Cuckoo, Cuckoo Award

This week’s Cuckoo Cuckoo award goes to Ohio General Assembly.

College students are concerned over a strict new bill that could limit higher education: ‘You can say gravity isn’t true…’
“SB 83 threatens to impair [academic rigor] by proposing limitations on faculty speech.”
The Cool Down
By Jane Donohue
August 22, 2023    

In recent months, the U.S. has seen a wave of conservative legislation targeting colleges and universities. A new bill in the Ohio General Assembly follows this trend by aiming to restrict what educators can teach about our changing climate.
What’s happening?

Ohio Senate Bill 83 is a proposed bill that limits discussion surrounding “controversial beliefs or policies” on college campuses.

According to the bill, one “controversial policy” involves the changing climate. The bill demands that educators “encourage students to reach their own conclusions about all controversial beliefs or policies and shall not seek to inculcate any social, political, or religious point of view.”

Among the bill’s “controversial beliefs or policies” are those surrounding “climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion.”

Cuckoo, cuckoo! The dumbing down of America courtesy of the Republican party.

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Past winners are:

• Minn. Lawmaker with History of Making False, Anti-LGBTQ+ Claims Is Now Blaming Global Warming on Pride Month, Minnesota state Sen. Eric Lucero
• GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn Floats Conspiracy Theory On Titanic Sub And Hunter Biden, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
• Politician accuses aquarium of ‘making fake gay penguins to brainwash children’, Family First Party, Australia
• Republican Worried Drag Queens Will Launch Missiles, U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MN)
• Kill the constitution? A rewrite is Florida’s latest nutty idea, Florida state Rep. Spencer Roach
• Stephen Miller Files Complaint That Gay Pop-Tarts Are Sexualizing Kids, former Trump advisor
• Moms for Liberty Wants to Make American Kids Oblivious to Sex Ed: Report, Moms for Liberty

Let me know who your nominees are for the week!