Thread by @jallen1985

THREAD: I invite everyone to compare/contrast HB 437* with SB 2113** and congratulate the Senate for producing a superior bill.

As opposed to the House bill, the Senate bill does not:

☑️ Prohibit speech vaguely or overbroadly
☑️ Impose costly regulatory requirements 1/5

https://twitter.com/jallen1985/status/1481456144983932930

☑️ Threaten undue and draconian enforcement measures
☑️ Exclude protection for ethnicity, religion, or national origin

*billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo…
**billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo… 2/5

Now, I don't think SB 2113 prohibits much of anything that actually occurs in Mississippi's public schools—and to the extent it might, any speech that currently, actually occurs but that SB 2113 would ban may not be what SB 2113's proponents imagine. 3/5

My thoughts about the non-discrimination measures in Section 1(2) are similar—I suspect the intent of that paragraph is to ban affirmative action programs that don't exist, although I can imagine other discriminatory practices it might ban. 4/5

In sum, although SB 2113 is unnecessary, it isn't a dangerous speech restriction IMO, and it doesn't create a reasonable risk of chilling speech not banned or producing other adverse unintended consequences.

Those factors make it superior to HB 437 and IMO innocuous. 5/5