After hours of discussion and debate, the GOP-controlled House voted 70-19 in favor of the bill, HB1775, which now heads to Gov. Kevin Stitt's desk to be signed into law.

It would prevent a number of topics, including that "one race or sex is inherently superior to another," and that "an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive," from being taught in the state.

The sponsor of the bill, Republican state Rep. Kevin West said in a statement that students are being taught that because they're a certain race or sex, they're "inherently superior to others or should feel guilty for something that happened in the past."

"We're trying to set boundaries that we as a state say will not be crossed when we're teaching these kinds of subjects," West said.

Democrats argued that the bill was a waste of time and addressed a problem that doesn't exist.

"Instead of focusing on the real issues facing Oklahomans, the majority party continues their attack on anyone in Oklahoma who might not look, think, love, or act like them," said state House Minority Leader Rep. Emily Virgin, a Democrat from Norman.

Critical race theory has gradually proliferated in recent decades through academia, government structures, school systems, and the corporate world. It redefines human history as a struggle between the "oppressors" (white people) and the "oppressed" (everybody else), similarly to Marxism's reduction of history to a struggle between the "bourgeois" and the "proletariat."