{"id":19850,"date":"2023-01-17T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19850"},"modified":"2023-01-17T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:14:58","slug":"texas-vs-dei-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/01\/17\/texas-vs-dei-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs. DEI In Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17818\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Flag-of-Texas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"147\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Texas has seen bills introduced to stop Critical Gender Theory and Critical Race Theory. Now, a bill has been introduced to stop the state colleges and universities engaging in the <em>praxis<\/em> of \u201cDiversity\u201d, \u201cInclusion\u201d, and \u201cEquity\u201d (AKA \u201cDEI\u201d, or more accurately the \u201cDIE\u201d agenda). <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&amp;Bill=HB1006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HB 1006<\/a> (2023) states, in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(f) Each institution of higher education shall adopt a policy detailing students&#8217; rights and responsibilities regarding expressive activities at the institution. The policy must:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(1) demonstrate a commitment to intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(2) prohibit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(A) the funding, promotion, sponsorship, or support of:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(i) any office of diversity, equity, and inclusion; and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ii) any office that funds, promotes, sponsors, or supports an initiative or formulation of diversity, equity, and inclusion beyond what is necessary to uphold the equalprotection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(B) the endorsement or dissuasion of, or\u00a0 interference with, any lifestyle, race, sex, religion, or culture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You can\u2019t censor those who call for \u201cDEI\u201d, but you can make sure that they can\u2019t censor or punish you for dissent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The full bill can be read here, or below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Texas HB 1006 (2023)\" align=\"center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/620099123\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-m8jr3Y1ehw41wBGX1Jar\" tabindex=\"0\" data-auto-height=\"true\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.6069986541049798\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p  style=\"   margin: 12px auto 6px auto;   font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;   font-style: normal;   font-variant: normal;   font-weight: normal;   font-size: 14px;   line-height: normal;   font-size-adjust: none;   font-stretch: normal;   -x-system-font: none;   display: block;\"   ><a title=\"View Texas HB 1006 (2023) on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/620099123\/Texas-HB-1006-2023#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Texas HB 1006 (2023)<\/a> by <a title=\"View ThePoliticalHat's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/188606198\/ThePoliticalHat#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ThePoliticalHat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1603804210914820097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Rufo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Texas vs. DEI In Higher Education\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Texas has seen bills introduced to stop Critical Gender Theory and Critical Race Theory.  Now, a bill has been introduced to stop the state colleges and universities engaging in the praxis of 'Diversity', 'Inclusion', and 'Equity' (AKA 'DEI', or more accurately the 'DIE' agenda).  \" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Flag-of-Texas.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Texas has seen bills introduced to stop Critical Gender Theory and Critical Race Theory. Now, a bill has been introduced to stop the state colleges and universities engaging in the praxis of \u201cDiversity\u201d, \u201cInclusion\u201d, and \u201cEquity\u201d (AKA \u201cDEI\u201d, or more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/01\/17\/texas-vs-dei-in-higher-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[19,33,25,24,48],"class_list":["post-19850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-gop","tag-higher-ed","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19851,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions\/19851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}