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Ron DeSantis is Whitewashing Florida’s Schools. Why?
A humorless demonstration of straight, white, male privilege
I freely admit to being clueless about a human like Ron DeSantis. Dour, humorless, boring, and power hungry; I don’t know his type and that may be subconsciously intentional. The guy is not likeable, in fact he is dislikeable, which is not a word, but apropos.
While obviously running for President, he is methodically taking apart a liberal arts education system that was showing signs of enlightenment before he began his dictatorial cleansing. He is removing anything hinting at being different or showing tolerance for people different from his 1950s worldview.
He has landed on a concept, ‘woke’, that few in his party can even define, except to apply it to everything they don’t like, which is a lot. At this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a MAGA show of love for the orange guy, DeSantis was not present. But his mantra of anti-woke was there in force.
A CNN reporter canvased CPAC attendees about what the made-up word means, and got many answers, all different, but most he talked to struggled to clearly define it. Some version of an anti-white, anti-Christian, liberal elite thing. But this wasn’t DeSantis territory as he and Trump square off for a fight in…