‘My Bad’: Teachers Union President Eats Crow After Tweeting Fake List Of ‘Banned’ Books
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation Of Teachers (AFT), said she tweeted out a fake list of “banned books” in Florida on Sunday, according to a now deleted tweet.
Weingarten tweeted out a fake list of “Florida’s Anti-Woke banned book list” on Sunday with the caption, “books we have taught for generations!!!!,” according to a screenshot of the now deleted tweet. Weingarten tweeted out an apology after realizing the list is made up, saying she “should have double checked before I retweeted this list. My bad.”
“Looks like some of the books weren’t banned,” Weingarten’s tweet continued. “Book bans are very real and dangerous.”
https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1561516929826918402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Books on the list tweeted by Weingarten that aren’t banned in Florida include “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “The Outsiders,” The Harry Potter series and “The Lord Of The Flies,” according to a book ban list by PEN America, a group focused on the “intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression.”
The list was originally tweeted by Twitter account “Freesus Patriot” and has since been deleted, according to the Freesus Patriot Twitter page.
Weingarten included two other book ban lists in her Twitter apology, including one by PEN America and Red, Wine and Blue Education Fund, a group of suburban moms working against book banning in K-12 schools.
Weingarten and AFT did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Weingarden is typical; anything that fits a Dem’s political donkey mind-set, they latch onto as truth. As a so-called educator she should know better. Shame on her. These Demwits need to know that our kids post-Covid, more than ever before in our history, need to get back to basics: reading, writing, arithmetic, history and geography. Cut the bull, Randi. Get back to work with your pedagogy and teach.
PS I would like to add that this woke bologna has also infested our local libraries where we suddenly cannot get Mark Twain or Jack Kerouac as but two examples, yet there are loads of books currently on display about lesbians, alternate lifestyles, how to teach your child not to be a racist, transgenderism and other woke agendas. I defend the library’s right to have these books, absolutely, but resent having this pandering thrust down our throats at the expense of Classic Literature.