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House votes to ban stereotyping in diversity training
Republicans in the Iowa House have voted to forbid introducing what the bill calls “divisive concepts” like gender or race-based stereotypes in diversity training for staff and students at most publicly-funded institutions in the state.
The bill would bar public schools and universities as well as any state or local government agency from having diversity training that suggests the United States or the State of Iowa is “fundamentally racist.”
“I believe that teaching or applying a certain characteristic to a certain group of people based on color is the very definition of racism,” said Representative Steven Holt, a Republican from Denison, “and the way I was raised, that’s un-American.”
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Former Speaker of the Iowa House Linda Upmeyer has been elected co-chair of the Republican Party of Iowa, while Jeff Kaufmann has been reelected as chair.
The Republican Party of Iowa’s State Central Committee has voted unanimously to reelect Chairman Jeff Kaufmann and elect former Speaker of the Iowa House Linda Upmeyer as the party’s co-chair. The votes follow the Iowa GOP’s sweeping victories at the ballot box last November, bolstered by support for President Donald Trump, but they come at a time when the national party is increasingly divided over the future role of Trump, after a mob of his extremist supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.