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There is a word that snuck into our language a few years ago, especially in the political language. That word is Woke. It is defined as alert to, and concerned about, injustice and discrimination. Now, that is of course not a bad thing. It’s good. Everybody should be concerned about injustice and discrimination, but people like Ron DiSantis, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and others on the extreme, mostly Republican, right have taken it into a racist, homophobic, and bigoted direction.

DiSantis has gone as far as banning books in schools, even banning an AP course that teaches our American history, and introducing a “don’t say gay” bill. All under the guise of calling it a war on Woke.

Books by black authors? Banned. It would make the kids uncomfortable to learn about America’s shameful history of slavery and segregation. Learning that would be woke. Better to have the kids grow up and become racist themselves not having learned from history.

Books by gay authors? Banned. Those books are woke. It would make our straight and white kids uncomfortable to learn that many people are born gay. They love people of their own sex. It is not a learned behavior. Better to have our kids grow up not understanding this, so that they can start shooting up gay clubs when they are older.

Books by transgender authors? Banned. Can you imagine our kids learning about transgender people? Learning that sometimes people are born in a body of the wrong sex? That is way too woke. Better not to teach our kids about that, so they can grow up hating people that are different from them.

Are you Muslim, or Jewish, agnostic or atheist? Then, according to the War on Woke idiots, you are respectively a terrorist, an untrustworthy agent of the “Deep State”, or a hedonistic monster.

Either way they want you out of their world. DiSantis and his merry band of racist, homophobic and bigoted morons are calling their revolting views “common decency”. Hiding behind what they call their Christian values. What an insult to all Christians of the world! They want to go back to “the good old days”. The days where white people ruled. The days where black people were just cheap labor. The days where gay and transgender people were just freaks. If this guy were actually to realize his dream of becoming president we are all screwed.

We could be going back to being a country where gay bashing is acceptable. Where being black, or Muslim, or Jewish, makes one less than human. That is what the right would call victory over woke.

Shame on DiSantis and his racist, homophobic and bigoted disciples!