{"id":2015690,"date":"2023-08-29T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-use-racist-shooting-to-smear-ron-desantis-and-chill-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:49:53","slug":"media-use-racist-shooting-to-smear-ron-desantis-and-chill-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-use-racist-shooting-to-smear-ron-desantis-and-chill-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Media exploits racist shooting to tarnish Ron DeSantis and stifle discussion."},"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%2Fmedia-use-racist-shooting-to-smear-ron-desantis-and-chill-debate%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=2015690&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>A day after a racist psychopath murdered three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-new-civil-rights-movement\/\" title=\"America\u2019s New Civil Rights Movement\">black customers<\/a> at a Jacksonville Dollar General store this week, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/florida-black-communitys-anger-ron-215607614.html\">informs<\/a> us that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 \u201cpolicies\u2062 toward the Black community\u201d are\u2063 coming \u201cunder fresh\u2063 scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Dixon \u201creports:\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1513931520\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0c91ab96a76344460a439dca24e918ba fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0c91ab96a76344460a439dca24e918ba\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Florida\u2019s Black community \u200dand beyond have been vocally opposed to the DeSantis administration\u2019s focus on wiping out higher education diversity \u200dprograms, the teaching of institutional racism to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-gov-newsom-announces-2b-plan-to-reopen-schools-by-spring\/\" title=\"Calif. Gov. Newsom announces B plan to reopen schools by spring\">public school students<\/a>, scrutinizing African American history\u200b courses and drawing a \u2063redistricting map that erased northern Florida\u2019s only Black-performing congressional seat, which included the city of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What, you may wonder, does that\u2064 string of completely unrelated left-wing grievances have to \u2064do with a shooting? Is the\u200d claim here that teaching kids 1619-style pseudohistory or funding \u201chigher education diversity programs\u201d would have changed the mind of a suicidal murderer?\u200b I mean, presumably, the \u2062shooter was in school when the old Florida AP history course was still being taught,\u200c when DEI ideologues still had their state-funded jobs, and when Florida\u2019s only \u201cBlack-performing congressional seat\u201d was still a\u2062 thing.<\/p>\n<p>Of\u2063 course, even if the 21-year-old went on a shooting spree because he believed Florida\u2019s new \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-iq-declining-for-first-time-in-almost-a-century-study-finds\/\" title=\"Americans' IQ Declining for First Time in Almost a Century, Study Finds\">honors curriculum<\/a>\u2062 was just a clandestine call from DeSantis to engage\u2063 in racial violence, it says \u2062nothing about the text \u2062itself. You can \u200cread the state\u2019s history standards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/core\/fileparse.php\/20653\/urlt\/6-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">right here<\/a>. There is nothing racist about them.<\/p>\n<p>Of the\u2063 13-member committee of scholars who put together Florida\u2019s course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/heres-who-is-behind-floridas-new-black-history-education-standards\/C64JRK35J5AYRATMRVDCZ4LOZI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">five<\/a> were African American. There are, as Charlie Cooke at\u200d National Review has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/kamala-harris-is-brazenly-lying-about-floridas-slavery-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed out<\/a>, 191 mentions of American slavery and racism. The\u200d great evil of \u200dAmerican \u200dhistory is given plenty of attention.<\/p>\n<p>This entire \u201ccontroversy\u201d was ginned\u2064 up over a single sentence that contends some \u2064slaves \u201cdeveloped skills which, in some instances,\u2064 could be applied for their personal benefit.\u201d\u2064 AP\u2019s African American studies curriculum released by the College Board\u2062 also <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/education\/4124232-kamala-the-insincere-the-truth-about-floridas-education-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> \u200d slaves \u2062learned \u201cspecialized trades\u201d during slavery and later used \u201cthese skills to provide for themselves and others\u201d once free. Because it is \u200ca statement of fact. And statements of \u200bfact aren\u2019t\u200d racist merely\u200b because they grate against your trendy ideology.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-83049dcc527287572ccbdb5b1da0a1d8 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-83049dcc527287572ccbdb5b1da0a1d8\"><\/div>\n<p>Then \u200cagain, all of this \u200bis ginned up.<\/p>\n<p>Take the Associated Press \u2014 once the model\u2063 of\u200c straightforward journalism, now a left-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/associated-press-coverage-of-courts-climate-bankrolled-by-dozens-of-left-wing-foundations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advocacy<\/a> group. \u201cRon DeSantis scoffed\u2062 when the NAACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning Black people to use \u200d\u2018extreme care\u2019 if traveling to Florida,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sppeoples\/status\/1696495671535079718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writes<\/a> Steve Peoples. \u201cJust three \u2064months\u200d later, DeSantis is leading his state through\u200b the aftermath of a racist attack \u2064that left \u200cthree African Americans dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, scoffing at the partisans of the NAACP, which engaged in this political stunt for just such \u2063a moment, is the right thing to do. It is preposterous to argue that Florida is an outlier of \u2062any sort when\u2064 it comes to violence or\u200c racism. Then again, the NAACP\u2019s headquarters are in\u2063 Baltimore,\u2064 one of the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/local\/baltimore-ranks-among-top-2-cities-with-homicide-rate-problems-according-to-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most dangerous<\/a> cities for African Americans. Maybe Florida should be the one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-issues-do-not-travel-guidance-to-80-of-countries-cites-covid-19\/\" title=\"US Issues \u2018Do Not Travel\u2019 Guidance To 80% Of Countries, Cites COVID-19\">issuing travel advisories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still,\u2063 the conceit of the AP piece, as with\u2062 so many others like it,\u2062 is that Republicans\u2062 contribute to violence by virtue of having political opinions. This is not, \u2064incidentally, a standard employed when a trans person <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/28\/doj-wont-say-if-it-will-investigate-trans-shooters-attack-on-christian-school-as-hate-crime-but-we-can-guess-the-answer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">massacres<\/a> kids in a Christian school, a racist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/09\/us\/dallas-police-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murders<\/a> \u2063five \u200bwhite cops, or leftists throw bricks and Molotov cocktails at\u2063 people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9c4b3b46c2b9bb5349c6bc4d1d4386e7 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9c4b3b46c2b9bb5349c6bc4d1d4386e7\"><\/div>\n<p>Peoples \u2063claims, for\u200d example, that Republicans have worked to \u2064appeal to the \u201cGOP\u2019s white conservative base\u201d (you are \u200djust automatons \u200cdefined by skin color these days) by \u201cdownplaying the existence \u200bof racism in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This claim,\u200b really a lie, is based on\u2062 a nonexistent requirement that every American treat the far left\u2019s assertions about racism\u2063 as objective truth. It\u2019s tantamount to accusing anyone who disagrees with QAnon of \u201cdownplaying\u2064 the existence of \u2063pedophilia in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, people disagree\u200d about the scope of a problem. Yet, according to\u200b the \u2062AP,\u2064 if one diverges from the worldview of Black Lives\u200c Matter, they are\u200b in league with white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>Even criticism of \u201cwokeness\u201d \u2014 which, I \u2062think most conservatives view as a catchall for progressive cultural values\u2064 \u2014 is, according to NBC, an\u200c attempt to undermine \u201cpeople of color\u201d and\u2063 other \u201cmarginalized communities.\u201d If you disparage wokeness, \u200dyou are basically buying Klansmen AR-15s, which is very convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s become so common for the\u2063 left to insinuate (or blame) conservatives for inciting violence, we might forget how vile those accusations\u2063 can be. But they\u2019re not only contemptible for the obvious reasons. They are meant to shut \u2064you up. No one should let these nuts\u200d hinder their ability to \u200bengage in political disagreements, and no\u200d one should let cynical activists masquerading as journalists use those nuts to chill speech, \u2063either.<\/p>\n<p>Which is, of course, the point \u2064of all this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-47be36f87f0de54559cd5e4a1c56b109 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-47be36f87f0de54559cd5e4a1c56b109\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>racial issues, claiming it perpetuates discrimination. The recent tragic incident has intensified the criticism, prompting a closer examination of Governor DeSantis&#8217; approach towards the Black community. NBC News highlights the growing scrutiny surrounding his policies, as voices from Florida&#8217;s Black community and beyond express their opposition to his administration&#8217;s priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2015691,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/2015690","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}