California state assemblyman Carl DeMaio is blasting AJR 31 for what he calls racist and discriminatory treatment of Californians, framing it as a violation of equal protection under the 14th Amendment. The pushback framing this as "dividing us along racial lines" is the standard conservative move: any policy that acknowledges race-based harm automatically becomes the real discrimination. Equal protection arguments from the right always conveniently ignore what we're supposedly supposed to be equal about.