In Ron DeSantis' Florida the story of Rosa Parks is too woke.

As a part of Republican presidential contender Ron DeSantis’ war on wokeness, the Florida governor has established committees to scour the state’s text books for sinister mention of race or gender.

It’s the real life version of the Ray Bradbury distopian novel Fahrenheit 451 where firemen were dispatched, not to fight fires, but to burn books.

‘Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.' Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Last year Florida rejected 42 of 132 math textbooks proposed for use in public school classrooms because they “incorporate prohibited topics” including social-emotional learning and racism, according to the state’s Department of Education.

One of the textbooks that was rejected, Big Ideas Learning, included lessons to build self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, social awareness and relationship skills.

But these are forbidden ideas in the eyes of DeSantis and his brave new woke-free world.

“Math is about getting the right answer,” said DeSantis “And we want kids to learn to think so they get the right answer. It’s not about how you feel about the problem.”

Now DeSantis is going after social studies text books.

Along with Texas and California, Florida is a huge customer of text books. What books Florida decides to buy impacts what gets into all state text books.

The New York Times reports:

Part of the review process, a small army of state experts, teachers, parents and political activists have combed thousands of pages of text — not only evaluating academic content, but also flagging anything that could hint, for instance, at critical race theory.

The Florida Citizens Alliance, a conservative group, has urged the state to reject 28 of the 38 textbooks that its volunteers reviewed, including more than a dozen by McGraw Hill, a major national publisher.

The alliance, whose co-founders served on Mr. DeSantis’s education advisory team during his transition to governor, has helped lead a sweeping effort to remove school library books deemed as inappropriate, including many with L.G.B.T.Q. characters. It trained dozens of volunteers to review social studies textbooks.

In a summary of its findings submitted to the state last month, the group complained that a McGraw Hill fifth-grade textbook, for example, mentioned slavery 189 times within a few chapters alone. Another objection: An eighth-grade book gave outsize attention to the “negative side” of the treatment of Native Americans, while failing to give a fuller account of their own acts of violence, such as the Jamestown Massacre of 1622, in which Powhatan warriors killed more than 300 English colonists.

For many publishers what get included and excluded is a just a business decision.

If the DeSantis 451 Book Committee thinks the story of the heroic Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Movement is too woke, they will willingly change the story int order to sell their product.

One publisher scrubbed all mention of Rosa Park’s race.

“She was told to move to a different seat,” the lesson said, without any explanation of segregation laws in place at the time.