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Florida law banning Chinese land ownership gets successfully appealed (www.politico.com)

submitted 7 months ago by AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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A federal appeals court blocked a racist Florida law that restricts Chinese citizens from buying land from being enforced against the two people who sued the state. The court did not, however, block the law entirely; it's still in effect for everyone else. One of the judges, Nancy Abudu, agreed that this was a blatant violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the ACLU of Florida intends to continue fighting to prevent this law from being enforced more broadly.

This fight isn't over, but this decision certainly acknowledges the discriminatory nature of this law and is a big win.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

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[–] Flamingoaks@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

its more like "its ok as long as its "deserved""

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

Exactly. In their eyes, the instant a person opposes liberal interests, anything and everything against them, including tools of systemic oppression such as homophobia, racism and sexism, is fair game, and that won't make you a reactionary unless you use those only against "deserving" people.