That Vice President Kamala Harris continues to outright lie about what is in Florida’s social studies standards is unsurprising. That so many in the media are giving her cover is a little disturbing.

Even some former conservatives are giving her cover. The View’s Alyssa Farah posted a picture of the standards (which read: “Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation). Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”). She then tweeted:

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This is simply a misreading of what the standards say. The standards do not say that some slaves benefited from slavery. The standards say that some slaves were taught skills and that those slaves benefited from having those skills. Which is true! Here is what the Library of Congress says:

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Nothing in this passage, or Florida’s standards, detracts from the fact that slavery was and is evil. But it is just false to say all slaves were unskilled. There were many slaves that did develop professional skills, and sometimes they were allowed to use those skills to earn money and buy their freedom.

I understand that media stars like Alyssa don’t like DeSantis and want a different candidate to win the Republican nomination. But that does not give them a license to rewrite history.