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.

  • BreakDecksEnglish
    19·
    8 months ago

    Imagining a public school or university with a single toilet for the whole campus is pretty funny.

    On a side note, why is there always a highly upvoted comment on every thread like this that deliberately misinterprets the story? The headline isn’t even ambiguous, this comment is pure misinformatiin. Are ~50 of you really that bad at reading?

    It seems pretty convenient that every story about regressive right wing policy includes highly visible misinfo about it. It makes me wonder how organic the upvotes for this drivel really are.

    • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      What exactly is pure misinformation within the comment? It’s ambiguously phrased I’ll grant, but clearly they mean a “single bathroom” as in not designated for any specific gender.

      • BreakDecksEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        That this applies to private businesses.

        • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          And where exactly does the word “private” appear in their comment?