Desantis is a piece of shit capitalizing on the fear mongering that has exploded in recent history. The problem with that is his state along with Texas (Abbott), TN (legislature), and others are attracting people to those states that are chasing that message which will only exacerbate the problem. I can’t tell you how many new clients I met with this year that had moved in because of no income tax and our ultra conservative legislature.
Reading through the last 10 pages of this thread has been interesting. The fear mongering and words that are used in these debates are ridiculous. It’s no different than going after immigrants for the outliers, going after other races for the outliers, etc. Your examples are 1 in a million and shouldn’t drive the narrative for the population. You don’t legislate against a specific group because of the outliers.
Schools need to be educating our children about everything that goes on in the world and “grooming” (which is another stupid fucking word that is everywhere) them to be tolerant, educated, individuals. If your backwoods ass wants to teach hate (intolerance manifests hate pure and simple) at home, there isn’t anything anyone can do to stop you. Let’s let the schools give them the worldly viewpoint and education they need to operate in the world today. Intolerance, ignorance, marginalization, etc breeds hate which then leads to people dying as a result. It’s that simple, look back through history as a guide of you don’t believe it. I’m a high income, white, fairly conservative, church going, male and this stuff makes me sad for the future of my two girls. They both want out of this state as quickly as they can, so hopefully we’ve done our part to make them see the bigger picture.