You know a law is really bad when a federal judge cites a science fiction series on Netflix to describe it.
“Recently, Florida has seemed like a First Amendment upside down,” U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote in an injunction released Thursday blocking key portions of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act.” It bans employers from requiring employees to go through diversity training — or any “required activity” that offends the sensibilities of Republican lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis when it comes to conversations about race.
The “upside down” is the parallel dimension on the show “Stranger Things” that contains a distorted version of our world overrun by alien vines, dark and creepy — a good analogy for what Florida’s political landscape looks like nowadays. It’s a state where the governor professes to defend “freedom” while muzzling detractors and companies that disagree with him.
