IOW. . . Desantis wants to ensure a diversity of thoughts and beliefs in students and faculty in our higher institutions of learning so we don't become prone to intellectual or political dogma, like totalitarian societies do.
. . . ensuring diversity?
NOPE, can't have diversity of thought and opinion. . . ONLY skin color.
From the OP:
This new law, which goes into effect on July 1,
follows DeSantis earlier this month banning K-12 public schools from featuring specific lessons and discussions related to racism. These include educational lessons and discussions on the concept of
critical race theory, which examines systemic racism in American institutions and policies, as well as on “The 1619 Project,” which is a New York Times initiative that reexamines the legacy of slavery in the United States.
Texas also last month
passed a bill that effectively bans public school teachers from talking about racism, white supremacy or current news events.
BUT? Does everyone agree with Critical Race Theory?
Is it widely accepted?
I don't think a lot of conservatives or even mainstream liberals would deny the history of racism in our nation.
Nor, would they deny implicit bias that all people, of every color, ethnicity, social class, religion, and sexuality are prone to suffer from.
Likewise, poor families, no matter what color they are, do, inherently have less financial resources and start from a place that is less than more wealthy families, and this does tend to be HUGELY skewed toward minorities.
BUT, none of this points toward systemic racism being codified, officially, in modern US law, nor does it mean that the IN-GROUP is somehow evil and deserves to be demonized by the official intellectual establishment, which the establishment wants to teach that all OUT-GROUPS are still oppressed. Are they? Are they really? Statistics and facts do not bear this out.
Expect push-back, and just don't assume folks are all going to agree with making such non-sense, official government policy without debate.
Although we can't change history, we can do our best to make society equal, but America is not about the government insuring equity. . .you must do that on your own.
Critical Race Theory is just that, IT IS A THEORY, an epistemological framework, a lens through which one can look at the world, whose roots are firmly planted in Marxism. Thus, it is distinctly anti-American in it's origins. You need to understand this if you want to understand why there is a reaction to it. Even a lot of minorities do not want to be pawns in this radical agenda to reshape the nation for, "equity," rather than "equality."
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