Governor Ron DeSantis has terrorized school boards across Florida, who are afraid to endorse anything to do with racism or gender identity.
In the latest fiasco, the Miami-Dade school board censored a Pulitzer-prize winning play by a Miami author.
DeSantis is a bully and a wannabe fascist.
The story was written by Fabiola Santiago:
I told you, my fellow Cuban Americans, that the censors would get around to us, too.
And they have.
The same afternoon after the Miami-Dade School Board voted to suspend the district’s recognition of national LGBTQ History Month in October, school officials also quietly rejected — via email — the work of one of the most prominent Cuban Americans in U.S. cultural life.
Miami-Dade County Public School’s Division of Academics is refusing to allow high school students to attend — as they have in the past — Miami New Drama’s staging of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work “Anna in the Tropics.” This year’s is the 20th-anniversary presentation of the play.
Why the rejection?
The school district’s not saying.
Is it because Cruz is gay? The district would never say that outright. But after the spectacle of last week’s School Board meeting, at which members were cowed into voting down recognizing LGBTQ History Month by hostile parents and un-Christian-like religious leaders — even the Proud Boys showed up — it’s not too far a leap in logic these days.
MDCPS students have been bused to see this stellar play before. The district should tell them — and the rest of us — what’s changed.
“My work has been staged around the world — and the only place where it has been censored is in Iran,” Cruz, 62, told me in an interview from his Miami home.
Until now — when the first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama, a distinction that, in 2003, also brought prestige to his hometown’s booming literary and theater scenes, appears to have become the latest victim of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ culture wars.
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Stark reminder of Hitler days⦠vg
Western leaders are âdetachedâ from their people and hurting them through incompetence. V Putin
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So now you quote the mass murderer Putin to us! Putin is detached from his people. They don’t want to kill Ukrainians. This is Putin’s egomania.
This censorship is not acceptable.
Iran and Miami.
Wow.
Miranmi
Ruled by the Supreme Miamatollah (aka, Ron DeSantis)
AKA, the Book Nazi:
“No books for you!”
Coming soon to a district near you:
Teacher fatwa.
Could I have a phat woah instead?
Years ago, an education commissioner in Texas called for homosexual (and, one assumes, bisexual) authors to be removed from the state’s textbooks.
I laughed heartily. From Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams, there would be almost no one left. This would make for some pretty skinny literature anthologies.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
Well, I was going to add something, but I guess the point is made
I would add: along the way they came for the teachers, and the nation sat back and watched
I would hope Cubans would be offended by such small minded censorship, but I doubt it. They fled Cuba to make a life in the “land of freedom.” Freedom is a word that is frequently misused by DeSantis. The only version of freedom he respects is his own narrow interpretation of the word. Freedom is in chains in Florida. Women, LGBTQ, democratic public education and school boards, people of color, freedom of speech, and voting rights are all endangered in DeSantis’ Florida.
There are indeed many parallels between DeSantis and Castro.
The primary difference — and the reason many Cubans will probably have no problem with DeSantis — is the religion issue.
Castro effectively outlawed religious practice (especially Catholicism and especially at the beginning) but DeSantis(a Catholic) is implicitly reaffirming and explicitly facilitating religious beliefs (eg, about gays) held by Catholic Cubans.
So many Cubans probably won’t care if he is a fascist, just as long as he is their religious fascist.
People in Florida are free to do what DeSantis wants.
Yesirreee. Come to Flor-uh-duh, whar you kin practise yore freedumb to thank whutever Ron thanks.
Help me RonDa
Help me get ‘,em* outta my school
*LGBTQs
“the only place(s) where it has been censored is in Iran” and now the libertarian theofascist ruled state of Florida.
How many other QAnon thinking, libertarian-theofascist controlled red states will soon follow Iran and Florida’s lead?
The US states are now divided into three groups.
RED states (the extreme opposite of Iran but more dangerous to the US as a country)
BLUE states (that still honor the oath to defend the US Constitution from both foreign and domestics enemies, those RED states.
and a few PURPLE states that haven’t made up their minds about being Red or Blue.
Judge Barbara Lagoa who is a Trump fan and her husband Paul Huck who has close ties to the Federalist Society should take note. Judge Lagoa’s parents came here from Cuba. Lagoa was Trump’s 2nd choice after Barrett, for SCOTUS.
Cuba 2.0
Ron and Fidel
Peas in a pod
Fitting so well
School board applaude