In 2025, Senate Finance chair Jerry Cirino (R-Kirtland) got legislation passed, dramatically changing higher ed.
Ohio bill would defund public universities for promoting DEI
S.B. 1 focuses on what Cirino calls “free speech,” banning public universities in Ohio from Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, having “bias” in the classroom and limiting how “controversial topics” can and can’t be taught. "Controversial" under Ohio law includes "belief policy that is the subject of political controversy, including issues such as climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion."
A free speech education bans talking about controversal topics? Totally free speech right there. The subtle bit of speech this conveniently ignores is the speech opportunity that is being denied to the students in abstaining from attending the demonization of DEI, climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion.
What really gets me is that marriage is controversial now? What marriage stuff is controversial? Oh, right. Being against marriage equality is a hill they're wanting to die on.
No chance they'd talk about Regan sending the national guard to kill protesters of the Vietnam war?
15 Comments
azimir@lemmy.ml · 38 pts · 30d
Republicans are bullies. They have unearned power and don't know why educated, thinking, and skilled people want nothing to do with their small minded hatred.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 1 pts · 28d
On a plus side though we don't have to deal with a Harris presidency.
Burninator05@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 28d
They told me that if i voted for Harris all of the things currently happening would happen and I just wouldn't listen and I voted for Harris. I should have listened.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 28d
You are much more eloquent than I.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d
Thank goodness we now have the acceleration we need to have everyone come to their senses, put a stop to this, and institute the approved utopia.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 30d
They’ll never discover they’re the baddies.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 30d
They don't care
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 30d
COME VISIT THE MANDATORY FREE SPEECH* ZONE OR ELSE.
*limitations apply
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 30d
It would be funny, if they weren’t gearing up to force the youth through their re-education centers. Article says they have a supermajority.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 30d
Republicans are doubling-down on the brain-drain, I see.
If I were a student in that state, I'd make it crystal clear why I'm transferring out by referencing this bullshit. Loudly. To everyone - my classmates, those in charge of the college, the legislators behind it all, and any social media I had access to.
AskewLord@piefed.social · 2 pts · 28d
and then the admin will refuse to process your transcripts and you won't be able to transfer.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d
At this point, it might be best to transfer out of the country. They won't leave sane/free states ("blue" states) alone.
ProfessorScience@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 30d
Bangup job, then.
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 30d
How many hours a year will a student have to waste time listening to such propaganda?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 28d
Hm, that's weird, because the conservatives in things like the Seven Mountain Mandate would be quite happy with forced attendance of the "right" churches, too. Weird how that works. Words like "freedom" and "liberty" and the Constitution mean very different things to wingers. In their view, the Constitution was written to create a xtian nation, and people being free to ignore all their bullshit and xtians being treated just like any other religion is absolute tyranny. Same goes for all their views on everything "woke". If normal people were able to ignore them as the crazies they are, they view that as oppression. They are only "free" if the government is there to indoctrinate ridiculous absurd conservative dogma onto everyone else, under the threat of violence if needed.
I can remember when lots of Tone Police/Murc's Law dumbasses would come riding into just about every conversation to declare it's "both sides" that are "just as bad".
Oh, wait, never mind, many of them are still doing this kind of stuff...no matter how awful the conservatives get, there is always a certain type of person waiting to come in and remind everyone that Democrats are just as bad, and they allowed this, etc...