Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential campaign with a live discussion on Twitter, promising to fight “woke ideology.” We fact-checked his claims about open borders, classroom lessons, and whether “the whole book ban thing is a hoax.”
es audio cutting in and out for 15 minutes, sometimes leaving long silences. When the audio finally steadied, DeSantis promised success. "If you nominate me, you can set your clock to Jan. 20, 2025, at high noon," he said,"because on the west side of the U.
S. Capitol, I will be taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the United States. No excuses." DeSantis filed his paperwork to run for president in the afternoon of May 24 and then held the Twitter discussion with platform CEO Elon Musk, moderated by DeSantis supporter and tech entrepreneur David Sacks. As hundreds of thousands of people crowded into the virtual room, DeSantis continued his long-running promise to fight"woke ideology" and fielded questions from conservative activists about immigration, COVID-19 shutdowns, school book bans and The Walt Disney Co."We eliminated critical race theory from our K through 12 schools.", known as the"Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act" or the"Stop W.O.K.E. Act". The bill bans workplaces and schools from teaching that anyone"must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress" based on their race as a result of actions by others in the past.is a broad set of ideas about systemic bias and privilege. The theory, which has existed in academia for decades, holds that racism is part of a broader pattern in America: It is woven into laws, and it shows up in who gets a job interview, the sorts of home loans people are offered, how they are treated by police, and other facets of daily life large and small. More than one dozen states have banned critical race theory in public schools.said that state Board of Education standards consider the the teaching of critical race theory as a distortion of historical events. Opponents of critical race theory suggest that the theory is pervasive in K-12 schools, but University of Missouri education professor LaGarrett King"The majority of teachers are not even familiar with what critical race theory is, nor do they teach it in their classrooms," King said. "So the whole book ban thing is a hoax. There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida."about Florida book bans, DeSantis’ statement downplays book removals that his own administration has acknowledged. "Fact: School districts are required to report the number of books removed from schools based on legislation passed in 2022," a DeSantis administrationMarch 8."Of the 23 districts that reported removing materials, the most removed were tied at 19 in Duval and St. Johns Counties — not even close to a whole classroom library. Of the 175 books removed across the state, 164 were removed from media centers, and 153 were identified as pornographic, violent, or inappropriate for their grade level." On May 17, PEN America, a group that tracks book bans and advocates for free expression, joined book publisher Penguin Random House in Florida’s Escambia County school district and its school board after several books on LGBTQ+ topics were removed from school libraries.This ignores that the military struggled with recruitment for years before President Joe Biden took office in 2021.
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