{"id":1777981,"date":"2022-12-16T15:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777981"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:03:08","slug":"pushback-starts-texas-legislator-offers-bill-to-stop-wokeness-on-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pushback-starts-texas-legislator-offers-bill-to-stop-wokeness-on-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushback Starts: Texas Legislator Offers Bill To Stop Wokeness On Campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpushback-starts-texas-legislator-offers-bill-to-stop-wokeness-on-campuses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777981&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A bill from a Texas legislator is targeting the often one-sided leftist political viewpoints present in higher education institutions, demanding that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) offices on campuses be banned.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, Texas H.B. 1006, <a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/tlodocs\/88R\/billtext\/html\/HB01006I.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">states clearly<\/a> that \u201ceach institution of higher education has the general responsibility to foster a diversity of viewpoints\u201d and to \u201cmaintain political, social and cultural neutrality.\u201d It was introduced by Republican Rep. Carl Tepper.<\/p>\n<p>The bill says that public institutions of higher education must adopt a policy that must \u201cprohibit the funding, promotion, sponsorship, or support of any office of diversity, equity, and inclusion.\u201d The institution must allow student organizations and faculty to invite speakers to speak on campus and \u201cestablish disciplinary sanctions for students, student organizations, or faculty who unduly interfere with the expressive activities of others on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill also provides an opportunity for redress for someone who feels the institution has failed in obeying the standards of the bill, allowing them to bring an action for injunctive relief to compel the institution to comply. The fees and costs that the person bringing the action would garner would come from the budget of the office of the chief executive officer of the institution or the institution\u2019s system.<\/p>\n<p>Education activist Christopher Rufo, whose dedicated work has exposed the use of Critical Race Theory-tinged curricula in schools and other organizations, praised the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cD.E.I programs have become offices of racialist ideology, speech suppression, and political indoctrination\u2014and deserve zero taxpayer support,\u201d Rufo said while announcing that he would be \u201cmaking a series of announcements early next year about a national campaign to abolish D.E.I. offices and reform higher education from the ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are assembling a team of the brightest policy minds in the country and will be *laying siege the universities*,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will be making a series of announcements early next year about a national campaign to abolish D.E.I. offices and reform higher education from the ground up. We are assembling a team of the brightest policy minds in the country and will be *laying siege the universities.*<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1603804570911911936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rufo has exposed the impact of the diversity movement numerous times: in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/city-of-seattle-holds-training-session-for-white-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle city government<\/a> in July 2020; in the company that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/company-americas-nuclear-weapons-hosted-training-session-for-white-execs-white-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designs nuclear weapons<\/a> for the United States\u00a0in August 2020; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/74580dee-be0a-44e9-ab88-0c8142098db3\/v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Unified School District<\/a> in December 2020; and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/2nd-largest-u-s-defense-contractor-goes-woke-white-straight-christian-men-must-identify-your-privilege-participate-in-reparations-decolonize-your-boo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second-largest defense contractor<\/a> in America\u00a0in July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Former Heritage Foundation president Dr. Ed Feulner has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/conservatism\/commentary\/the-state-conservatism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> of DEI programs at universities, \u201cIn some of the world\u2019s greatest universities, woke is everywhere. We\u2019re all in favor of more opportunity, but equity implies everyone will turn out equal and it has become more of a leveling down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill from a Texas legislator is targeting the often one-sided leftist political viewpoints present in higher education institutions, demanding that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) offices on campuses be banned. The bill, Texas H.B. 1006, states clearly that \u201ceach institution of higher education has the general responsibility to foster a diversity of viewpoints\u201d and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1777984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9733,6202,9731,4462,9732,6019,3694,6195,6227],"class_list":["post-1777981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-campuses","tag-daily","tag-legislator","tag-offers","tag-pushback","tag-starts","tag-texas","tag-wire","tag-wokeness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}