DeSantis, Shapiro & Co. Want To Put My Kid in the Closet

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by TIM MILLER/The Bulwark

Nineties fever is upon us. Wide-legged jeans and bucket hats are everywhere. Pam & Tommy’s sextape is on the tube. Death Row Records has schoolmarms squirming. And in Florida, Ron Desantis’s Republicans are plotting to revive another grody artifact of my childhood, with an assist from Ben Shapiro and the conservative media set:

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Part Deux: Scholastic Boogaloo.

Critics have termed the proposal “Don’t Say Gay” legislation and I have to be honest, when this first hit my radar I thought it was too ridiculous to be something that could actually become law.

Maybe this was one of those cases where a freakazoid state legislator proposes some hopeless nonsense for media attention? Or activists overstate the particulars of what’s being proposed for attention? Or maybe it’s one of those scenarios where a president attempts a multifaceted putsch to stay in power and New York Times columnists tell us we shouldn’t take it that seriously because he’s just a big joke and nothing will come of it?

Read more: https://www.thebulwark.com/desantis-shapiro-co-want-to-put-my-kid-in-the-closet/