{"id":1958222,"date":"2023-06-27T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-2024-candidate-explains-viral-whats-a-uyghur-moment-didnt-recognize-pronunciation\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:15:49","slug":"gop-2024-candidate-explains-viral-whats-a-uyghur-moment-didnt-recognize-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-2024-candidate-explains-viral-whats-a-uyghur-moment-didnt-recognize-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP 2024 candidate clarifies &#8216;What&#8217;s a Uyghur?&#8217; incident: Unfamiliar with pronunciation."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fgop-2024-candidate-explains-viral-whats-a-uyghur-moment-didnt-recognize-pronunciation%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=1958222&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--><h2>Miami Mayor&#8217;s Faux Pas Sparks Social Media Buzz<\/h2>\n<p>After Miami Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez&#8217;s radio appearance went viral on Monday morning when he asked &#8220;What&#8217;s a Uyghur?&#8221; he took to Twitter to clarify the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-if-you-oppose-my-anti-police-comments-youre-racist\/\" title=\"Obama: If You Oppose My Anti-Police Comments, You\u2019re Racist\">faux pas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, I am well aware of the suffering of the Uyghurs in China. They are being enslaved because of their faith. China has a deplorable record on human rights and all people of faith suffer there,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t recognize the pronunciation my friend Hugh Hewitt used. That\u2019s on me,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Suarez, running for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, was asked about the concern by radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday. &#8220;Penultimate question, mayor. Will you be talking about the Uyghurs in your campaign?&#8221; Hewitt asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The what?&#8221; the mayor responded before asking, &#8220;What&#8217;s a Uyghur?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-2024-candidate-explains-viral-whats-a-uyghur-moment-didnt-recognize-pronunciation\/\" title=\"GOP 2024 candidate clarifies 'What's a Uyghur?' incident: Unfamiliar with pronunciation.\">clip immediately began circulating<\/a> on social media, drawing comparisons to 2016 Libertarian candidate for president Gary Johnson&#8217;s viral moment in which he asked an interviewer, &#8220;What is Aleppo?&#8221; To the interviewer&#8217;s shock, Johnson was unaware of the Syrian city at the center of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-working-with-un-to-determine-if-ukrainians-who-fled-will-be-admitted-to-u-s\/\" title=\"State Dept Working With UN to Determine if Ukrainians Who Fled Will Be Admitted to U.S.\">refugee crisis due<\/a> to a civil war in the country.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the Hewitt interview, Suarez told the host, &#8220;You gave me homework, Hugh. I\u2019ll look at what a, what was it, what did you call it, a weeble?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Uyghurs. You really need to know about the Uyghurs, mayor. You\u2019ve got to talk about it every day, OK?&#8221; Hewitt said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will talk about \u2014 I will search &#8216;Uyghurs.&#8217; I\u2019m a good learner. I\u2019m a fast learner,&#8221; the mayor replied.<\/p>\n<h3>Understanding the Uyghur Crisis<\/h3>\n<p>The Uyghurs are a predominantly Muslim and Turkic-speaking people that mainly live in the Xinjiang Province of China. Anywhere from 800,000 to 2 million Uyghurs have been detained in the region since 2017, according to estimates by U.S. officials and researchers cited by the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. enacted the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021, which requires &#8220;the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to develop a strategy for supporting enforcement of the prohibition on the importation of goods into the United States manufactured wholly or in part with forced labor in the People&#8217;s Republic of China, especially from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Xinjiang.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Global Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Countries across the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and others, have characterized China&#8217;s treatment of its Uyghur population as genocide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Mayor and GOP candidate Francis Suarez&#8217;s radio gaffe, questioning &#8220;What&#8217;s a Uyghur?&#8221;, gained online attention. He later used Twitter to address the mistake. Numerous nations, like the US, Canada, and UK, have labeled China&#8217;s actions towards the Uyghur people as genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1958223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1958222","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=1958222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}