“The ideas targeted in Florida’s Individual Freedom Act are embraced in some communities, and despised in others,” the ruling said. “By limiting its restrictions to a list of ideas designated as offensive, the Act targets speech based on its content. And by barring only speech that endorses any of those ideas, it penalizes certain viewpoints – the greatest First Amendment sin.”

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    Anyone that uses “woke” as a pejorative really just wants to say the n-word instead, but don’t think they can get away with it yet.

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      That’s not true at all. Sometimes they mean “gay,” “empowering women,” or “left of Joe Manchin.” Give credit where is due, these people suck way more than you make it sound.

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        (Woke is) the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.

        -Lawyer Ryan Newman, representing Florida man Governor Ron Dipshit.