What in the name of Isaac Newton is going on with Florida math textbooks?

 Today is a day ending in "-y," which means that something polarizing and inflammatory is happening in Florida, and while it has to do with schools, at least today's news has nothing to do with a teacher diddling a kid.  To my knowledge.  Rather, Florida passed a prohibition on "critical race theory" instruction in public schools, and over the weekend, the state announced that 41% of textbooks failed to meet their guidelines, including 54 math textbooks.  According to the state, the books referenced CRT in some form.  Meaning... what?  I do not know.  I would very much like to see, and this overlaps with much of my recent reading.  You may be wondering one of two things.  First, could math textbooks actually have any critical race theory component?  Second, why would math textbooks reference race at all?

In answer to the first question, yes.  Yes, they might.  Recall some of the documents circulating around about "anti-racist" math education, such as the Stride document.  Yes, critical race theory really has influenced math curriculum design.  The question is, why would they write any of this, explicitly, into the textbooks?  And... I have no clue.  Math textbooks have no need to reference race at all.  Math is race-less.  Might history and other textbooks run into problems with overzealous and perhaps disingenuous enforcement of Florida's new law?  I can see how.  We have seen absurd lawsuits, attempting to ban books of all sorts under such laws, so why not?  But math?  I'm... puzzled.

I cannot rule out the possibility that the authors of the textbooks did not merely write "anti-racist"-style curriculum in line with "Dismantling Racism In Mathematics Instruction," but used race as examples, or something, but in the absence of the text, how do we interpret this?

Do we trust in the good faith of those evaluating the curriculum?

Put another way, in whom do we place more trust-- those who wrote the books, or Florida?

At this point, I trust neither.  Florida is doing this for the sake of fighting a culture war.  Don't trust them.  Yet once you see documents like "Dismantling Racism In Mathematics Instruction," you cannot rule out the possibility that the textbooks really have problems.

Hence I have a new motto.  Don't trust, just verify.  Nobody deserves trust on this issue anymore.  Florida does not.  They're just fighting a culture war for the sake of a culture war.  DeSantis is an asshole.  Yet the Ed. Schools have gone nuts.

History texts need to be updated because history is a thing that keeps happening.  Math textbooks?  They do not need updating.  Math does not change.  It just keeps working.  It's even better than the Energizer bunny.  Is that still a thing?