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good evening, everyone. thanks for tuning in i m alison camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. let s start with the culture wars. in the past 24 hours the battlefield has been noisy. more battles about books in the classroom, drama over drag shows, and gaslighting about gas stoves. here is florida governor ron desantis this morning surrounded by and taking urgent action to protect gas stoves. they are trying to take away your gas stove. they are coming for any little thing in your life that they can do, and i think what they want to be able to do is they ultimately want to control the amount of energy you consume. well, it turns 92% of floridians use electric stoves, but let s not let that get in the way. what is this really about? well, governor sarah huckabee sanders spelled it out. we are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. sure seems like some people do want this fight. but what s the truth about culture war rhetor ....
the so-called war on woke is heating up. tonight, we re learning arkansas s republican governor, sarah huckabee sanders, may soon be signing a bill that would impose restrictions on direct shows. that s according to the washington post. this proposal still needs to make its way through the state house to the governors desk. her spokesperson telling the post, the proposal is not about banning anything but protecting kids from sexually explicit drag shows. unquote. cnn has reached out to governor sanders for comment, and we re still waiting to hear back. that s not all, her first month in office, she issued an executive order to prohibit critical race theory and arkansas schools. she also banned the term latinx, in official documents. and it s not just her, across the country more politicians are getting traction with rhetorical and legislative wars on so-called woke culture and language. i want to turn now to new york times columnist nicholas kristoff, he has a new piece ....
well, the so-called war on woke is heating up. arkansas governor may sign a bill that would impose restrictions on drag shows. that s according to the washington post. this proposal has to make its way through the statehouse and the governor s desk. but the spokesperson says the proposal is not about banning anything, but protecting kids from sexually explicit drag shows. cnn reached out for comment and are waiting to hear back. that s not all. in her first month in office, she issued an executive office to prohibit critical race theory in arkansas schools. and she banned the term latin x. it s not just her. across the country, more politicians are getting traction with rhetorical and legislative wars on so-called woke culture and language. i want to turn to nicholas kristof. he has a new piece out on these language wars and writes, in part, i fear that linguistic contortions, however well-meant, aren t addressing our country s desperate inequities or achieving progr ....
Parties should be a party in itself. on the flip side, george, there are people, democrats including liberals who are starting to say that wokeness is getting them in trouble and going too far, and it s a great talking point for the right. and here s nicholas christoff a week ago in this column saying i feared our ling quistic contortions however well-meaning aren t addressing our country s inequities or achieving progressive dreams but rather creating fuel for right wing leaders in order to take aggressive action. have we reached the tipping point in that? there is truth in that. for example, the word latinx, which i don t even know how to say. you said it right. i said it right. the first thing sarah sanders did as governor was to ban the word latinx in arkansas state documents. it was like that s really stupid, but on the other hand, people latinos or hispanics or i don t know what the phrase ....
From sexually explicit drag shows. cnn reached out for comment and are waiting to hear back. that s not all. in her first month in office, she issued an executive office to prohibit critical race theory in arkansas schools. and she banned the term latin x. it s not just her. across the country, more politicians are getting traction with rhetorical and legislative wars on so-called woke culture and language. i want to turn to nicholas kristof. he has a new piece out on these language wars and writes, in part, i fear that linguistic contortions, however well-meant, aren t addressing our country s desperate inequities or achieving progressive dreams but rather are creating fuel for right-wing leaders, aiming to take the country in the opposite direction. nicholas kristof joins us now on this conversation. ....