As Florida's new history standards face fierce criticism, Gov. Ron DeSantis keeps talking, but as stevebenen writes, nothing he's saying makes him or his state look any better.
, highlighting several parts in which the standards reflected “the clumsy influence of partisan politics.” For example, conservative and Republican figures from history are elevated in the document, which also referenced a civil rights law that doesn’t exist., “In the high school section, instruction for the antebellum period includes 28 separate standards, of whichOnly two — if I’m counting generously — have anything to say about the conditions of slavery.
For his part, the governor’s initial line was that he “wasn’t involved” in the creation of the standards. “I didn’t do it and I wasn’t involved in it,”This attempt at avoiding responsibility might’ve been more persuasive if the Florida Republican hadn’t appointed the board members who wrote and approved the controversial standards.
But just as notable was DeSantis’ other line to reporters on Friday: In reference to his state’s new standards, the struggling presidential candidate, “They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life.” In other words, as DeSantis sees it, the most controversial line in the Florida State Board of Education’s new standards is entirely defensible, and slavery indirectly benefited “some of the folks” who were bought, sold, and treated as property.. The far-right candidate, in other words, really ought to know better.
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