{"id":1830432,"date":"2023-01-31T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830432"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:06:23","slug":"the-political-targeting-of-george-santos-is-inextricable-from-his-sexual-orientation-and-latinx-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-political-targeting-of-george-santos-is-inextricable-from-his-sexual-orientation-and-latinx-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Targeting of George Santos Is Inextricable From His Sexual Orientation and Latinx Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fthe-political-targeting-of-george-santos-is-inextricable-from-his-sexual-orientation-and-latinx-heritage%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=1830432&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-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Racially charged &#8216;fact-checking\u2019 is morally (and literally!) equivalent to violence. Let the poor man be!     <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It is enough. Out of control is the media&#8217;s obsession with Rep. George Santos, R., N.Y.&#8217;s coverage and its racially charged scrutiny. It must stop before anyone gets hurt.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>George Santos was the 34-year old son of Latinx immigrants, Brazil. He became history last year as the first openly homosexual Republican elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The mainstream media weren&#8217;t impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than applaud him for overcoming systemic racism and homophobia to achieve the American Dream, snarky journalists and late-night hosts taunted Santos and relentlessly probed his personal story for errors and inconsistencies\u2014an unprecedented level of scrutiny that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/30\/ilhan-omar-mccarthy-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inextricably connected<\/a> His diverse sexual orientations and racial identities, as well as his lack of fancy college degrees, are some of the reasons he is so unique.<\/p>\n<p>They have no shame. (Answer: No.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something we can all agree on. &#8220;funny&#8221; Dave Chappelle uses Dave Chappelle&#8217;s guise &#8220;comedy&#8221; To openly encourage violence against transgender people. Guess what? You can&#8217;t deny the media&#8217;s incessant. &#8220;jokes&#8221; Santos can be just as dangerous. They are not only dangerous for his safety, but also for the well-being of every American LGBTQ+ person and person of color.<\/p>\n<p>They may be mocking Congressman for being a sexist. &#8220;liar&#8221; And a &#8220;criminal,&#8221; Or refusing to condemn the chants &#8220;Lock him up!&#8221; Our media gatekeepers create a permission system for law enforcement agencies so they can continue their racist crusade to black, brown, and gay outside Santos\u2019s Queens office. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fact-check-whitmer-santos-drag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drag-queen<\/a> bodies. That&#8217;s unacceptable. Americans with good conscience need to be shaking their heads right away.<\/p>\n<p>Why are these actors in bad faith insisting on questioning Santos&#8217;s lived experiences as a LGBTQ+ American, and child of Latinx immigrants? (Answer: Racism.)<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/enemies-of-freedom\/enemy-of-freedom-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>, a white man, embellishes his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and lies about being <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/biden-admits-he-was-never-arrested-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arrest<\/a> South Africa&#8217;s self-appointed defenders of democracy ignore it as they do in South Africa in 1977. &#8220;Joe being Joe.&#8221; Jill Biden (first lady), a white woman insists on calling her a doctor. &#8220;Yass, Queen!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christine Blasey Ford (another white woman) testified that Justice Brett Kavanaugh sex assaulted her in 1982. They believed her story, and applauded her. &#8220;courage.&#8221; Another white woman is also available <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/enemies-of-freedom\/enemy-of-freedom-elizabeth-warren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a>lied about her Native American heritage for her entire career. They insist it could have been a part of her professional life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough is enough. The media&#8217;s obsessive coverage and racially charged scrutiny of Rep. George Santos (R., N.Y.) is out of control. It needs to stop before someone gets hurt.<br \/>\nThe post The Political Targeting of George Santos Is Inextricable From His Sexual Orientation and Latinx Heritage appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1830435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[14303,5811,13357,17130,16870,3753,12040,4859,6896],"class_list":["post-1830432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-latinx","tag-george","tag-heritage","tag-inextricable","tag-orientation","tag-political","tag-santos","tag-sexual","tag-targeting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830432","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}