Posted on 04/23/2022 3:36:16 AM PDT by Libloather
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Friday that aims to regulate how schools and businesses address race and gender, the state’s latest effort to restrict education about those topics.
The law, which has become known as the “Stop WOKE Act,” prohibits workplace training or school instruction that teaches that individuals are “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously”; that people are privileged or oppressed based on race, gender, or national origin; or that a person “bears personal responsibility for and must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress” over actions committed in the past by members of the same race, gender, or national origin. The law says such trainings or lessons amount to discrimination.
The Republican-led legislation passed the Florida House in February by a vote of 74-41 and the Florida Senate in March by a vote of 24-15, along partisan lines.
“No one should be instructed to feel as if they are not equal or shamed because of their race,” DeSantis said in a statement on Friday. “In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces. There is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida.”
DeSantis, a Republican, proposed the legislation in December under the name Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act, saying he aimed to “take on both corporate wokeness and critical race theory.”
“We won’t allow Florida tax dollars to be spent teaching kids to hate our country or to hate each other,” he said at the time, while calling critical race theory “state-sanctioned racism.”
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Bible classes will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the main auditorium. Gun classes will be every day at the range.
4 more years...
desantis for florida governor 2022...
florida first!...
I like this guy more and more. We need a replica of him in the Carolina’s sand nationally
The stop woke act. I love it. 😀🤗😊👍
If it’s not being taught in k-12, why are teachers upset ad why are there textbooks?
“… “No one should be instructed to feel as if they are not equal or shamed because of their race,” DeSantis said…”
“Because it prohibits the promotion of these ideas by public university faculty, it is almost certainly unconstitutional,” says Jeremy Young, senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America..”
Let THAT sink in. This Jeremy clown thinks it’s unconstitutional to prohibit teaching racist hate.
Is it unconstititional like welfare, medicare, medicad, abortion, the department of education and a thousand other federal activities?
The gentleman may very well be correct when it comes to that. Instead the law should have made clear that students and faculty were not to be punished for expressing opposition to the ideology promoted by the Leftist cadre on campus. That the free speech of those who did not kowtow to Wokeism is protected.
And the democrats almost stole the election came up 20,000 short ..found 30;000
Gov. Abbott needs to take some lessons from future President DeSantis. A lot governors do. And Senators. And Congressmen. And Mayors. And School Boards. And Town Clerks. And...
Ron DeSantis Math
Spine + Brains + Stones = Greatness
“The law, which has become known as the “Stop WOKE Act,”
To who? Who came up with that, and who calles it that? The usual pinkos in the so-called “news” media?
Anyhoo...”Choke the Woke” would have been catchier.
Too many of them would be excited by that phrase. .
They were told to be upset by their union and media.
Yep! Rodeo sex Gillum almost pulled it off. Think of the rooms in the Governor’s Mansion he and his playmates could have ruined with fecal matter when they played.
Democrat ‘elites’ want S&M classes taught to Florida kindergartners. They say children of of bondage parents feel sad and isolated that other children don’t ‘accept’ their parent’s lifestyles.
DeSantis passes the Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold and Balls of Brass.
Need more like him remember in November
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