Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Got Push Back In The Last Place You'd Expect, Fox News!

NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE - OCTOBER 13: Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the 2023 First in the Nation Leadership Summit on October 13, 2023 in Nashua, New Hampshire.

[Updated on 10/21/23 at 10:00 am ET]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faced pushed back on school book bans in the one place he probably didn’t expect. On Sunday, Fox News Host Shannon Bream questioned DeSantis about the hundreds of books banned in Florida classrooms.

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The notion that Florida’s relentless banning of books from classrooms is a “media hoax” obviously falls apart when you consider the fact that hundreds of books have been banned across the state. Even Bream gently pushed back, stating that Florida was banning books for “certain classrooms and age groups.”

A recent report from Pen America, a free speech group, found that Florida leads the nation in book bans by a long shot. According to their report, Florida has banned twice as many books as Texas, which holds the second spot on the book-banning list.

It’s also worth noting that the concept that all or even most of these books were banned because they were “pornographic” is absurd. For example, Ibram Kendi’s Antiracist Baby, which is on the list of banned books, isn’t “pornographic.” The children’s book just happens to support an ideology (i.e., racism is something we should be teaching our children is bad) that DeSantis and his friends vehemently disagree with.

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