{"id":1224394,"date":"2022-01-19T12:25:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224394"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:36:57","slug":"no-a-proposed-florida-law-doesnt-make-it-illegal-to-make-white-people-feel-discomfort-its-a-hit-piece-against-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-a-proposed-florida-law-doesnt-make-it-illegal-to-make-white-people-feel-discomfort-its-a-hit-piece-against-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"No, A Proposed Florida Law Doesn\u2019t Make It Illegal To Make White People Feel \u2018Discomfort.\u2019 It\u2019s A Hit Piece Against DeSantis."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-a-proposed-florida-law-doesnt-make-it-illegal-to-make-white-people-feel-discomfort-its-a-hit-piece-against-desantis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Associated Press on Tuesday provided a wildly inaccurate description of a basic civil rights bill being pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-florida-lawsuits-ron-desantis-racial-injustice-3ec10492b7421543315acf4491813c1b?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">falsely insisting<\/a> that it would \u201cprohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel \u2018discomfort\u2019 when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation\u2019s past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022\/148\/BillText\/Filed\/PDF\">bill<\/a> mentions race but does not single out white people, and the relevant portion of the bill insists that subjecting people as a condition of their \u201cemployment, membership, certification, licensing, credentialing, or passing an examination, to training, instruction, or any other required activity\u201d that members of any race, sex, or national origin are inherently racist, sexist of oppressive is wrong. The language is a shade more specific than typical civil rights protections.<\/p>\n<p>The bill does mention the word \u201cdiscomfort\u201d twice, but it is not specific to white people. One section says that \u201cAn individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin.\u201d The second mention is the same but is a subsection relating to the legislature\u2019s acknowledgement that \u201call individuals are equal before the law and have inalienable rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 spokeswoman Christina Pushaw pushed back against the AP report, noting that the word \u201cwhite\u201d nor any other specific race, is mentioned in the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill was introduced by a Hispanic lawmaker to prevent any kind of race essentialist indoctrination,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The word \u201cwhite\u201d (or any other race) is not even in the bill. The bill was introduced by a Hispanic lawmaker to prevent any kind of race essentialist indoctrination. But you wouldn\u2019t know that if you rely on American Pravda and its \u201ckind\u201d Tallahassee reporter for news. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9FR4CLKS0D\">https:\/\/t.co\/9FR4CLKS0D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1483792441148940292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The word \u201cwhite\u201d (or any other race) is not even in the bill. The bill was introduced by a Hispanic lawmaker to prevent any kind of race essentialist indoctrination. But you wouldn\u2019t know that if you rely on American Pravda and its \u201ckind\u201d Tallahassee reporter for news. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9FR4CLKS0D\">https:\/\/t.co\/9FR4CLKS0D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1483792441148940292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pushaw also asked the AP what part of the bill was racist, including an image of a quote from the bill included in the AP article, which read \u201cAn individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, does not bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex. An individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pushaw also noted that the AP reporter who wrote the article originally included a line claiming \u201cThe governor\u2019s office didn\u2019t respond to an emailed request for comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Guess who\u2019s back?<\/p>\n<p>American Pravda\u2019s most infamous Florida activist writes a story implying that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> is a white supremacist, then LIES that our office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Our comms director did respond. Brendan just didn\u2019t like her response. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zaHyTKM7wK\">pic.twitter.com\/zaHyTKM7wK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1483570719527215106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Guess who&#39;s back?<\/p>\n<p>American Pravda&#39;s most infamous Florida activist writes a story implying that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> is a white supremacist, then LIES that our office did not respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Our comms director did respond. Brendan just didn&#39;t like her response. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zaHyTKM7wK\">pic.twitter.com\/zaHyTKM7wK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1483570719527215106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In another tweet, Pushaw provided an exchange from the AP reporter asking DeSantis\u2019 office to respond to the reporter\u2019s question to Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones about whether DeSantis is racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked Sen. Jones if he thought Gov. DeSantis is racist. He said his policies are. Do you have a comment?\u201d the AP reporter asked DeSantis\u2019 office.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 Communications Director Taryn Fenske responded to the absurd question from the AP by saying: \u201cI just want to clarify \u2013 that you, without any context, asked a sitting State Senator if the Governor of Florida is a racist, while on the clock, being paid by the Associated Press?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The absolute state of the Tallahassee Press Corps. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ap<\/a> American Pravda \u2620\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1D7XpdKHja\">pic.twitter.com\/1D7XpdKHja<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1483629799335776259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The absolute state of the Tallahassee Press Corps. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ap<\/a> American Pravda \u2620\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1D7XpdKHja\">pic.twitter.com\/1D7XpdKHja<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1483629799335776259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This information was not included in the AP article. An updated version of the article includes the following revised claim about the governor\u2019s response:<\/p>\n<p><em>Asked for comment, the governor\u2019s spokeswoman reiterated comments DeSantis made at a news conference last month in which he referred to the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DeSantis said at the time, \u201cYou think about what MLK stood for, \u2018He said he didn\u2019t want people judged on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. You listen to some of these people nowadays, they don\u2019t talk about that.\u2019 \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press on Tuesday provided a wildly inaccurate description of a basic civil rights bill being pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), falsely insisting that it would \u201cprohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel \u2018discomfort\u2019 when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation\u2019s past.\u201d The bill &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}