DeSantis takes aim at CRT training in schools and corporate America
By: Tyler O’Neil
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris approve of Critical Race Theory to make America hate again. CRT is racist.
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DeSantis takes aim at CRT training in schools and corporate America
DeSantis' administration moved against critical race theory in schools; now the governor is broadening his efforts
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is introducing legislation Wednesday banning critical race theory in classrooms and in corporate settings, such as employee trainings, through a piece of legislation coined the "Stop WOKE Act."
The Florida Department of Education previously enacted a rule to prevent CRT-inspired content in the state's K-12 schools. DeSantis has emphatically condemned critical race theory (CRT) — a framework that involves deconstructing aspects of society to discover systemic racism beneath the surface.
"Florida’s civics curriculum will incorporate foundational concepts with the best materials and it will expressly exclude unsanctioned narratives like critical race theory and other unsubstantiated theories," DeSantis said in March.
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"Let me be clear: There is no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory," he continued. "Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media about the cruise industry during a press conference at PortMiami on April 8, 2021, in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Yet the governor's bill expands the effort beyond education.
"Now the progressive activists’ CRT agenda is not only in education, but also in corporate boardrooms and employee trainings at some of America’s most powerful corporations," the governor's office explained in a news release. "Workers are subjected to trainings pushing the falsehoods that America is a ‘white supremacist’ country, and that white Americans are ‘raised to be racist’ from early childhood. These divisive narratives and indoctrination programs create a hostile environment in violation of our laws and principles."
The Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act (Stop W.O.K.E. Act) will go "on the offense against both corporate wokeness and critical race theory in our schools," according to the release.
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The legislation aims to protect employees by deeming "critical race theory training to be an unlawful employment practice. The proposed legislation would make clear that corporations and public sector employers violate the Florida Civil Rights Act when they subject their employees to training that espouses race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating including critical race theory."
Amy Carney speaks on behalf of parents during a protest against critical race theory being taught at Scottsdale Unified School District before a digital school board meeting at Coronado High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, on May 24, 2021. (Reuters)
The Stop WOKE Act also aims to protect teachers and school staff by declaring CRT training "to be a discriminatory practice in education," from kindergarten through college and university levels. The bill will require districts and schools to "adhere to professional development frameworks consistent with Florida’s lawful and publicly adopted state standards."
The bill also aims to protect students and families by codifying the State Board of Education's actions into state law.
According to the news release, the legislation will give employees a private cause of action against discrimination in the workplace, give parents and students a private cause of action against "indoctrinating practices" in education, protect teachers who are "pushing back against unlawful mandates from their elected district leadership," and gives the State Board of Education enforcement authority in K-12 settings.
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Parents across the country have risen in protest against CRT-themed lessons and trainings for teachers. While many school districts insist that they do not teach CRT to students – defining CRT as a college-level or law school class – an increasing number of them have adopted notions of "White privilege" and "institutional racism" tracing back to CRT, and others have hired notorious "anti-racism" advocates like Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi to speak to teachers.
In the wake of the George Floyd shooting in May 2020, corporations have also adopted CRT trainings for employees in the name of "racial equity."
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What douche replies to their own comments?
There's a couple of them here, on both sides.
I had to break what would have been one comment into more than one post.
By 2024 he'll be a God like figure compared to the democrats. The question is can we survive 3 more years?
He is definitely plan B that year if Trump doesn’t run in 2024, and plan A in all future Presidential elections after that.
I think he will. The liberal left is scared to death as it is of what he could accomplish already.
They are quaking in their boots in fear of him. I think they may actually fear him more than they fear Trump.
Nah. He may win the electoral college, but will lose the popular vote. He may have a majority in the house, but not enough in the senate to overcome a filibuster, and he will lose one or both houses in the midterms. He won't accomplish much of anything because he doesn't have a platform or agenda. He has no ideas, no vision that extends beyond "own the libs". Which works fine while you are in the minority and not expected to actually do anything, but doesn't work when you are in charge and actually have to, you know, do shit. He would more or less be a useless turd in the punch bowl for his presidency. His presidency will have the same impact as a fart in the wind.
As far as reelection goes, who knows.
As a governor he has shown that he clearly has both a platform and an agenda. As to the senate there’s always reconciliation to get things accomplished with a small majority in the senate.
Good question. The libtardian mass media will really start to get to work on him now.
Perhaps he dipped a little schoolgirls pigtails in ink or gave some kid a swirly in third grade or drank beer in high school or etc, etc
Oh yes, that's coming!
Without a doubt…
There’s always the question of what exactly is meant when we say “Critical Race Theory.” It really is becoming a kind of vague political bogeyman. On the other hand the nutty Left brought this on themselves.
I agree we shouldn’t be teaching kids to hate each other or the country. I doubt/hope that sentiment isn’t even particularly controversial. I know we get some wackjob teachers out in the world who think they’re going to do something new and bold by demanding that children acknowledge their privilege or something, but I have to believe they are still the exception and not the rule.
Having said all that, I think you can talk about racism in our history (even in our institutions) without implicating kids. Some 3rd grader is not responsible for Jim Crow.
Yup, that's called teaching. Which is perfectly fine. It's not indoctrination. Which is what most peoples problem with applications of CRT is.
Exactly! The kind being resisted is not genuine history but is in fact indoctrination and propaganda.
The things that DeSantis spoke out against and that parents have been protesting against at school board meetings are as bad as De Santis mentioned in the seed. It is an attempt to replace content of character and the dream with race as the determining factor for so many things.
That sounds like something else that defies definition.
Except throughout American history and even today that has been and is blatantly not true.
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It is our aspiration and has been largely achieved despite the despicable propaganda from BLM, CRT, and 1619 that deny all progress that’s been achieved.
I believe that Gov. Abbott had clear ideas in mind when he spoke those words.
I’m curious if he spelled them out explicitly. If they are too vague, the law will be unenforceable.
I’m sure that the secular progressive left elites will try to fight him in court without success
"The left" never brought this up. This was never mentioned anywhere outside of upper level college courses and even then only in a select few classes. hence why 99% of people had never heard of it until Fox decided to make it the next "communism". Even most on the left had never heard of it until earlier this year when dipshits like the seeder started using it in every sentence.
But yes, now it has lost all meaning, like "socialism" and is just some garbage phrase idiots like to throw around to sound smart to other idiots.
I agree, and it is not a widespread sentiment. In fact I have yet to actually meet a single person in real life that "hates" America.
Again, I don't even really see that happening. Acknowledging that the US has an extremely racist history and that racism was codified into law throughout much of the country and for the majority of our history is a simple fact. It is not acknowledging anything other than absolute historical facts. Does that mean white kids today are responsible? Of course not, that would be retarded. I don't know anyone aside from those on Fox and even farther right that are even suggesting as much.
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Governor De Santis is exactly right about that! 🇺🇸👍👏