Next Florida will mandate yellow WOKE badges Woke is a four-letter word, a conservative all-purpose epithet as meaningless as the f-word. “You woking wokers get that woking thing out of my woking sight!” Meaningless or not, it serves Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s purposes: to divide and inflame. Republican politicians, conservative pundits, and Fox News anchors attach their slur to anyone to the left of submitting to them on their knees. Writing in Roll Call, Mary C. Curtis believes the term’s vagueness in Florida’s “Stop Woke Act” is deliberate. DeSantis means to erase Black history without expressly erasing Black history. A federal judge ruling on the act in November stated that Florida’s actions strike “at the heart of ‘open-mindedness and critical inquiry.’” By so doing, “the State of Florida has taken over the ‘marketplace of ideas’ to suppress disfavored viewpoints.” If you have to ask, “disfavored by whom?” you might be part of the problem. The Florida Department of Education rejected the College Board’s AP African American studies course as “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.” Its use of “inexplicably” is telling. Florida has no idea what’s objectionable about it. Vagueness in the “Stop Woke Act” is a feature, not a bug. DeSantis “has mastered this dark art.” The vagueness of rules enforced by his “election integrity” task force in the wake of an amendment voters passed to restore voting rights to ex-felons is also deliberate. Even law enforcement officers are “puzzled about the details of the law…