05/26/2023
The Social Justice Warriors are already arming and mobilizing against DeSantis.
Last Saturday, for example, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People issued a formal travel advisory to people who take the NAACP seriously — I suppose there must be some people who do. Quotes from that advisory:
Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals … Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.
NAACP issues shock travel advisory against visiting Florida as it accuses the Sunshine State of being 'openly hostile' to black and LGBTQ Americans under Ron DeSantis: GOP Governor says 'what a joke' Daily Mail, May 26, 2023
That is all in reaction to executive and legislative initiatives Governor DeSantis has taken on issues of race and sex: blocking AP African American Studies in Florida public schools, banning the state’s public colleges from spending money on DEI programs, and so on.
In other words, DeSantis doesn’t think Florida taxpayers should be funding wokery, sexual confusion, and academic pseudo-disciplines. If you want to study those things, fine, but don’t ask normal people to pay for them.
If the NAACP advisory does have any effect, I should think the state’s beach communities will be grateful. Florida’s beaches are of course a favorite destination for college students on Spring Break. It is by no means unusual for the beach scene to turn nasty.
Samples, from an Associated Press report on Miami’s South Beach in March 2021:
With more than 1,000 arrests and nearly 100 gun seizures already during this year’s spring break season, officials are thinking it may finally be time to cleanse the hip neighborhood of its law-breaking, party-all-night vibe.
The move comes after years of increasingly stringent measures — banning alcohol from beaches, canceling concerts and food festivals — have failed to stop the city from being overrun with out-of-control parties and anything-goes antics.
This weekend alone, spring breakers and pandemic-weary tourists drawn by Florida’s loose virus-control rules gathered by the thousands along famed Ocean Drive, at times breaking into street fights, destroying restaurant property and causing several dangerous stampedes. The situation got so out of hand that Miami Beach Police brought in SWAT teams to disperse pepper bullets and called in law enforcement officers from at least four other agencies. Ultimately, the city decided to order an emergency 8 p.m. curfew that will likely extend well into April after the spring break season is over.
Miami’s South Beach confronts disastrous spring break, March 22, 2021
From the news pictures that accompany stories like that it looks as though the fighting, property destruction, and stampedes mostly involve … colored people, as in "National Association for the Advancement of." The news agencies may of course be suppressing pictures that show white supremacists engaging in Spring Break riots, but … I doubt it.
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