Univision Host Amplifies Florida Curriculum Hoax In Fox Debate – The Federalist

The Univision co-host of the Fox News Republican presidential debate reinforced false leftist narratives Wednesday night when pressing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on his states K-12 curriculum.

Univisions Ilia Calderon implied DeSantis promoted educational standards that suggested slavery benefitted the victims. The question emanates from claims Vice President Kamala Harris fabricated this summer.

Floridas new Black History curriculum says slaves developed skills that in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit,' Calderon said, ignoring that the left-wing College Board has apparently made nearly identical statements. You have said, Slaves developed skills in spite of slavery, not because of it. But many are still hurt. For descendants of slaves, this is personal. What is your message to them?

The Florida governor attacked the question as a hoax engineered by the vice president to smear Republicans as racist.

First of all, thats a hoax that was perpetrated by Kamala Harris. We are not going to be doing that, DeSantis said. Second of all, that was written by descendants of slaves. These are great black history scholars, so we need to stop playing these games.

Heres the deal, DeSantis added, Our countrys education system is in decline because its focused on indoctrination, denying parents rights. Florida represents the revival of American education.

Vice President Harris helped ignite the conspiracy theory surrounding Floridas education standards in July when she landed in Jacksonville to denounce the new curriculum for middle schoolers.

They decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery, Harris said. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.

Dr. William Allen, the former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights who helped design Floridas new curriculum, condemned the vice presidents remarks as categorically false on ABC News.

The only criticism Ive encountered so far [on the new curriculum] is a single one that was articulated by the vice president, and which was an error, said Allen, who is black. It was never said that slavery was beneficial to Africans.

Univision host Calderon went on to amplify another leftist narrative in the Fox News debate when she asked former Vice President Mike Pence about warnings from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for LGBT Americans.

The Department of Homeland Security warns violence against LGBT+ people is on the rise and intensifying, Calderon said, citing an unnamed study claiming that members of that community are nine times more likely to be victims of violent hate crimes.

As president, how would you protect this community from violent attacks and discrimination? Calderon asked.

The Federalists Eddie Scarry debunked the popular left-wing myth of an overwhelming surge in anti-LGBT crimes in his 2022 book, Liberal Misery, and even highlighted one such report from the DHS released in the final months of President Donald Trumps term.

But there was a problem with the report, Scarry wrote. There were precisely zero citations showing where the Department of Homeland Security had derived its conclusions no news articles or academic papers. Just an assurance by the acting secretary, who was particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists of late.

The agency posted another bulletin in November to garner headlines and apparently debate questions about a supposed outbreak of violence against LGBT Americans. But it cited just a few prominent episodes of anti-LGBT violence. One example DHS offered was the November shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs. The agency failed to mention the shooter identified as non-binary and used they/them pronouns.

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Univision Host Amplifies Florida Curriculum Hoax In Fox Debate - The Federalist