{"id":1662562,"date":"2022-09-28T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662562"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:39:00","slug":"teachers-union-prez-tries-to-school-desantis-but-shes-the-one-who-needs-a-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-prez-tries-to-school-desantis-but-shes-the-one-who-needs-a-history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Union Prez Tries To \u2018School\u2019 DeSantis \u2014 But She\u2019s The One Who Needs A History Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fteachers-union-prez-tries-to-school-desantis-but-shes-the-one-who-needs-a-history-lesson%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>American Federation of Teachers union President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/randi-weingarten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randi Weingarten<\/a> attempted to educate Florida Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R) \u2014 but as it turned out, she was the one who was in need of a history lesson.<\/p>\n<p>The online scuffle began with a comment from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/media-democrats-race-to-make-hurricane-ian-all-about-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeSantis<\/a> about the founding of the United States and the fact that the prescription for the end of slavery was effectively written into the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing \u201cThe 1619 Project,\u201d DeSantis said, \u201cThey want to teach our kids that the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery, and that\u2019s false. We know why the American Revolution was fought. They wrote pamphlets, we saw them dump tea into the Boston Harbor. We saw them meet in Philadelphia, and we have the records of why they revolted against King George III.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis went on to say that the American Revolution had caused people to \u201cquestion\u201d slavery as an institution, noting that never before had a nation written into its founding documents the concept that all men had been \u201ccreated equal\u201d in the eyes of both their Creator and the laws of men.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Emperor Desantis gives his absurdly false version of how he expects history to be taught: \u201cIt was the American Revolution that caused people to question slavery. No one had questioned it before we decided as Americans that we are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nw8SMmGCUw\">pic.twitter.com\/Nw8SMmGCUw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1573088502409043970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weingarten chimed in then, arguing that the 3\/5 compromise \u2014 which limited the political power of slave states and was written with an eye toward encouraging slave states to end the practice entirely \u2014 was actually written to enshrine the practice into law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American Revolution was about leaving Britain. If America\u2019s founders questioned slavery there would not have been the heinous \u20183\/5 compromise\u2019 in the US Constitution, which was drafted and enacted AFTER the American Revolution. This is basic history \u2026,\u201d Weingarten claimed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The American Revolution was about leaving Britain. If America\u2019s founders questioned slavery there would not have been the heinous \u201c3\/5 compromise \u201c in the US Constitution, which was drafted and enacted AFTER the American Revolution. This is basic history\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QkwBFF7CkX\">https:\/\/t.co\/QkwBFF7CkX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randi Weingarten \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83c\udf93 (@rweingarten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1574937266375385089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics swiftly descended on Weingarten, however, delivering a remedial course in American history via quote-tweet after the union president limited replies to her initial tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRx This historical illiterate, @rweingarten, has no idea what she is talking about. The 3\/5ths compromise happened because slavery was actively being questioned. The solution to slavery was baked into the constitution,\u201d one user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gormogons\/status\/1575160196506144770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> in response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust to be clear, this woman who has a massive influence on American education doesn\u2019t know \u2018basic history\u2019 well enough to know the 3\/5ths compromise was proposed by northern delegates to keep southern states from bolstering the institution of slavery,\u201d Mark Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1575133128083005441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis lady is a moron,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roddreher\/status\/1575130950362697733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came from<\/a> Rod Dreher. \u201cThe reason for the compromise is that Northerners were opposed to slavery. Better hope she is not teaching your kids history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf America\u2019s leaders didn\u2019t question the idea of slavery [w]ouldn\u2019t it have just been a 5\/5 agreement? This moron runs the teacher\u2019s union,\u201d Jim Hanson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimHansonDC\/status\/1575098335270416384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wondered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just beautiful. The head of one of the largest teachers unions in the country openly demonstrates that she has absolutely no grasp of basic American history \u2014 or she is purposefully lying,\u201d Leonydus Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeonydusJohnson\/status\/1575089146171129856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cEither way, it is a perfect representation of the abysmal state of govt education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michele Tafoya quoted freed-slave Frederick Douglass, who said of the Constitution, \u201cNow, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rweingarten<\/a> \u201cNow, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.\u201d<br \/>Frederick Douglass <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nhdxaarrRU\">https:\/\/t.co\/nhdxaarrRU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Michele_Tafoya\/status\/1575121741990461441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Federation of Teachers union President Randi Weingarten attempted to educate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) \u2014 but as it turned out, she was the one who was in need of a history lesson. The online scuffle began with a comment from DeSantis about the founding of the United States and the fact that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1662564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}