Libbey Hanson and Jamie Faux join Emma Ratkovic to discuss the passing of bills H.B. 261 & H.B. 257 and what this will mean for Utah. You can read their stories covering the bills here & here. Transcript Emma Ratkovic: Hello and welcome back to News For U. I’m your host, Emma Ratkovic joined with.
H.B. 261, Utah’s bill restricting diversity, equity and inclusion practices in education, passed the House this Friday and will be sent for approval by Gov. Spencer Cox, who has already expressed support for anti-DEI measures. With a 57-13 vote, Republicans progressed the initiative to remove DEI practices within government organizations and the Utah education.
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It is rather ironic that those most active in trying to repress the freedom of speech and thought of others are most often found in the academy, high-tech information giants, and the press or precisely those who ought to be the strongest defenders of liberty. Why is this?
From history, we know that periods of great flowering of human knowledge and material advancement were strongly associated with periods where free speech and thought were allowed e.g., for a few decades in ancient Greece, during the Roman Republic (before the Empire), and the Enlightenment (Scottish, not French).