Wisconsin GOP is gonna ban words:

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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Can we add Truth Social to this list?

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[dalton99a]

1. There is no white privilege or white supremacy

[secondwind]

6. Social justice??????

REALLY??????

[Dirty Socialist]

21. I thought the same thing

Without social justice just about everything is fucked

[Wingus Dingus]

2. They love "woke", it's their favorite sneer.

Edit to add: Equity? Equitable? Those are ban-worthy words? LOL.

[dweller]

7. Boss: why are you late !?!

Me: because I wo XXX bzzzz

Also me: why am in jail ?


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[TygrBright]

3. They gonna have a hard time with the highway funding bill if they ban "intersection"... n/t

[SergeStorms]

4. In other words.....

the racists want to ban all references to racism. That makes perfect sense, if you're a racist.

[FakeNoose]

10. In the sense that minorities won't be allowed to describe the offenses done against them

This issimultaneously bizarre AND adsurd.

[raccoon]

5. I guess they think those words and phrases are doubleplusungood. Nt

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I wanna see this. Aren't these the folks that scream "Freedom" all the time?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Only White Supremacists would try to ban the use of the words "White Supremacy"

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[rurallib]

11. Why don't they just go full 1984 and start a Ministry for Words That Offend Us

[LakeArenal]

12. Cons are perpetually offended.

By words.

Not by sex predators, traitors, pedophiles or thieves.

[Biophilic]

13. that is one of the most fascist things I've seen in this country. What do you say to them?

Really, I'm just at a loss. I don't even know how to relate to people who think this way. Makes me mad and sad at the same time.

[Doodley]

14. A lot of words with more than two syllables. No wonder they don't use them.

[Tarc]

15. What in the holy-assed hell is "spirit murdering" ?

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. How do these douchebags expect to enforce this?

[LoisB]

17. I no longer laugh at these people. They are more dangerous than ridiculous. What is the penalty

for using one of these "banned" words? How are they going to accomplish this? Most of these appear to be racially motivated "bans" but "equity"?; how is one to describe a homeowner's net interest in his/her property? Is Wisconsin going to develop its own language?" Has the book burning started yet?

[liberalhistorian]

18. What the FUCK has

happened to Wisconsin???? Serious question!

[Blaukraut]

25. And Florida, and Texas...and and

They're going in a pretty scary direction.

[struggle4progress]

19. 'Government Bans Words' Seems Like a Free Speech Issue

By Jack Holmes
Sep 30, 2021

For years, we had to hear about the grave threat to free speech—and a free society itself—posed by students on college campuses ...

Anyway, now state governments are trying to ban words. We can expect to see all these same free-speech warriors snap to attention, surely. I'm not a constitutional law professor, but Government Bans Words strikes me as a First Amendment issue. The Wisconsin assembly is the latest state legislature to tackle the existential threat posed by Critical Race Theory, a phrase that has come to mean, for many people, "things that make me uncomfy," and which is so dangerous that any speech related to it must be policed by the government ...

Even discussing the prospect that Black people might have a bumpier ride in America is a grave horror, it seems. The only solution, in the free state of Wisconsin, is for the government to ban such discussions in public schools ...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a37804650/wisconsin-legislature-police-speech-schools-critical-race-theory/

[mjvpi]

20. I think every Congress critter in Wisconsin should have to pass an essay test......

……with 95% competency explaining each of those concepts. The scores should be made public. Then they could have the debate if they want.

[niyad]

22. How exactly, do they plan on banning them? Certainly not in personal speech.

Are we going to have "thought police"?

Anybody else remember the banned seven CDC words? I. As immediately reminded of Sandy and Richard Riccardi's "The Seven CDC Words" Parody, done to "The Seven Deadly Virtues" from the stage version of "Camelot". Hilarious.

[Ford_Prefect]

23. Like TX bill this won't pass First Amendment review. It also presumes to ban any document using any

references to these words and concepts. That would mean among other things removing them from any printed materials in the library i.e. magazines and books and Dictionaries, not to mention the classrooms and among personal property. Then there is monitoring the Web...

There are federal guidelines for funding that will probably interfere with this absurdist dogma. I predict a long and drawn out legal disaster.

The TX law was very poorly written and if the Wisconsin version used the same template it may fall simply on the basis of ineffectual and inappropriate editing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. The Texas bill is a piece of crap from a First Amendment standpoint

[CloudWatcher]

24. Sources please!

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I'm getting tired of random pix being taken at face-value. Sources people!

This list is not in the bill. The bill has no such list:

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2021/related/proposals/ab411

It is, however, in an addendum:

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lc/hearing_testimony_and_materials/2021/ab411/ab0411_2021_08_11.pdf

Btw, The Hill had this to say:

The proposal has virtually no chance of becoming law: It passed the Assembly on a party line vote, and even if it clears the Senate, it would almost certainly be vetoed by Gov. Tony Evers (D), himself a former superintendent of public instruction.

Wisconsin GOP proposes banning words from schools

Oh, and "Bans Words" is not entirely accurate. It's trying to ban the words from being used in instruction & training in schools.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. 'Woke,' 'multiculturalism,' 'equity': Wisconsin GOP proposes banning words from schools

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See https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/574567-woke-multiculturalism-equity-wisconsin-gop-proposes-banning-words-from

The Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation on a party-line vote Tuesday that would bar public schools from teaching critical race theory, the latest Republican-controlled legislative chamber to take action on a culture war issue that erupted in school board meetings around the country this summer.

The measure mirrors efforts in other states to block teachers from instructing students on concepts of racial injustice or inherent bias.

But in testimony before a Wisconsin Assembly committee considering the bill in August, one of the measure’s lead authors went farther than in other states, spelling out specific words that would be barred from the classroom.

It has come to our attention, and to some of the people who traveled here to Madison today, that a growing number of school districts are teaching material that attempts to redress the injustice of racism and sexism by employing racism and sexism, as well as promoting psychological distress in students based on these immutable characteristics,” state Rep. Chuck Wichgers (R) said of his bill. “No one should have to undergo the humiliation of being told that they are inferior to someone else. We are all members of the human race.”

Wichgers, who represents Muskego in the legislature, attached an addendum to his legislation that included a list of “terms and concepts” that would violate the bill if it became law.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

26. Next comes a list of words that are allowed, starting with "beer" and "snowmobile".

.............

I guess the words "anti-racism" being on their banned list speaks volumes.

I also noticed a bunch of phrases prefixed by the word "white" but similar phrase prefixed by words like "Asian" or "Black" would be OK?

This would also tend to reduce the literacy and IQ of Wisconsin further into the right-wing rabbit hole.

Maybe the legislature is banning these words and phrases because they're so racist, they don't comprehend them.

KY.............

[DBoon]

29. "Hmm...this page doesn't exist. Try searching for something else."

Guess I will never know.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. Fixed

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