Opinion by Greg Sargent: Ron DeSantis actively wants book removals in Florida to erupt in controversy.
That’s preposterous. Those books were written expressly to introduce kids in lower grades to these topics. As Stephana Ferrell, co-founder of Florida Freedom to Read, told me: “The books celebrate Black history, culture and famous voices in a way that connects with elementary school students.” Isn’t that what we want?for removing the books is that they’re age-inappropriate, but it doesn’t even saythey’re inappropriate for elementary school kids.
All this confirms that the fever-pitch climate created by DeSantis is maximizing the impact that lone parents can have. That’s because it has encouraged officials to err on the side of caution and remove targeted titles rather than brave right-wing anger, which incentivizes parents-turned-activists to sweep ever more broadly in their efforts to ban as many titles as possible.
This is what DeSantis wants. Rather than seriously consider whether one out-of-control parent drove the process off the rails in the Gorman case, he leapt at the chance to engage in more culture-warring, this time casting the “legacy media” as the cultural enemy. DeSantis’s obvious relish of this moment shows he believes having an army of lone parents out there stirring up cultural controversies wherever possible can only help him in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries.
Diaz is wrong. The poem — a historical document and a paean to unity — should be available to all grades. But he’s right in another sense: The fact that one parent could exercise her right to make this unhinged complaint, resulting effortlessly in such an absurd outcome, did show the process working exactly as DeSantis intends.
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