Ron DeSantis shares wild conspiracy theory about classroom ‘smugglers’ – By Ja’han Jones (MSNBC) / January 10, 2022
Florida’s governor, selling a new bill that aims to ban school lessons about inequality, claimed educators are “smuggling” inappropriate content to American students.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a fount of conspiracy theories. His latest? Public schools are plotting to smuggle “inappropriate content” to students to implant “leftist ideology” — and they must be stopped!
There’s no evidence of this whatsoever, but that’s never prevented DeSantis from making absurd claims to rile up his right-wing base. This latest allegation came during an interview with Fox News host Mark Levin as DeSantis was selling the Stop WOKE Act, a new proposal that would allow parents to sue schools that teach “critical race theory,” the catchall term Republicans use to describe lessons about race, gender and social disparities.
“They want these kids to hate this country,” DeSantis claimed during the interview Sunday. “They want them to reject our founding, our institutions, and they want to replace that with their leftist ideology, which would obviously be disastrous for this country’s future. So the stakes are very high on that.”
