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PA Governor Josh Shapiro Signs CROWN Act Outlawing Hair Discrimination Amidst State Crises

Pennsylvania families are watching their electricity bills spike by 6% this December, with another 15% increase looming in the new year. Hospitals are shuttering across the commonwealth, and roads resemble obstacle courses more than transportation routes.

Yet Governor Josh Shapiro spent Tuesday afternoon at a West Philadelphia hair salon, surrounded by cameras and activists, signing legislation that addresses what Democrats apparently consider the crisis of our time.

The emergency and the existential threat to Pennsylvania’s future…? Hair discrimination. Yes, really.

While PECO energy customers brace for crushing rate hikes and rural communities lose their last remaining hospitals, Governor Shapiro signed the CROWN Act—Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair—into law, making it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their hairstyle.

The law specifically protects “locs, braids, twists, coils, Bantu knots, afros, and extensions,” treating any workplace grooming standard that affects these styles as racial discrimination punishable under state law.

Pennsylvania is now saved....

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BizSuitStacy · M

So, the same gov't that enforces strict hair styles in the military, is now telling private businesses what dress codes they can and can't enforce.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@BizSuitStacy I agree, it's hypocritical. They shouldn't do that in the military, either.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@BizSuitStacy Gee, the Federal and Pennsylvania hair discrimination laws that were already on the books must really disturb you

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue Gov't hypocrisy? 😱
Say it ain't so.

I seem to recall the Biden the gov't recently forcing members of the military to take an experimental vaccine, or face discharge...while members of Congress and the Biden White House were exempt.

🤔

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@BizSuitStacy Experimental? Really? So you basically know nothing of where the various COVID vaccines came from.

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue How does knowing

where the various COVID vaccines came from

have anything to do with testing protocol?

Oh right, it doesn't. Lemme guess, your last biology class was in high school, and you sniffed too much formaldehyde dissecting your frog.

Tell, us how much time did the industry spend on Phase 4 clinical trials? Did you forget the jab was released under an EUA? Did you forget the gov't granted big pharma a liability shield to protect the industry from the public filing lawsuits? Did you forget that the industry changed the definition of gene therapy so the jab could be classified as a vaccine, because gene therapies are subject to far more stringent testing standards? What's the difference between mRNA and viral vector therapies? Why not go with a live or attenuated viral vaccine process instead.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@BizSuitStacy I love how you leave it implied that mRNA vaccines were something brand new when they were rolled out for COVID. You don't say it flat out, because you know you'd be lying, but you allow readers to assume that as fact. I admire your tactics, dishonest as they are.

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue uh huh...nice deflection from your incredible ignorance, regarding the differences between mRNA, viral vector, live virus and attenuated vaccines.

implied that mRNA vaccines were something brand new

When was this gene therapy previously made available to the public. We'll wait.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@BizSuitStacy I wasn't deflecting from anything. You come on the other hand, are twisting my words to make it sound like I said something I didn't. mRNA was discovered in the 1960s, and from the day of that discovery, scientists begin carefully researching how mRNA could be safely delivered into cells. (By the way, they cracked that one in the 70s. Oh, and the first mRNA flu vaccine? Tested on mice in the 1990s.)

The biggest challenge wasn't that it was dangerous to the human body. It was that mRNA would be taken up by the body and quickly degraded before it could “deliver” its message—the RNA transcript—and be read into proteins in the cells. They solved that with nanotechnology, which is where the anti-vax nut jobs get the false narrative that they're injecting chips into people. What they did is they created these things called fatty droplets, which protected the MRNA by wrapping around it like a bubble. Like a fatty little bubble.

It must be so frustrating realizing that the person you think is a complete dum-dum actually knows more than you about how mRNA vaccines were developed.

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue 🥱
Oh...copy & paste.

So, what does "emergency use authorization" mean again, turnip brain?

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue While you're at it, can you explain why the gov't provided pharma with a liability shield if this technology was so safe to use on humans. We aren't mice after all, but you are much more closely associated with rodents than most humans.

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue and why did Pfizer attempt to hide the results of their testing for 75 years?

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@BizSuitStacy Did they? Or did they just not make it public until they were sure it was safe?

You seem to have a problem with people questioning your narrative. You insult them, you put them down, and when that doesn't work because they actually know the subject matter, you throw in a red herring. A question that implies the false narrative you're not ready to give up on.

And just in case your goldfish-sized attention span doesn't let you remember that I already answered your question, I'll answer it again.

Did they? Or did they simply not make it public until they were sure it was safe?

mRNA vaccines have been in the works since before you were a gleam in the milkman's eye.

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue None of your "it's not new technology" narrative circumvents proper testing protocol.

So you keeping dodging the obvious questions because you know you're wrong, and your ignorance has been exposed.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@BizSuitStacy Again, they've had plenty of time to test. Rodent testing began in 1991. Do you think they didn't move on to larger animals, than primates, then humans? That's pretty standard. I didn't think I'd have to spell it out for you, but apparently, there's only so much room in your brain after all the mental gymnastics required to go around dressed like a girl while still considering yourself a cishet male.

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue Why can't you answer the simple question of the EUA and liability shield? Deflect again, turnip brain

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@BizSuitStacy The liability shield was because they knew that if there were any side effects that cropped up that didn't show up in testing, people like you would immediately start a class action lawsuit.

Hamster brain.

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue

f there were any side effects that cropped up that didn't show up in testing...

😂😂😂 see...you're starting to get it. That's the purpose of Phase 4 clinical trials...of which, you are their willing guinea pig...guinea pig brain.

BizSuitStacy · M

@ItsMeMorgue and what was the purpose of the EUA? And why did Pfizer attempt to obfuscate their test results from the public for 75 years?

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@BizSuitStacy Asked and answered.