DeSantis tears up Miami Pride crosswalk with bulldozers & sledgehammers. State authorities gave no notice to Miami officials that they were coming to destroy the street art.
Source: southpawFA
DeSantis tears up Miami Pride crosswalk with bulldozers & sledgehammers. State authorities gave no notice to Miami officials that they were coming to destroy the street art.
Source: southpawFA
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Irredeemable party
>Under the direction of Florida Gov. [Ron DeSantis](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/who-is-ron-desantis-where-does-he-stand-on-lgbtq-rights/) (R) and a mandate from the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation, dozens of workers from Florida’s Department of Transportation (FDOT) on Sunday evening bulldozed and sledgehammered an iconic Pride crosswalk located in the center of the predominantly gay South Beach neighborhood in Miami.
>A crowd of onlookers, including beachgoers, residents, and drag queens from local bars and clubs, formed as the workers destroyed the brick crosswalk.
>“Put a mask on so nobody sees who you are! You’re ashamed!” one bystander shouted, according to the [*Miami Herald*](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article312394535.html). “You feel good about this?”
>However, no officials have provided any studies to support claims that there is any increased road risk from rainbow crosswalks and other political artwork. On the contrary, a [2022 Bloomberg Philanthropies study](https://assets.bbhub.io/dotorg/sites/43/2022/04/Asphalt-Art-Safety-Study.pdf) suggested that unusual roadway art is actually tied to a decrease in the number of crashes at an intersection, making them overall safer for all road users.
Christian nationalists are so triggered by rainbows. They simply can’t tolerate being kind to queer people. It’s like asking them to amputate their arms or something. It’s utterly ridiculous.
imagine being so fragile that seeing a rainbow makes you tear up a street.
Jesus, hate is a full time job for these people.
DeSantis going for those performative politics again, huh? Tearing up a pride crosswalk doesn’t prove any point, it just shows how much he’s out of touch.
They will never win this battle.
Just fascist things
Bummer. It looks rather pretty.
That crosswalk is remarkable art. To tear it up is a crime on several levels.
Fascist are going to do Fascist things…
Rainbow paint on every road that needs repair. Problem solved.
Paint rainbows everywhere. Lets see him try to destroy it all.
Because Florida Christian’s can’t in good conscience use a rainbow crosswalk? I didn’t know it snowed in Miami.
Did Ron wear his white GoGo boots to this?
It’s sad that an entire party’s contribution to society is hate and culture wars against marginalized communities. What a joke. They offer nothing more. Worse for the economy , worse for social programs. The only thing you get from supporting these idiots is hatred. And if you support them is for racism and bigotry. There is literally nothing more to it.
Lmao. The effort and pettiness is ridiculous
They’re really arguing that rainbow cross walks are “distractions” that cause “fatalities.”
But I think you can safely argue that this dramatic and disproportionate response from Florida Republicans is not just costly, but more dangerous than some colorful pavement.
And while Desantis and other Republican lawmakers in Florida are signing laws to prohibit “ideological” and “political” content in public, they fail to recognize the cognitive dissonance when they’ve chosen to make their entire identities and personas about their politics and their ideological beliefs about gender, race and sexual orientation.
Meanwhile they’ll shut the government down to protect a pedophile.
We know he’s in the Epstein files.
Cos Donnie hangs with Pedophiles.
What a waste of money
Make it bigger and gayer
Once they’ve erased all other signs of gay and trans people, like this erasure, the erasure of the Pulse Nightclub massacre, the erasure of bathroom rights and identity rights, the only thing left to erase will be the people themselves, and make no mistake, that’s the ultimate endpoint of their pattern of erasure. Hitler did it and proved to the world that it could be done, and it will be done again if Republicans are able to maintain their stranglehold on power. They will not stop, they cannot stop, their entire existence is based on continuing escalation.
Imagine being so fragile that you are triggered by a crosswalk.
Well, now the people of Miami are responding and building a LGBTQ memorial. DeSantis and his minions can try to tear things down and bring the people down, but they will rebuild and keep on showing the pride of the LGBTQ community.
Gay community, take note. They came for trans people first, they are ramping up the war on you cis-gays now. Never trust a fascist to just stop at one or a few groups, they are obsessed with paranoia and will find yet another group to be paranoid about.
aye yo florida how much that cost? to do this petty shit?
This is what’s important to these people. THIS!!