When applied to the issues of diversity, inclusion and racially sensitive training in the business world, the stop-woke law turns on its head the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees, among other things, freedom of speech, District Judge Walker said. Because the state prohibits freedom of expression if it prohibits debates about certain concepts in training programs. “If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racist society, then let Florida make its case for it,” he wrote in his 44-page verdict. “But it cannot win the argument by silencing its opponents.”
