Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law on Wednesday a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, making the state one of a few to enact broad measures against what she and other Republicans call a leftward tilt in U.S. education.

The bill, which passed Alabama’s Republican-led legislature on Tuesday, bans public schools from maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion offices or teaching what the bill calls “divisive concepts” about race and identity, such as that of holding people of one race responsible for actions committed by the same racial group in the past.

It also requires public institutions of higher education to designate bathrooms as only for males or females, a move that counters transgender rights advocates’ push for gender-neutral bathrooms.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 months ago

    The whole ‘homophobes are secretly gay’ thing, while there are some examples where that is true, essentially blames gay people for their own oppression.

    It also doesn’t reflect any other type of bigotry I can think of.

    If you said something like ‘antisemites are secretly Jews,’ everyone would think you were nuts. But somehow ‘if you hate queer people, you’re probably one of them’ is widely accepted amongst progressive people.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 months ago

        My logic suggests the exact opposite. That the root of bigotry is bigots, not the people they are bigoted against.

        • cmoney@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          And I’m saying that gay people as well as Jewish people can also be bigoted towards each other, but I’m not suggesting that they are the root of why the bigotry existed in the first place.