A DeSantis Speech Too Dangerous to Teach in Florida - The Atlantic

If Florida teachers allowed their students to read DeSantis's speech, they might ask about the motive for the attack. A teacher who explained that the shooter was motivated by white-supremacist hatred would risk making a white student feel discomfort, "guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress," as the law itself puts it. If the teacher tried to put the speech in context, and attempted to explain the ideological tenets, origins, and history of white supremacy in the United States, they would increase that risk. A teacher could not explain why someone would, as DeSantis put it, target people "based on their race," because it would lead to answers about the history of Florida and America that the governor and other Republicans would prefer students not learn, lest they have nonconservative thoughts…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/desantis-speech-too-dangerous-teach-florida/675228/