Florida Bill Banning “Discomfort” In Racism History Lessons And Corporate Training Nears Final Approval

Florida Politics reports:

The House State Affairs Committee voted 16-8 Tuesday, along party lines, to advance a bill (HB 7) targeting class lessons and corporate trainings that teach cultural guilt, teachings proponents say insert ideology into history lessons. The legislation, filed in part at Gov. Ron DeSantis’ urging, is Florida Republicans’ effort to quell classroom or corporate training discussions they consider “woke” indoctrinations of cultural guilt or critical race theory.

The bill also extends the same bans to corporate human resources policies and training to stop what its sponsor cited as offensive cultural policies reported for such firms as AT&T, Coca-Cola, CBS, Google, and Walt Disney Corp. For Democrats, the effort took on new meaning this weekend following neo-Nazi demonstrations in Orlando Sunday. The Senate’s version (SB 148) from Republican Sen. Manny Díaz Jr. got through its first committee vote last month.

Read the full article. My first post on the bill is here.

Bill pushing freedom from discomforting lessons in classrooms, businesses heads to final House panel

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