I could spam links all day long showing republicans that support his actions. And then you'd respond by attacking and discrediting the republicans I posted. An NPC is nothing if not predictable. And your first two links are the same article. And the Forbes article doesn't ask about Disney, it refers to a poll with language about punishing companies on political stances, yes, but the wording isn't the same. DeSantis is removing preferential treatment, and his constituency supports the law Disney was saying they would "actively work to overturn". From your article": Half of U.S. voters support laws banning classroom discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity for children age 5-11, including 69% of Republicans and 36% of Democrats. Also from the "poll" in your "article": Presented with a list of prominent politicians, a full 25% of Republican respondents said DeSantis best represents the values of their party, second only to former President Donald Trump who was favored by 40% of Republicans. Texas Governor Greg Abbott garnered 9%.
Good read about the psychological randomness of the looney left (and the NPC). The Bogeyman Evaluating the attacks on Florida governor Ron DeSantis Dave Seminara May 6, 2022 Days after the 2020 election, I wrote a column predicting that the search for a new conservative bogeyman would begin. The Left has settled on its preferred villain: Florida governor Ron DeSantis. My home state has long been reviled by progressives, and many now view our governor as an example of everything wrong with the United States. In the DeSantis era, the Sunshine State represents either freedom or tyranny, depending on your politics. Yet amid the avalanche of negative, misleading, and false stories about DeSantis, he enjoys a sizable lead in polling in a state that only recently gained a slim majority of registered Republicans. Let’s examine some of the spurious charges against him. His approach to classroom issues endangers kids. To say that Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law (often mislabeled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill) has been controversial would be an understatement. U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, among others, said that the bill would lead children to commit suicide (borrowing a dubious talking point), while the media painted a distorted picture of the legislation. Many outlets gave readers the impression that the law prohibited teachers from saying the words “gay” or “homosexual,” but their coverage often left out or buried the fact that the law applies only to students in kindergarten through third grade, and several journalists suggested that the law would prohibit students from asking their teachers questions about gender identity or sexual orientation. In fact, the law covers only “classroom instruction” on such matters and doesn’t prohibit casual conversations about these topics. A recent poll indicated that 67 percent of parents and 61 percent of overall respondents support the legislation. His approach to Covid endangers the elderly. Florida’s resistance to lockdowns and mandates has been vindicated over time, not that you’d know it from media coverage or the “DeathSantis” moniker coined by left-wing activists. Using raw Covid numbers, rather than age-adjusted mortality rates, made Florida’s performance appear worse than it was. The state has the second-highest percentage (21 percent) of residents aged 65 and over, and that doesn’t fully reflect the large, elderly snowbird and seasonal-visitor population that flocks to the state each year. Given Covid’s disproportionate toll on the elderly, failing to adjust for age when comparing state death tolls is misleading. On an age-adjusted basis, Florida ranks 31 out of 50 in per capita Covid deaths. Florida also had significantly fewer nursing home deaths per capita than did New York or New Jersey, its schools reopened by August 2020, and its economy is booming. He bullied kids into removing their masks. Democrats and many media outlets branded DeSantis a “bully” for scolding students at the University of South Florida into taking off their masks earlier this year. “You do not have to wear those masks, I mean please take them off. Honestly, it’s not doing anything and we have to stop with this Covid theater. If you want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous.” When he said it, several students started laughing and at least four of them immediately took their masks off. Some kept their masks on, and DeSantis didn’t belabor the point. In any case, the media’s outrage and subsequent claims that the episode was proof that DeSantis is “anti-science” are ridiculous. The Daily Beast (one of the NPC's favorite rags), for example, said that DeSantis had offered students “terrible, anti-science” advice. The Palm Beach Post opined that DeSantis’s actions were a “blatant attempt to pander to the most anti-science elements of society.” At the time, the media framed anyone who objected to mask mandates as anti-science, but a few weeks later, mask mandates of all sorts were scrapped. He’s bullying the Walt Disney Corporation. When Florida Republicans voted to dissolve Disney’s self-governing status, Democratic state legislators howled in protest. Revoking Disney’s special status is obviously political retribution for the company’s distorting and grandstanding against the Parental Rights in Education Law. But Disney had a deal like no other employer in Florida—one that’s impossible to justify even if the company wasn’t taking a partisan stand. Don’t Democrats profess to oppose corporatist special treatment? He’s banning books. In March, DeSantis signed legislation that allows parents to object to educational materials used in schools. And the Florida Department of Education recently rejected 41 percent of the math textbooks under consideration. Many were ruled out for nonpolitical reasons; others were disqualified for inappropriately political material. Officials provided examples of offending books. In one, a word problem used data portraying conservatives as far more racist than liberals. CNN, NBC, and other news outlets provided images of the offending word problem but downplayed it in typically dishonest coverage. In any case, the notion of book-banning is a red herring. Publishers are producing an avalanche of woke children’s literature, some with LGBT themes and pornographic content. Many schools are offering or assigning these titles to kids. Parents, with support from DeSantis, have pushed back. Liberals have met the removal of these books from libraries or curricula with outrage, but how would they feel if schools assigned children to read, say, conservative firebrand Matt Walsh’s satire Johnny the Walrus or Bethany Bomberg’s book Pro-Life Kids? He’s a racist. DeSantis recently signed the Stop Woke bill, which prevents schools and employers from pushing critical race theory. MSNBC host Joy Reid tweeted that DeSantis was “anti-Black” and guilty of child abuse for having some black boys around him for a photo when he signed the bill. A liberal Florida legislator and other Democrats weighed in, insisting that the boys must not have known what the law was about. Not so, says former NFL player Jack Brewer, who works with the kids, and has threatened to sue Reid for defamation. He’s a dictator. When NBA player Enes Freedom recently posted a photo with DeSantis on Instagram and Twitter, for example, hundreds of progressives asked him how he could pose with a “dictator” or “authoritarian” while critiquing China and other repressive regimes. One liberal PAC recently compared DeSantis to Fidel Castro, while Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried has compared him to Castro and Adolf Hitler. These attacks don’t merit a response. When DeSantis took office in January 2019, Florida had 257,175 more registered Democrats than Republicans. The GOP now has 89,528 more Republicans than Democrats—a remarkable swing of 346,703 voters during his tenure. And the state’s population continues to grow. Apparently, Americans love his brand of tyranny.
DeSantisLand continues to be the laughing stock of the nation. Only 3 reviewers out of 125 rejected the state math books for having "CRT". One of the high school math books was rejected because it merely had pictures of two black mathematicians. None of the three reviewers rejecting the books had any educational background that made them qualified to review math textbooks -- none of the three met the Florida state qualifications to be reviewing math text books. All three belong to right-wing conservative organizations. Two are students at Hillsdale College in Michigan, a Christian school that has become influential in conservative politics. One of them is merely a sophomore studying politics with no math background whatsoever. Only 3 reviewers said Florida math textbooks violated CRT rules. Yet state rejected dozens https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article261354647.html When the Florida Department of Education announced it was rejecting 54 math textbooks, it pointed to a “thorough review” process that found more than half of those books included “prohibited topics,” including critical race theory and social-emotional learning. A Miami Herald review of nearly 6,000 pages of textbook examinations, however, shows just three state reviewers — including a sophomore studying politics at a conservative college in Michigan — said four math books violated a state rule that prohibits the teaching of critical race theory. The state defines the theory as a concept that “racism is embedded in American society and its legal system in order to uphold the supremacy of white persons.” The three represent 2.4 percent of the 125 math textbook reviewers. The three were the only ones who said the books they reviewed had “very poor” or “poor” alignment to the state’s CRT rule. Fifteen others raised questions about potential problems with race-related lessons, but said the books had “fair,” “good” or “very good” alignment with the state’s rule. The Herald determined a review did not follow the CRT rule when a reviewer rated the book a “very poor” or “poor” regarding its alignment with the state standard. The Herald review also showed the department zeroed in on potential violations in race-related content, yet the overwhelming majority of state reviewers found no evidence of prohibited topics. The department later approved 19 of the 54 books that were initially rejected, claiming that publishers removed “woke content.” But the state has not provided specific examples of what the publishers fixed or removed. The state’s math textbook review process has drawn national attention and underscores the escalating effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican leaders to fight what they claim is the “indoctrination” of students, from K-12 to the university system to local school boards. THREE REVIEWERS LINKED TO CONSERVATIVE POLITICS “You know, two plus two equals four. It’s not two plus two and let’s have a struggle over that,” DeSantis said at a press conference after the department’s announcement. “We want to make sure we’re focusing on teaching kids how to get the right answer and not being diverted by ideologies and other types of stuff that really isn’t pertinent to any of this.” Yet, records show the three individuals who warned the state about critical lessons of race in the math textbooks are themselves linked to conservative political circles. The department has not released the input from the public comment, so it remains unclear how much feedback came from that front. Chris Allen, who is part of the Indian River County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a group started during the pandemic to increase parental involvement in schools and that took part in the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, said the two books she reviewed were “agenda driven” and “biased.” Allen, an aerospace engineer whose education credentials include a stint as a substitute teacher years ago, pointed to lessons that focused on vaccinations, which she said should not be discussed in schools because “it’s a parent’s choice.” She said one of the books was “biased” because it talked about “climate change as if it’s fact,” and also warned the books contained “critical race theory elements,” citing a few lesson plans, including one that stated racism and poverty still exist in the United States. The other two reviewers — Jordan Adams and Jonah Apel — are from Hillsdale College in Michigan, a Christian school that has become influential in conservative politics. Adams is a civics education specialist at the college, and Apel, the college sophomore, is listed as the secretary of the Hillsdale College Republicans, a group whose mission includes connecting students to the “political arena” and “changing the United States in accordance with truth, liberty and human flourishing.” QUESTIONS ON HOW FLORIDA SELECTED ITS TEXTBOOK REVIEWERS Adams and Apel both declined to be interviewed by the Herald about their role in reviewing the books, referring all questions to the department of education. Apel, however, confirmed Thursday he was a student at Hillsdale College. It’s unclear what criteria he met to qualify as a state expert. In his review of an algebra and trigonometry textbook, he said he found “several places where CRT could be said to be present, albeit usually indirectly” and said the book was poorly aligned with state standards, according to his review. Allen defended her findings in an interview with the Herald, saying she wished other state reviewers “could’ve seen the information I saw.” “I’m very happy that the state found that my findings were accurate enough to reject the books,” she said. The department of education did not directly respond to questions from the Herald about how the state selected Adams, Apel or Allen to review its books, or specify what their qualifications were. Cassie Palelis, a spokeswoman for the department, only said the reviewers the state picked were “qualified.” “As is always the case during the instructional materials adoption process, the Florida Department of Education sought reviewers to evaluate materials, and the reviewers who conducted these evaluations were qualified,” she said. TEXTBOOK REVIEWER CREDENTIALS SET FORTH BY STATE To be accepted as an expert reviewer, the state requires an applicant to have at least one of four credentials in math: a master’s degree or higher; an educator certification; substantial experience with evidence of mathematics content expertise and student achievement; or, recognition as a math content expert, such as receiving awards or being published in math. The department’s criteria specifically said reviewers should have at least five years of experience teaching in the grade levels of the books they would be considering. The math textbook review process took place when former Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran was still at the helm of the department. In a May 2021 speech at Hillsdale College, Corcoran spoke of the need to get “crazy liberal stuff” out of the state’s instructional materials. Corcoran left the department in May to join a lobbying firm based out of Washington. Sen. Manny Diaz, R-Hialeah, will serve as Florida’s next education commissioner, effective June 1. GREATER SCRUTINY FOR CRT QUESTION The department also gave greater scrutiny to one question: Do materials align to a state rule that prohibits Critical Race Theory (CRT) in instructional materials? Records show that 90 out of the 516 math textbook reviews — or 17% of all book reviews — only answered that one question. The department did not respond when asked if the state directed or allowed reviewers to give greater attention to concerns about critical race theory over issues within the math textbook lesson plans. David Aldred, an adjunct professor of law at Hillsborough Community College on the state’s west coast, reviewed several math textbooks and only responded to that one question. While he did not find any critical race theory in the textbooks, he thought one book example “could lead to a discussion of race.” The problem, he said, talked about how “government agencies and civil rights groups monitor enrollment data at universities to ensure they fully represent different groups.” Another reviewer said a different lesson could “easily open up an ‘uncomfortable’ conversation about racial disparity in [the] 1950’s based on the vagueness of the statements.” Another underscores a book example that asked: “Should colleges reserve a certain number of scholarships for minorities.” REVIEWER: ‘MOST PICTURES ARE WHITE PEOPLE, UNLESS SPORTS-RELATED’ Robin O’Brien, a 6-12 instructional specialist for the Palm Beach County School District, meanwhile, said the books she reviewed met all of the state’s standards on critical race theory because “most pictures are white people, unless sports-related.” In a separate review, O’Brien said there were no violations of critical race theory content, “however, most of the examples with cartoon people are white people.” Adams, the civics education specialist from Hillsdale College, was more clear cut on what his concerns were in the books he reviewed. While reviewing “Stats: Modeling the World,” by Pearson, he said the material may violate the state’s rule that prohibits ideas that argue racism is embedded in society because some examples talked about “race and college plans,” “racial profiling in policing,” “discrimination in magnet school admissions” and that there are “too many” white police in the NYPD compared to the racial makeup of the community. SOME BOOKS REJECTED, OTHERS NOT The more than 500 reviews for 132 math textbooks point to a vague and seemingly arbitrary approach to why certain books were rejected, while others were not. The department has only provided a few examples of texts that the public deemed inappropriate. One example about algebraic expressions titled: “What? Me? Racist?” the department highlighted on its website. Allen cited it in one of her reviews. Overall, of the 18 books where reviewers raised concerns or questions about race-related lessons, 13 were included on the state’s rejection list, despite the majority rating the book favorably. The reviewers, who included teachers, curriculum experts and university professors, answered more than 100 questions that focused on whether the book aligned with the state’s math standards, such as solving mathematical and real-world problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication or division of polynomials. Most were educators with a background in math, but a small group, including Allen, were not. Another group of reviewers focused on the book’s presentation and usability for both teachers and students, but those reviewers did not answer questions about critical race theory. O’Brien, the instructional specialist in Palm Beach County, for example, gave one textbook — “Florida Reveal Math, Grade 7” — a rating of 5. Yet, she flagged one lesson plan and wrote that “most pictures are of white people, unless sports related.” (When it came to questions about critical race thinking, reviewers assigned the book a number rating of 1-5, with 1 representing “very poor/no alignment” and 5 representing “very good alignment.”) Another reviewer, Isabella Murphy, whose occupation could not be confirmed by the Herald, simply wrote “intermarriage,” in her review of “Elementary Statistics: Painting the World,” by Pearson. She rated it a 4. The book Murphy reviewed was rejected by the state; the book O’Brien reviewed was not. Despite the rhetoric put forward by the state, an overwhelming majority of reviewers agreed there was no evidence of CRT in the curriculum. Assistant Professor Carl Clark of Indian River State College, for instance, responded bluntly to questions about critical race theory. After reviewing a high school level algebra and trigonometry book that was rejected by the state, Clark wrote: “It is a math textbook. I found no evidence of any instruction or indoctrination of social issues.”
Ahh the woke mob down in Florida doesn’t like pictures of black mathematicians in their school books so they called it critical race theory. Sounds about right.
Come Jan2025 and in the new DeSantis La Amerlika critical race theory would have a totally different new meaning. Florida teacher told students that 'Black people are beneath white people' to justify using the N-word: lawsuit According to News4JAX, a Black Florida woman, Alyse Beechem, is planning to sue Duval County Public Schools after her son, enrolled at Mandarin Middle School, was called a racial slur by his teacher and told that "Black people are beneath white people." Beechem's lawsuit alleges a pattern of racist abuse directed at her son, while also accusing faculty members of turning a blind eye or even exacerbating the problems. One such incident occurred when the son complained to the teacher about another student calling him a racial slur. "[The teacher] told [Beechem’s son] that he gets mad when someone calls him a [n-word], but he thinks he can say it about himself," the complaint alleges. "[Beechem’s son] asked his teacher...how she would feel if someone called her a 'cracker,' and she responded by calling him a [n-word], and saying, ‘you don’t have the privilege to call white people "crackers" because Black people are beneath white people.'"
DeSantis has turned the Woke/corporate nexus around Since he slapped Disney they have been silent on the issue and now Netflix has had enough... Netflix tells ‘woke’ workers to quit if they are offended: ‘culture’ memo