But there’s somethin’ decidedly fishy about all this.
Marco’s urge to font purge
That’s it! No more Calibri in the State Department.
Sec. Of State Marco Rubio’s “directive to all diplomatic posts around the world blamed ‘radical’ diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs for what he said was a misguided and ineffective switch from the serif typeface Times New Roman to sans serif Calibri in official department paperwork,” reports The New York Times.
Calibri is woke. Times New Roman is safely asleep….even if it it does smack of a certain “failing” newspaper that Rubio’s boss hates.
Listen, you don’t even want to know what Marco thinks about all the other subversive fonts.
Thou shalt be neutral
Interim UF President Donald Landry’s new “institutional neutrality” policy could have been written by George Orwell. “We have to provide protections for expression, but we are not going to be able to engage in that protection if we have leadership speaking on issues that then create those aligned with leadership and those opposed to leadership,” he told UF’s Board of Trustees.
Mum’s the word at Tigert Hall.
Wait! What?
A university that has arrested student demonstrators for walking on the grass, tried to keep faculty from testifying in court as expert witnesses, stripped a retired prof of emeritus status for a social media post, purged three little letters (DEI) from campus and erased Karl Marx’s name from Library west…. is now going all in on “institutional neutrality?”
In the name of guaranteeing free speech?
On the other hand…
Still, I suppose it’s possible to carry this whole institutional neutrality thing too far. You’d think a university absolutely committed to neutrality in all things, expression-wise, would be quick to obey a judge’s order to reinstate an expelled UF law student who has expressed strident white nationalist and anti-Semitic views on social media….what with the First Amendment thingy and all.
But no, UF has appealed that order. Oh, and university leadership won’t comment on the litigation.
Because of, you know, institutional neutrality.
Uthmeier’s coffee colored purge
James Uthmeier, Florida’s crusading AG, has gone after drag shows, Planned Parenthood, weather modifiers and more. Now he’s trained his crosshairs on Starbucks for…I guess…not hiring enough white people.
“Starbucks made DEI more than a slogan.” Uthmeier said. “They turned it into a mandatory hiring and promotion system based upon race. The coffee empire set numerical racial targets for their workforce and they tied executive bonuses to those targets.”
Uthmeier to Starbucks: Can I get a little more, um, cream in that coffee?
Go ahead and sue me
Wait! What? The Great DeSanitizer has declared the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to be a foreign terrorist organization. (Something that the Trump Administration inexplicably neglected to do.)
This because The Free State Of Floriduh’s Guv is pretty sure that there are actual Muslim’s involved in CAIR. Which of course means that whatever the hell “those” people are up to must be “irreconcilable with foundational American principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…”
(Not to mention that Texas got the jump on our Guv…Islamophobia wise…and he’s hoppin’ mad about that.)
Naturally, Floriduh gomment is being sued by CAIR, but that’s Jake with our anti-Ron: “They have every right to sue and then we’re going to have a right to get the information we need to make sure”…that whatever the hell “those” people are up to is indeed “irreconcilable” with…you know…Americanism and stuff.
And as if to add gravy to his grits, said litigation won’t cost The Guv a nickel out of his own pocket. We taxpayers, Florida Muslims included, will pick up the tab. As always.
Wait! That can’t be right
And finally, this just in: The lexicographers at Oxford University Press have officially designated “rage bait” as the word of the year.
According to the Oxford pros, rage bait “has become shorthand for content designed to elicit anger by being frustrating, offensive, or deliberately divisive in nature…”
To which I object in a rit of fage.
Listen, I may be just a retired small town newspaper guy. But even I know that rage bait is two words.
Now if it had been up to me, I woulda chose “Calibri” as the word of the year. Cause if it ain’t squid it ain’t squat!
FreeGNV 