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Florida House passes ‘Stop WOKE Act’ to limit talks on race, gender, and discrimination in schools, workplaces
thehill.com/changing-ameri…
@AllenLEllison - A message for Ron DeSantis. White supremacists are jumping on your anti-woke bandwagon because it serves their agenda. You love it and accept it because it serves yours. They are one in the same. #Staywoke #BlackHistoryMonth
Florida has two senators in the United States - govtrack.us/congress/membe…

FLORIDA Senators - flsenate.gov/Senators

Stop WOKE” Act (HB 7) - flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2…

FLORIDA House of Representatives - myfloridahouse.gov/representatives
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No, DeSantis is NOT erasing black history nor is he blocking African-American Studies. This is an outright lie. If you would like to see what the “Stop WOKE act” is, I’m tweeting it directly to this thread from the bill language itself. Its an anti-racist bill. #StopWokeAct
The bill specifies that subjecting any individual, as a condition of employment, membership, certification, licensing, credentialing, or passing an examination, to training, instruction, or any other required activity; or subjecting any K-20 public education student
Or employee to training or instruction, that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual to believe the following concepts constitutes an unlawful employment practice or unlawful discrimination:
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As #DeSantisDestroysFlorida is trending (again), it behooves us to chronicle the many ways higher education in the state is under attack.

1: In 2021 @UF barred 3 professors from serving as expert witnesses in a voting rights case against the state ...
aaup.org/news/universit…
@UF The case targeted legislation strongly supported by DeSantis that inhibited access to the ballot. After the university's accreditor announced an investigation, UF reversed their decision & allowed the professors to testify.
npr.org/2021/11/05/105…
When the attempt to use the power & pressure of the state to silence scholars w/ expertise failed, a new plan was hatched: change accreditors.
“These accreditation agencies have an inordinate amount of power to shape these universities,” DeSantis said.
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insidehighered.com/news/2022/12/1…
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