Posted on 07/02/2023 10:13:45 AM PDT by CFW
Texas became the latest state to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in public schools earlier this month.
Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 17 into law, prohibiting DEI offices in Texas public colleges and universities starting in 2024. The new law comes months after the University of Houston’s decision to ban DEI statements in faculty hiring.
“The issue is not diversity – the issue is that equity is not equality, and DEI practices conflate the two, Governor Abbott’s spokesman Andrew Mahaleris told Campus Reform. “Some universities and woke professors have been using DEI to advance political agendas and exclude conservative viewpoints on college campuses. These efforts adversely affect our students, limit exposure to diverse thought, and destroy our education system.”
“Governor Abbott is proud to sign SB 17 into law because in Texas we give people the opportunity to advance based on talent and merit,” Mahaleris continued.
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There should be 24 states
Did they ban the name (like banning CRT created DEI) or did they ban the activity?
The necessary law fits on a postcard: “The State of Texas forbids anti-white agitation, education, or actions, because they are inconsistent with Article IV, Amendment XIV, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964”
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) equals DIE equals DEATH to any institution that practices it!!!!
“Texas eliminates DEI at public colleges and universities”
Unless there’s some SERIOUSLY ENFORCEMENT, combined with purges, I’d slightly change the title of the article:
“Texas eliminates the term “DEI” at public colleges and universities”
It’s an awesome law.
Let the hissing snakes of California and Noo Yawk throw stones at this one.
The quality of graduates and professors in TX is about to take a quantum leap upward.
MeMa Ivey asleep at the wheel in Alabama. People should have known better after she had to forced by the legislature to behave like a conservative durin Covid.
This is a win.
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Starting to get an idea who the real red states are. Well, actually it just confirms what i mostly already knew.
It’s only a good law if it’s enforced.
Then you haven’t lokjed at Texas’s budgets lately.
Red, my arse.
You do know that that fails the equal treatment under the law check just like DEI does, right?
It also ignores the fact that people of Asian descent are rapidly being lumped together with Caucasians as targets for such agitators and we really don’t need to go through this all over again for another unfairly targeted group. Especially not when we can solve an easily forseeable problem once and for all then move on.
yep, Texas does a LOT of lefty things for being a red state.
Totally bought into wind and solar for one thing.
That was based more on corruption then belief.
Look at their budgets.
Texas is at Deep State’s mercy.
So is every other damn state in the union.
We don’t have red states.
We are not going to be voting our way out of this with our feet.
I feel better about it now that you made the distinction.
Thank you ! I’m here to serve!
Until and unless a state(s) raises its own money and turns down federal money..little will actually ever change.
Texas which is size a small country could do it. Or, could have done it.
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