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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.”