid or shouldn’t be applied in this case. It just takes one resident, that’s why they’ve been using it in red states with blue cities.

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        13 hours ago

        I would not be a good politician but if I ever ran my motto is “Make Florida Freaky Again”, MFFA. The conservatives want to remove everything that makes us who we are. All the gay people, the circus folk, tattoo shops, they talk about the “free state of Florida” but wrecked the freedom that made us, us. Yes ticky tacky but nice and laid back, a place for people who didn’t fit other places. New College is the absolute example of what they did. Took a great school that turned out weird genius ideas and made it a not even good conventional school with football and for some reason they are proud of that.

        This administration - not 100% of what they have done is bad but so much is bad and it’s bad in a particular way that harms the fabric of our society.