Posted on 03/03/2022 10:55:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
Posted at 7:34 AM, Mar 03, 2022 and last updated 5:41 AM, TAMPA, Fla. — If Florida's “Stop WOKE Act,” also known as House Bill 7 or Senate Bill 148, passes, it would be the strongest legislation of its kind in the nation.
“Essentially what this piece of legislation would do is it would prohibit businesses and educational institutions from providing certain types of training or education for their employees or students that may for whatever reason make those employees or students feel uncomfortable,” said Kelly Flannery, President and CEO of the South Tampa Chamber of Commerce.
HB7 would prohibit Florida’s public schools and private businesses from making people feel uncomfortable or guilty over their race, sex, or national origin.
“That includes diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings, it includes implicit bias trainings, it could even include sexual harassment trainings,” said Brandon Wolf, Press Secretary for Equality Florida.
“If an employee were to say this training, or this education made me feel uncomfortable, they would then be able to actually sue their employer for providing this training,” said Flannery.
The bill states teachers would be able to talk about topics like sexism, racism, slavery, and racial segregation but they can’t persuade students to a particular point of view.
While the legislation doesn’t specifically mention Critical Race Theory, Governor Ron DeSantis said back in December the bill would keep it out of schools.
The bill states it’s about individual freedom of what topics people are exposed to, and supporters say it will keep schools from imposing opinions on students.
DeSantis said this will also prevent hostile work environments, but some critics disagree and have concerns.
“This legislation threatens to eliminate training on diversity, equity, and inclusion that are key to creating an inclusive respectful workplace,” said Flannery.
“It puts employers in a really difficult position because they want to be able to provide education and training so that all of their employees feel safe in the workplace but now we’re in this weird sticky situation where if someone else then feels uncomfortable because of the training, the employer can then be liable,” she added.
“It’s going to cause great pause and censor these conversations within the workplace which will kind of flip the script here,” said Justice Gennari, President and CEO of Tampa Bay LGBT Chamber.
The bill has passed the House and is heading to the Senate floor.
But how is racism supposed to be kept alive if the leftists aren’t allowed to teach it?
Imagine how much an employer would be sued if the training blamed blacks for everything under the sun.
Good.
Wokeness = weakness
I’m not convinced these laws help.
“...prohibit businesses and educational institutions from providing certain types of training or education...” Like ALL white people and cops want to kill BIPOCs and belong to the kkk? That kind of training and education?
“that may for whatever reason make those employees or students feel uncomfortable”
Well, you know, those things are already illegal under federal law. It’s called “creating a hostile work environment” and it’s a violation of civil rights laws, even if nobody in the federal government will bother to enforce it when it affects white people, men, Christians, etc.
Stop forced libtard racism 🤪
you can still talk about woke philosophy if you want. It just won’t be part of the enforced curriculum anymore.
It’s time to go back to sleep. We could all use some rest.
Most conservatives, even on what the MSM calls the “extreme right”, have no problem with schools teaching and discussing racism, slavery, the civil rights movement, and current race issues. The problem comes when they fail to provide context, straight up lie about issues and events, rewrite history, assign “white guilt” and “white privilege”, push Marxist critical race theory, and tell white kids they and all their ancestors are evil based solely on the color of their skin.
“Good.”
“The problem comes when they fail to provide context, straight up lie about issues and events, rewrite history, assign “white guilt” and “white privilege”,
They can’t . They’re driven for hatred for whitey. They preach “equality” but if you argue like say, current NBA players wearing BLACK HISTORY MONTH, why cant white players wear WHITE HISTORY MONTH t shirts without being called racist?
The laws themselves probably don’t do much.
The open defiance of Wokism and the reduction of its prestige in the eyes of regular people will do much more.
IMHO, there has been too much ‘race talk’, between the riots caused by the murder of Dr. King, the ‘can’t we get along’ riots in the ‘90’s, the arson after Hurricane Katrina, and all the nonzense since!!
The ones doing all the talking, are ghe same ones that have condoned all the above actions, and then stand there, and proceed to preach about ‘you have to accept your badness for being white’.
Y’all might not know this. In 1974, on Dover AFB, Delaware, all the non-senior-enlisted Negro personnel enacted a ‘sit-down strike’ in the mess hall. As a result of that day, in 1975, all enlisted pdrsonnel had a mandantory week-long class in ‘human relations’!
So, no, I don’t!!
“It’s going to cause great pause and censor these conversations within the workplace which will kind of flip the script here,”
Wut?
Lecturing don't you mean? One way - whitey bad, responsible for all the worlds ills...
Up yours and your 'racism' BS.
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