Texas Gov. Greg Abbott highlights immigration measures, state's economy in primetime address
FOX NewsNov 25, 2022
The Facts
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law bill SB 17 that will ban diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and initiatives across public colleges in the state beginning January 2024. It will also ban activities that seek to promote certain groups of people over others based on race, ethnicity, or gender.
It will further mandate officials to conduct biennial studies through 2029 on the impact of the law on students broken down by race, including examining rates of application, acceptance, matriculation, retention, graduation, and grade point averages.
The Spin
Right narrative
Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs aren't aimed at teaching inclusivity but rather sowing division by putting non-Whites in the "victim" category and Whites in the "victimizer" box. As a growing number of Whites begin to push back, proponents of these programs claim it's proof of their racist White identitarianism. Until the US decides to rid its educational and corporate institutions of this toxic ideology, the racial division will only worsen; it's time to return to a color-blind society.
Left narrative
There was never a color-blind America for Republicans to bring the country back to. People of color have only recently been granted access to these institutions, and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are a way to ensure the still overwhelmingly White majority population doesn't forget what it took to achieve the gains in civil rights we currently enjoy. These laws are attempts at "whitewashing" history so they can free themselves from culpability, at the very least, and further hold down historically marginalized communities at worst.
