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Florida Bans DEI in Public Colleges
American Greatness ^ | 19 Jan, 2024 | Eric Lendrum

Posted on 01/20/2024 4:42:45 AM PST by MtnClimber

In Florida, the state Board of Education passed new regulations prohibiting public colleges from using public funds for programs and initiatives based on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

As ABC News reports, the Florida Board of Education categorizes such DEI efforts as “any program, campus activity, or policy that classifies individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation and promotes differential or preferential treatment of individuals on the basis of such classification.”

DEI is widely seen as a rebranded and expanded version of affirmative action, which involves race-based admissions and hiring practices in universities, overwhelmingly favoring non-White applicants. While affirmative action, which was struck down by the Supreme Court last year as unconstitutional, focused exclusively on race, DEI also includes diversity along the lines of gender and sexual preference in addition to race.

Supporters of DEI claim that the purpose of DEI is to address past discrimination by boosting black, Hispanic, female, and non-straight applicants and students. Critics point out that, like affirmative action, DEI consistently discriminates against White, male, and straight applicants.

Under the Board of Education’s new restrictions, the Florida College System (FCS) will be forbidden from using either state or federal funds to implement programs that could be considered DEI under the new definition.

The Board’s decision follows a ruling by a judge which blocked a recently-enacted law in Florida serving a similar purpose. The Stop WOKE Act – with WOKE standing for “Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees” – was determined by the judge to be in violation of the First Amendment. The Republican-passed legislation was also described as too vague to be properly enforced. A trial to determine the fate of the law will take place in October of 2024.

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) has made his fight against “woke” ideology one of the cornerstones of his governorship and his presidential campaign, the latter of which has increasingly proven to be a failure after his distant second-place finish in the Iowa Caucuses on Monday; DeSantis received just 21% to former President Donald Trump’s 51%. DeSantis is also expected to lose the upcoming New Hampshire primary in a landslide to President Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (R-S.C.), who only narrowly came in third behind DeSantis in Iowa.


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communiam; dei; education; florida

1 posted on 01/20/2024 4:42:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

DeSantis should bus the woke to New York City and Chicago.


2 posted on 01/20/2024 4:42:55 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

How are judges now determining the legislation of this country???


3 posted on 01/20/2024 4:52:09 AM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: MtnClimber

Purely racist and sexist, since straight white males are going to be the principal beneficiaries of this.


4 posted on 01/20/2024 4:52:10 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MtnClimber

D enying
E xcellent
I ndividuals


5 posted on 01/20/2024 4:57:40 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

“Florida Bans DEI in Public Colleges”

Good to know that they FIRED all of their teachers and administrators in these colleges. About damn time!!!!

Oh, they didn’t. In that case, perhaps the headline should read something like: “Florida Bans use of The Term DEI in Public Colleges”.


6 posted on 01/20/2024 5:03:11 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: MtnClimber

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4211161/posts


7 posted on 01/20/2024 5:04:03 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: BobL

“Under the Board of Education’s new restrictions, the Florida College System (FCS) will be forbidden from using either state or federal funds to implement programs that could be considered DEI under the new definition”

No money


8 posted on 01/20/2024 5:05:09 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: PGalt

D iscrimination

E xclusion

I ntolerance


9 posted on 01/20/2024 5:05:59 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

That too.


10 posted on 01/20/2024 5:18:18 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber
Florida bans DEI in public colleges

Didn't they just ban "CRT"?

These are empty words. Go ahead, ban "DEI". Ban "CRT". Ban "Woke". Ban "Land acknowledgements".

They can make up new words for anti-white racism faster than you can ban them.

Anti-white racism is already banned by the privileges and immunities clauses in the US Constitution and by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The problem is that anti-white racism, including self-hatred in some cases, has taken over the minds of the ruling class, and admission to the ruling class now requires affirmative expression of that hatred. It is the ruling spirit of the age, in Europe, Canada, America, Australia, and New Zealand. It has destroyed South Africa.

Never mind about enemy words and phrases. Get to the root.

Call out "I don't see color" - because everyone else does.

11 posted on 01/20/2024 5:30:34 AM PST by Jim Noble (Assez des mensonges et des phrases)
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To: MtnClimber

Good. Now if only DEI could D-I-E once and for all.


12 posted on 01/20/2024 5:45:32 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

Trial scheduled for October of 2024.

That’s a real sense of urgency.


13 posted on 01/20/2024 5:54:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: MtnClimber

DEI means the same as RACISM.


14 posted on 01/20/2024 6:15:10 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Democrats never backstab each other the way the sorry Republicans do. There is no GOP.)
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To: ComputerGuy

considering those practices were set up to deliberately block straight white males i guess they would benefit the most from banning DIE


15 posted on 01/20/2024 6:15:22 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: MtnClimber

Congrats, Florida.
This is how it is done.


16 posted on 01/20/2024 6:56:47 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
DEI means the same as RACISM.

And as an added bonus, it's trendy and easier to spell.

17 posted on 01/20/2024 7:01:42 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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