Ron DeSantis is a groomer.
Our governor is grooming our youth to be ignorant hate filled bigots – by every means available to him: rampant bullying, violating the first amendment rights of marginalized communities, forcing youth of trans experience out of sports and denying their medical care, and prioritizing the sensibilities of potential, and aspiring Klan members over the truth.
So it's a delicious irony that Republicans are now trying to out groom each other with allies of DeSantis and former President Trump lobbying groomer accusations at one another.
DeSantis is a groomer.
Our governor signed into law the “Stop WOKE Act” prohibiting public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in America’s past.
Our out state Senator Shevrin Jones told the Associated Press last year, “This bill’s not for Blacks, this bill was not for any other race. This was directed to make whites not feel bad about what happened years ago. At no point did anyone say white people should be held responsible for what happened, but what I would ask my white counterparts is, are you an enabler of what happened or are you going to say we must talk about history?”
A judge has put a hold on the law — for now — writing, “This is positively dystopian. It should go without saying that if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
DeSantis is a groomer.
Our governor is now battling with the College Board over an AP course on African American Studies because among other things it had included sections on “queer theory” and “intersectionality.”
DeSantis is a groomer.
Our governor has also targeted books that deal with sexual and gender minorities, and race.
“HB 1467 is now signed into law. This law will allow the most conservative communities the opportunity to censor school libraries throughout the state. FL is a diverse state with large, progressive and inclusive communities. This law is unconstitutional,” The Florida Freedom to Read Project said in a Twitter post.
DeSantis is a groomer.
The governor started his anti-LGBT crusade with the law banning transgender students from playing sports.
“Transgender athletes have the right to participate in school sports. They have a right to find a sense of belonging and to be part of a team. Trans people belong. To prohibit them from doing otherwise is simply unconstitutional,” Kara Gross, legislative director and senior policy counsel for the ACLU, said in a statement at the time.
DeSantis is a groomer.
Our governor’s latest target are Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs at state colleges and universities. He’s on a mission to defund these departments and forever ban them.
DeSantis is a groomer.
Our governor also recently launched a hostile takeover of New College, a tiny liberal arts college in Sarasota, recently appointing a conservative majority on the board of trustees, who quickly ousted the school’s president. One of those new board members spewed anti-LGBT bigotry and has even attacked GSAs for “smuggl[ing] university-style gender theory into more than 4,000 schools.”
DeSantis is a groomer.
DeSantis’ cronies once painted all gays who opposed his draconian "Don’t Say Gay" law as groomers.
Our governor is petty, spiteful and cruel.
But DeSantis isn’t just attempting to groom our youth to be remade in his image, he’s grooming a vast army of right wing trolls.
This rhetoric has consequences and is emboldening hate and violence across the country. According to an article from Vice the far right is now calling for the execution of doctors and teachers.
DeSantis is a groomer.
Hey Ron, how does it feel to be called a groomer?
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