Florida Bill Bans CRT in Schools & Workplaces

The Florida general assembly will see a bill that has now passed through committee about banning Critical Race Theory.

QUICK FACTS:

• The Florida legislature is entertaining a bill that would ban Critical Race Theory from both the public school system and workplaces.
• According to the Center Square Florida, the bill has left committee and is now before the Florida state legislature.
• The legislation doesn’t call out CRT by name, rather it attempts to block the problematic ideologies in how they treat individuals differently based on race and other divides.
• The bill itself extends equal protections to all nationalities and prohibits employment discrimination according to The National Review.

Can someone pls define “white discomfort”?

Is teaching slavery as part of US history, “white discomfort”?

Is telling an employee not to call a colleague “boy”, or a racial epithet, “white discomfort”?

Is Hispanic workers talking Spanish amongst themselves, “white discomfort”? https://t.co/pAcDi6Ik8u

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) January 19, 2022

MISREPRESENTATION OF THE BILL:

• The Associated Press was criticized for an article that claimed the bill would “shield whites from ‘discomfort’ of racist past.” 
• CNN’s Ana Navarro-Cárdenas joined the criticism putting forward a series of seemingly unconnected questions that included the words “white discomfort,” in a tweet that railed against the bill.  
• According to The National Review that was a decided “misrepresentation” of Florida’s anti-CRT bill.

BACKGROUND:

• This bill, and its companion in the Senate appear to be a fulfillment of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s promise to ban CRT from public schools if he was elected, as MSN News reported.
• The DeSantis supported bill will allow parents to sue a school district they suspect of teaching CRT and recover attorney fees if they prevail, according to The New York Post.