by Penny Starr
Breitbart.com
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is doubling down on his criticism of critical race theory being taught in American classrooms, saying on Monday the curriculum is “based on historical falsehoods.”
DeSantis made the remarks at Florida International University, where he blamed “corporate” media for promoting the ideology.
“There’s a movement now in some of the elite corporate outlets to gaslight people about what critical race theory is,” DeSantis told reporters. “I saw one thing saying Texas has a bill, ‘they don’t want people to learn about slavery,’ that’s nonsense.”
“You teach the facts,” DeSantis said. “You teach everything that’s happened. But what critical race theory is, is basically race essentialism.”