As Florida’s legislature moved to sure up parental rights from radical leftist teachers on Tuesday, ABC’s The View again peddled the factious narrative of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. They went to such extreme measures to attack this defense for parental rights, co-host Sara Haines suggested the bill would allow parents to torture their children at home and make teachers “betray” students who speak out about it.
Whoopi Goldberg was soon to falsely claim that students exposed by disturbed teachers were exposing their sexual behavior. “not happening” and “has never been happening in the school system,” Haines argued that “considering its kindergarten through third, the bill isn’t accomplishing anything” because they didn’t talk about sex at that age when she was in school.
Haines’ age is 44.
“It’s not solving anything. But it is doing is creating a veil of shame,” she continued to assert as she went on an unhinged rant suggesting parents would now be able to torture their kids and teachers can’t stop it:
Teachers can be the first to respond for children. They’re the first responders for anything going on, whether it’s abuse at home or otherwise. They have seen children — I do not know if they saw the Gabriel Fernandez case. This kid was subject to brutal torture. One of the ignorant slurs being thrown to him by his – I don’t know if it was a stepfather or his mother’s boyfriend was, “you’re gay.”
Some people are so ignorant and violently unhinged that it can pose a danger to others. These children can’t be taken away from their teachers.
She seemed to suggest that part of her argument suggested she thought teachers were in some way parents of their students, as she was afraid the law might make it clear. “obligated to then out their own children.”
Students are not a teacher’s “own kids.”
And despite having said the “bill isn’t accomplishing anything” because there’s no sexual talk in those grades, Haines went on to claim it would have harmed her brother who “feel different at about five or six” years old. “So, if he asked a question, not knowing what it was to be ‘gay’ but to feel different, he could have been in a situation where he turned to a teacher that had to betray him,”Sie said.
It is false as well. Students can bring up this topic with their teachers and have confidential discussions. This bans teachers from imposing their sexuality on children.
Those facts didn’t stop Goldberg from concocting the story of how kids of same-sex couples can no longer talk about their weekends. Sunny Hostin also didn’t find these facts objectionable. “cruelty is the point” and that it’s designed “to shame families” and “to shame children.”
And without saying his name, Hostin blamed former President Trump and argued this was the natural progression after banning Critical Race Theory (Click “expand”):
HOSTIN : I can see it coming. When you begin banning books, and when history is banned in schools, this could also be seen. Next? This bans all discussion about gender identity and sexual orientation. Then, it bans discussions on certain religions. We have been on this path, I’m sorry, since your boss took – [points to Stephanie Grisham]
GOLDBERG – Former boss.
HOSTIN: He was a former boss who took over as his successor. He said the loud part aloud. He began to speak the quiet part loudly and transparently.
“And, you know, life’s too short for us to do this to the kids. I’m sorry. It would take too much time to make it happen to everyone. But it’s too short to do it to the kids,”Goldberg laughed as they moved to the commercial break.
The View’s lies about parental rights in Florida were made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Charmin and Ensure. They are linked.
Below is the transcript. Click “expand to read:
ABC’s The View
March 8, 2022
Eastern at 11:15:25WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Now, the Florida Senate is expected to vote today on the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill that would prohibit public schools from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity to children in kindergarten through third grade. This isn’t happening, I have to say. In the school system, it has never happened. We have another problem for our kids. So, this has led to protests, student walk-outs, and a tearful plea from Florida’s first openly gay state senator Shevrin Jones.
(…)
GOLDBERG – So is the bill punishing teachers and kids who want to be who they really are? This is a strange bill.
SARAHAINES: The bill doesn’t achieve anything considering it covers kindergarten through the third grade.
SUNNY HOTIN: However, if you examine the language, it doesn’t make any sense. So I looked at its language. It says that – it says “kindergarten through third grade or” – and this is the important part – “in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.” So really, that extends it. It’s very vague. It can be extended to any grade.
HAINES: Yes. However, we should not be focusing on the third grade through fourth grades as this is when many people had never experienced sex talk, sexuality or sex Ed. This is not a solution. It is however creating shame in people who have fought long and hard to become their true selves. You’re now taking schools out.
Teachers can be the first to respond for children. They’re the first responders for anything going on, whether it’s abuse at home or otherwise. They have seen children — I do not know if they saw the Gabriel Fernandez case. The kid was tortured to death. One of the ignorant slurs being thrown to him by his – I don’t know if it was a stepfather or his mother’s boyfriend was, “you’re gay.”
People are sometimes so insanely ignorant or unhinged, it could be dangerous for others. You can’t remove teachers from such children. We are still on a journey. Some people remain isolated from their families. People still try to deny the existence of gay people. There’s a lot of that still going on.
We must not allow people to stop learning. This is especially true for young children. Because when you come out, a lot of — My brother’s gay and I remember him sharing this story. At about age five, he felt different. So, if he asked a question, not knowing what it was to be “gay” but to feel different, he could have been in a situation where he turned to a teacher that had to betray him.
This is a bad direction, I think.
GOLDBERG (in response to W.): What about children who are raised by the same parents as their parents?
HAINES: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: You can’t discuss your weekend with the same-sex parents if you are the children of the couple. It’s not clear to me. It is not my understanding that children’s lives should be made more difficult than necessary.
HOSTIN (I think the cruelty is what’s important). You hear it all the time. This is to shame families. Children are to be shamed. This could be a sign that you are going to ban books and start banning history from the classroom. The next step is? This bans all discussion about gender identity and sexual orientation. Then, it bans discussions on certain religions. We have been on this path, I’m sorry, since your boss took – [points to Stephanie Grisham]
GOLDBERG – Former boss.
HOSTIN: He was a former boss who took over as his successor. He said the loud part aloud. He began to speak the quiet part loudly and transparently.
STEPHANIE GRISHAM : This one is very personal for me. You bring up an excellent point. Due to my ex boss, I now have a 14 year old son who is gay and has recently come out as gay. By the way, I’ve got his permission to speak about it. And he refused to share with his friends the details of my work. He had a right to be ashamed about where I worked.
But also the fact that now there’s this “don’t say gay” even slogan out there, it’s making children feel different. There’s also a problem: it creates problems that I don’t believe exist.
HAINES – To make it clear, this saying was uttered by critics. If it’s perpetuating a problem, we’ve got to be honest about where it comes from. This is people fighting back against the bill.
GRISHAM : However, it is still possible. Please don’t be gay.
HOSTIN: Yes, that is.
GRISHAM : That’s what I don’t like.
GOLDBERG This is the end result. And, you know, life’s too short for us to do this to the kids. I’m sorry. It would take too much time to make it happen to everyone. However, it is too little to make it happen to your children.
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