{"id":2015724,"date":"2023-08-29T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-use-racist-shooting-to-smear-ron-desantis-and-chill-debate-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:08:52","slug":"media-use-racist-shooting-to-smear-ron-desantis-and-chill-debate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-use-racist-shooting-to-smear-ron-desantis-and-chill-debate-2\/","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-2%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=2015724&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 \u2064three\u2062 black customers at a Jacksonville Dollar General \u2063store this week,\u200c NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/florida-black-communitys-anger-ron-215607614.html\">informs<\/a> \u2064 us that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 \u201cpolicies toward the Black community\u201d are coming \u201cunder fresh 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__b89e9-1160004571\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-895b8347efc91b7e651b22066a0a9509 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-895b8347efc91b7e651b22066a0a9509\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Florida\u2019s Black community and beyond have been vocally opposed to the DeSantis \u200cadministration\u2019s focus\u2063 on wiping out\u200d higher education diversity programs, the teaching \u200bof 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\u2062 courses and drawing a redistricting map that erased northern Florida\u2019s only Black-performing congressional seat, which included\u200b the city of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What,\u2064 you may wonder, does that string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-use-racist-shooting-to-smear-ron-desantis-and-chill-debate-2\/\" title=\"Media exploits racist shooting to tarnish Ron DeSantis and stifle discussion.\">completely unrelated left-wing grievances<\/a> have to do with a \u200cshooting? Is the claim here that teaching kids 1619-style pseudohistory or\u200c funding \u201chigher education diversity programs\u201d would have changed the mind\u2063 of a suicidal murderer? I mean, presumably, \u2062the shooter was in school when the\u2064 old Florida AP history course\u2063 was \u2062still\u200d being taught, when DEI ideologues still had \u2064their state-funded \u200djobs, and when Florida\u2019s only \u201cBlack-performing congressional seat\u201d was\u2063 still \u200da thing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, \u200deven if the 21-year-old\u200c went on a shooting spree because he believed Florida\u2019s\u2064 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> was just a \u200dclandestine call from \u200bDeSantis to engage in racial violence, it says nothing about the text itself. You can read 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\u2063 the\u2063 13-member committee of scholars\u200b 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 National Review has\u2063 <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 great evil of American history is given plenty of \u200cattention.<\/p>\n<p>This entire \u201ccontroversy\u201d was ginned up over a single\u2062 sentence that contends some slaves \u201cdeveloped skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their\u2063 personal benefit.\u201d\u200b AP\u2019s African American studies curriculum released by the\u2062 College Board 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> slaves learned \u201cspecialized trades\u201d\u2063 during slavery and later used \u201cthese skills\u200b to provide for themselves and others\u201d once free. Because it is a statement of\u200d fact. And statements of fact aren\u2019t racist merely \u200bbecause they grate against your trendy ideology.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9cd2f64199b2ea64beba31f096b80865 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9cd2f64199b2ea64beba31f096b80865\"><\/div>\n<p>Then again,\u2064 all of this is ginned up.<\/p>\n<p>Take the Associated Press \u2014 once the model of 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 \u200dwhen\u200d the NAACP issued a \u200dtravel advisory this spring warning\u200d Black\u2063 people to use \u2018extreme care\u2019 if traveling to Florida,\u201d \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sppeoples\/status\/1696495671535079718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writes<\/a> Steve Peoples. \u201cJust three months later, DeSantis is leading\u200b his state through the aftermath of \u2063a\u2062 racist attack that left \u200dthree African Americans\u2062 dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, scoffing \u200cat the partisans of\u2062 the NAACP, which\u2064 engaged in this political stunt for just such a moment, is the right thing to do. It is preposterous to argue that Florida is \u2063an outlier of any sort when it comes to violence or racism. Then again, the NAACP\u2019s headquarters are in Baltimore, 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\u200d African Americans. \u2064Maybe 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, the conceit \u200cof the AP piece, as with so many others like it, is that\u2064 Republicans contribute to violence by virtue of having political opinions. This is not, incidentally, a standard employed when\u2064 a \u200btrans 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> five white\u2062 cops,\u200b or even when a racist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/buffalo-supermarket-gunman-to-be-sentenced-to-life-for-racist-attack-killing-10\">kills<\/a> 10 in the blue \u2063state of New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-04c868b9fd0f548e68e8a6e346b7ea7c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-04c868b9fd0f548e68e8a6e346b7ea7c\"><\/div>\n<p>Peoples claims, for example, that Republicans have\u200d worked to appeal to the \u201cGOP\u2019s white conservative base\u201d (you are just\u2063 automatons defined by skin color these days) by \u201cdownplaying the existence of racism in\u2063 America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This claim, really a lie, is based \u2063on a nonexistent requirement that every\u2063 American treat the far left\u2019s\u2062 assertions about racism as objective truth. It\u2019s \u2063tantamount to accusing anyone \u200bwho disagrees with QAnon of \u201cdownplaying the existence of pedophilia in\u200d America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, people disagree \u2062about the scope of a problem. Yet, according to the AP, if one diverges from\u200b the worldview of Black Lives Matter, they are in league with white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>Even criticism of \u201cwokeness\u201d \u2014 which, I think most conservatives view as a catchall for progressive cultural values \u2014 is, according\u2062 to NBC,\u2062 an attempt to undermine \u201cpeople of color\u201d and \u200bother \u201cmarginalized communities.\u201d\u200d If you disparage wokeness, you are basically \u200dbuying Klansmen AR-15s, which is very\u200b convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s become so common for the left to insinuate\u2064 (or blame) conservatives for inciting violence, we might\u200c forget how vile those\u200d accusations can be. But\u2062 they\u2019re not \u200conly contemptible for the obvious reasons. They are meant to shut you up. No one should let these nuts\u2062 hinder \u200dtheir ability to engage in political disagreements, and no one should let cynical \u200dactivists masquerading as journalists use those \u200dnuts to\u2062 chill speech,\u200c either.<\/p>\n<p>Which\u2063 is, of \u200bcourse, the point of all this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b35eec0166567e9a55409f83dce039c3 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b35eec0166567e9a55409f83dce039c3\"><\/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":2015725,"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-2015724","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\/2015724","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=2015724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}