State Sen. Chris Larson (D-07): “Either we accept that some groups are just going to have worse life outcomes because of their race, gender, or ethnicity, or we need to be able to take steps to study and address these disparities. This constitutional amendment will make addressing disparities significantly harder to achieve.”

• State Sen. Dora Drake (D-04): “Legislative Republicans had the opportunity to expand economic and educational opportunities for all Wisconsinites over a decade, yet they chose not to. Now, as many Wisconsinites are struggling more than ever, they are attempting to eliminate historically bipartisan programs and guardrails by claiming that they provide “preferential treatment” based on race, sex, ethnicity, or national origin. The authors admitted they did “no research” on existing programs or possible remedies. Instead, they proposed a misleading constitutional amendment referendum in November to promote manufactured discrimination and conceal their incompetence and neglect to help all Wisconsinites.”
• Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: “Let’s be clear: Discrimination is illegal in Wisconsin. So what would this amendment do? It would limit our governments’ ability to use certain policies and programs intended to remedy longstanding disparities based on race, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.”
• The language of this amendment is purposefully tricky to make you think you are voting for fairness when you are actually voting to make measures to keep things fair away from people who have less societal privileges.