 Paige Omec of the New Republic has a really interesting write-up about Ron DeSantis having a sudden change of heart About the policy that he is most known for I'm of course talking about book bans and his new position is Essentially that book bans are still good of course But maybe they shouldn't ban as many books in Florida as they did perhaps they got a little bit carried away Oh, and none of this is his fault by the way all these book bans He takes no responsibility So basically he held a press conference and subsequently put out this press release talking about book bans titled quote governor Ron DeSantis debunks book ban hoax calls on Florida Legislature to amend law to prevent abuse from activists. Okay interesting So it goes on to read today governor Ron DeSantis continued to debunk the false narrative that the state of Florida bans books I'm sorry, but this is just an objective fact Florida does not ban books instead the state has empowered parents to object to obscene material in the classroom What do we call that when the parents who object end up getting the books removed exactly? Anyways that continues still some have abused this process to object to items including books about Johnny Apple seed the giver and even the Bible Hmm that might be the real catalyst for the change of heart Governor DeSantis is calling on the legislature to fine-tune this process to prevent people from taking advantage of Florida law That is designed solely to remove inappropriate material from the classroom Now the changes that he is proposing includes the DOA stopping bad actors in schools from politicizing books in some way He doesn't necessarily specify how he also suggests limiting who can challenge books to parents and Just parents with kids at schools now in proposing changes to his own laws He is inadvertently acknowledging that this policy has been a complete and utter failure and I'm sorry But if your law can be weaponized for political purposes by activists, that's your fault You're the one who signed it into law DeSantis You are the one who chose to not just sign it into law but promote it and Defend it again and again and again now as the new republic points out regardless if you want to take Responsibility or not this is his doing quote in reality these ridiculous book bans are a direct cause of DeSantis signing house bill 1069 into law in May of 2023 other legislation in Florida including the parental rights and education bill This is the don't say gay law and the stop woke act have led to further restrictions Under DeSantis Florida allowed anyone to challenge books in school libraries that they deem to be inappropriate Often books that feature characters or topics on race sex and gender Sometimes books have been banned thanks to a single challenge and speaking of bad actors quote DeSantis has been celebrated by moms for liberty The parental rights group inciting many of these blanket bans The group has thanked the governor for blazing a trail on school book bans He even appointed a co-founder of moms for liberty to the Florida Commission on ethics Yeah, it's so funny that he is now complaining about bad actors that he himself emboldened But DeSantis didn't have a sudden change of heart nor is he frustrated with the activists who are supposedly taking advantage of These book ban laws the law is working as intended But the problem is that it's just not as popular as he wants it to be and it resulted in national blowback So in other words, he's forced to cave walk it back a little bit Right not back down completely from the position still maintain that book bans are good And we should have some process that we implement to where parents who are fascists like him Can challenge certain books if they are offensive when it comes to race and gender and sexuality But ultimately he realizes This kind of got a little bit ridiculous and it did I mean you can't give him credit for this because it's like acknowledging that the sky is blue It's something so obvious that anyone who denies it is denying reality But here's the thing this isn't the first time that a book ban law has blown up in a GOP lawmakers face So in utah one republican legislator He introduced a bill to ban books Similar to the don't say gay law it got signed into law and then once it was in effect Guess what happened? Well parents started challenging books that they didn't want to be challenged like The bible and that actually led to the bible being banned and then guess what happened He called for the legislature to amend his own law after the bible was banned saying no no not that book So you love when these GOP lawmakers get a taste of their own medicine because they immediately backtrack You know, it's not like they're going to be principled and say listen Sure, these parents make some good points about the bible being a little bit offensive It has references to bestiality and slavery and whatnot. So even though I don't necessarily agree You know, I am going to give parents the right to challenge that book because I want parents who are christian to be able to challenge books That they deem inappropriate as well, but they're not doing that. They're just saying We really just want to ban specific books But they can't just say we want to ban books about sexual orientation and gender identity and race because that would be Unconstitutional that would be discrimination So instead they have to have these really broad policies That end up coming back to bite them in the ass and whenever it happens You love to see it but back to ronda santis. He's caving and uh good whenever we see a fascist back down from a position That is a win It means that fascists aren't infallible even though they want you to believe that they are all knowing and all powerful No Sometimes things that they do especially really stupid things blows up in their face and whenever that happens We celebrate that Walk my mama Walk my mama Okay, okay. Hello. Okay, I'll do woke ideology okay good. Hello arguably woke tasks woke orange woke olympics woke DIE Okay, I'll do okay za Like any other