A bill pre-filed by State Rep. Ed Oliver (R-Dadeville) on Friday would prohibit “education, promotion, and endorsement of certain divisive concepts in certain public school settings.”
That any race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior.
According to the legislation, the bill would “prohibit certain public entities, including state agencies, local boards of education, and public institutions of higher education, from promoting or endorsing, or requiring affirmation of, certain divisive concepts relating to race, sex, or religion.”
“This bill would prohibit certain public entities from conditioning enrollment or attendance in certain classes or trainings on the basis of race or color,” the bill states. “This bill would also authorize certain public entities to discipline or terminate employees or contractors who violate this act.”
A list of the divisive concepts prohibited under the legislation:
That individuals should be discriminated against or adversely treated solely because of their race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
That the individual moral character of an individual is solely determined by his or her race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
That solely by virtue of an individual's race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin, the individual is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously.
That individuals, by virtue of race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
That fault, blame, or bias should be assigned to a race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin, or to members of a race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin, solely on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
That any individual should be asked to accept, acknowledge, affirm, or assent to a sense of guilt, complicity, or a need to apologize solely on the basis of his or her race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.
Oliver said in December that “it’ll be the first bill out in the Legislature this next session, and I expect it to pass easily.”
The legislation has 21 co-sponsors.
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