A Republican lawmaker in Montana wants to prohibit mandatory diversity training for state employees with a bill whose language matches a Florida law that is temporarily blocked by the courts.
The proposed "Montana Individual Freedom Act," would prohibit diversity, equity and inclusion training as a condition of state employment if the training is aimed at having the employee believe that a group of people are responsible for "and must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress," for historical injustices.
"I think we need to work on definitions, then talk about what's appropriate to train and to whom we should be training on these topics," Trebas said."This bill is a gross mischaracterization of what is conventionally called DEI, or diversity equity and inclusion workshops," said Chris Young-Greer with the Montana Racial Equity Project.
Trebas' original bill was amended to make it clear the discussion of critical race theory as part of academic instruction was allowed -- eliminating one of the reasons Florida's law was blocked. Critical race theory is a way of looking at American history through the lens of race.
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