With Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis seemingly eyeing a run for president in 2024 and his continued pressure on left-leaning Disney as they go increasingly woke, the multinational national corporation seems to have unleashed the hounds to smear him with lies on a national level. Enter the cackling coven of ABC’s The View (owned by Disney), who on Thursday unloaded truly insane accusations; accusing DeSantis of trying to remove ALL black history from Florida schools with the goal of “eras[ing]” all minorities.
Addressing the Republican response to Tuesday’s State of the Union by Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Whoopi “the Holocaust isn’t about race” Goldberg suggested Sanders and DeSantis had learned black history and were “scared” of it. Thus, they were trying “to close the doors” on the Little Rock Nine and hide black history from students in their states:
GOLDBERG: Sarah Sanders, this one in [Florida] … This is what I'm trying to figure out. What did you learn that scared you so badly that you are trying to remove this from schools? Now, you know, Arkansas -- Sarah Sanders is saying things are moving forward. That her dad and Clinton held doors open for the Arkansas --
HAINES: The Little Rock Nine.
GOLDBERG: The Little Rock Nine. And I'm trying to figure out why you're trying to close those doors. What are you doing? Why are you -- what is this?
She went on to lash out at the Republican base DeSantis was supposedly appealing to by claiming they were using their “anger” “to pretend an entire section of the United States [black Americans] doesn't exist.”
FACT CHECK: Pants on fire disinformation. Republicans are not trying to make people believe black people “don’t exist.” A truly insane accusation.
Faux conservative and Republican basher for hire, Alyssa Farah Griffin claimed she spoke for “my party” and whined: “What Ron DeSantis did with banning AP black history, that is going way further than what many members of my party have raised concerns with.”
Without evidence, she asserted DeSantis was “literally talking about erasing history.” “This is straight-up saying we're not going to learn about slavery, we’re not going to learn about the Civil War,” she proclaimed.
FACT CHECK: Misinformation. The College Board revised the AP course curriculum, resubmitted it to Florida’s Department of Education, and it was approved (something The View has refused to acknowledge). And the only thing “straight-up” about what she was accusing DeSantis of was the straight-up LIE about the course content. Florida mandates schools teach students about “the enslavement experience,” “abolition,” and “the history and contributions of Americans of the African diaspora to society.”
Tacitly admitting she was “nuts,” Goldberg admitted that the point of having critical race theory influence what students learned was for white students to feel like oppressors:
And I know we have to go, but think about this: If you're so concerned that your children – and particularly I'm talking about white children because that's the conversation that they seem to be having. If you're so concerned that white children are going to feel bad because history happened and they happen to be white, how do you think black kids are feeling?
Things took a dangerous and unhinged turn as Goldberg ended the segment by accusing DeSantis of trying to “erase” all minorities. “If they erase one, they’re going to erase all,” she screamed.
The View’s truly insane lies and smears against DeSantis were made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Procter & Gamble and Vicks. Their contact information is linked so you can tell them about the lies they fund.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
February 9, 2023
11:19:21 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: One of the things that I realized yesterday is that all these folks are of a certain age. Sarah Sanders, this one in --
JOY BEHAR: Nancy Mace?
GOLDBERG: No. No. The –
SARA HAINES: Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz?
GOLDBERG: No. Florida.
HAINES: DeSantis.
GOLDBERG: All of a certain age. And they all learned about black history. They all learned it. So, I want to know --
BEHAR: How do you know that?
GOLDBERG: Because I know that they knew more than there was slaves. They knew the things that some black folks did. So, I know they learned that.
BEHAR: That's what they're trying to suppress so nobody else knows that.
GOLDBERG: This is what I'm trying to figure out. What did you learn that scared you so badly that you are trying to remove this from schools? Now, you know, Arkansas -- Sarah Sanders is saying things are moving forward. That her dad and Clinton held doors open for the Arkansas --
HAINES: The Little Rock Nine.
GOLDBERG: The Little Rock Nine. And I'm trying to figure out why you're trying to close those doors. What are you doing? Why are you -- what is this?
(…)
11:21:35 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: Listen, the [Republican] base needs to understand everybody is pissed about something. You know, the last three or four years have not been great for everybody and possibly for anybody. How dare you use that, your anger, to pretend an entire section of the United States doesn't exist.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But can I say one thing?
GOLDBERG: You can.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Because I think this is really important.
What Ron DeSantis did with banning AP black history, that is going way further than what many members of my party have raised concerns with.
So, there’s a lot of parents who get concerned with elements of critical race theory getting into school—
GOLDBERG: Listen, I'm going to say this one more time. Elements of critical race theory are not taught to 5-year-olds, it’s not taught to 8-year-olds, it’s not taught to 10-year-olds. 10-year-olds learn -- Listen, you know what? If you're scared of American history -- I don't get it.
FARAH GRIFFIN: But I do think it's an important distinction because what he's doing is so absurd and it’s going so far. You're literally talking about erasing history. Not bringing in the theories and the theoreticals the more college level stuff. This is straight up saying we're not going to learn about slavery, we’re not going to learn about the Civil War.
GOLDBERG: Right. That’s also happening in Texas.
FARAH GRIFFIN: I just want to kind of separate those two. Not that both don’t deserved to be discussed; but that's going dangerously far.
(…)
11:23:29 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: The thing for me that makes me nuts – And I know we have to go, but think about this: If you're so concerned that your children – and particularly I'm talking about white children because that's the conversation that they seem to be having. If you're so concerned that white children are going to feel bad because history happened and they happen to be white, how do you think black kids are feeling?
[Applause]
BEHAR: That's right. But they don't care, Whoopi.
GOLDBERG: The reason that black history has come into the zeitgeist, the reason Asian history is coming into the zeitgeist, the reason any other history than English-American history is because nobody was represented. That is why this history is coming. And the great thing about America has always been, yeah, we know we step in it, but we try to step back from it. And what we're doing now is too dangerous for us to say it doesn't affect -- it affects us all. If they erase one, they’re going to erase all.
