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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeSantis Spoke at Racially-Charged Conferences
https://politicalwire.com/2018/09/10/desantis-spoke-at-racially-charged-conferences/DeSantis Spoke at Racially-Charged Conferences
September 10, 2018 at 7:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe their freedom to white people and that the countrys only serious race war is against whites, the Washington Post reports.
Said DeSantis in a 2015 video: I just want to say what an honor its been to be here to speak Ive been to these conferences in the past but Ive been a big admirer of an organization that shoots straight, tells the American people the truth and is standing up for the right thing.
Said DeSantis in a 2015 video: I just want to say what an honor its been to be here to speak Ive been to these conferences in the past but Ive been a big admirer of an organization that shoots straight, tells the American people the truth and is standing up for the right thing.
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DeSantis Spoke at Racially-Charged Conferences (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2018
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MagickMuffin
(15,888 posts)1. "Standing up for the right thing"
Ah, no you do not get to define what is the "right thing" because you do not own this country.
So, YOU WILL LOSE!!!
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)2. DeSantis is a racist
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)3. President Trump and the fantasy of a race war against white people
There is no war on white people and white people are not the victims of discrimination https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/10/donald-trump-and-the-dream-of-a-race-war-against-white-people/?utm_term=.78b2df681125
Prepare to be shocked: One of the Trumpiest candidates in the country repeatedly spoke at a conference whose organizer believes that the only serious race war in this country right now is the one targeting white people.
The Post reports that Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee in the nationally watched Florida gubernatorial race, has spoken four times at conferences organized by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The groups conferences have featured a parade of alt-right, white nationalist and Islamophobic heroes, as well as speakers who claim that refugees and immigrants are destroying European culture and that diversity is dumbing down America.
Horowitz himself has said that American blacks are richer, more privileged, freer than blacks anywhere in the world, including all black run countries. He responded to the news that a man was arrested after vowing to kill all white police at the White House by saying: Meanwhile, the countrys only serious race war against whites continues. DeSantis is running against Democrat Andrew Gillum, the African American mayor of Tallahassee....
The larger story here, as Adam Serwer recently documented, is that we are currently seeing the careful mainstreaming of white nationalism, even if overt white supremacists are getting driven from the public square. Such sentiments are gaining a foothold in the GOP, thanks to prominent right-wing media personalities who regularly sound the veiled and not so veiled refrain that the browning of America represents at bottom a severe cultural and demographic threat to white America. As Serwer notes, openly committed white nationalists and supremacists alike hear in this rhetoric an exhortation to whites to understand that they are under existential racial attack albeit one so couched that it can air on Fox News.
The Post reports that Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee in the nationally watched Florida gubernatorial race, has spoken four times at conferences organized by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The groups conferences have featured a parade of alt-right, white nationalist and Islamophobic heroes, as well as speakers who claim that refugees and immigrants are destroying European culture and that diversity is dumbing down America.
Horowitz himself has said that American blacks are richer, more privileged, freer than blacks anywhere in the world, including all black run countries. He responded to the news that a man was arrested after vowing to kill all white police at the White House by saying: Meanwhile, the countrys only serious race war against whites continues. DeSantis is running against Democrat Andrew Gillum, the African American mayor of Tallahassee....
The larger story here, as Adam Serwer recently documented, is that we are currently seeing the careful mainstreaming of white nationalism, even if overt white supremacists are getting driven from the public square. Such sentiments are gaining a foothold in the GOP, thanks to prominent right-wing media personalities who regularly sound the veiled and not so veiled refrain that the browning of America represents at bottom a severe cultural and demographic threat to white America. As Serwer notes, openly committed white nationalists and supremacists alike hear in this rhetoric an exhortation to whites to understand that they are under existential racial attack albeit one so couched that it can air on Fox News.