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LetMyPeopleVote

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Tue Sep 6, 2022, 10:30 PM Sep 2022

DeSantis has officially turned Florida into a global embarrassment

The UN has attacked DeathSantis' racist and stupid policies



https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/desantis-anti-riot-law-united-nations-rcna45623

It’s official: Ron DeSantis has literally turned Florida into an international embarrassment.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Tuesday issued a report examining discrimination across the globe that name-checked Florida House Bill 1, an oppressive anti-protest law pushed by DeSantis, the state's Republican governor.

In its report, the committee — made up of 18 members, including a representative from the United States — said it's "concerned about reports of increasing legislative measures and initiatives at the state level that unduly restrict the right to peaceful assembly following antiracism protests in recent years, such as the HB1 Combating Public Disorder law in Florida."

DeSantis signed HB1 into law last year in response to protests against police brutality that ignited in the summer of 2020. Republicans, seeking to redirect the national discourse away from racism, cherry-picked isolated incidents of violence in an effort to portray all antiracist protesters as dangerous and to delegitimize their cause......

Responding to the U.N. committee’s report, a spokesperson for DeSantis said the people of Florida are the only ones with “any bearing on the governance,” according to the Miami Herald.
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DeSantis has officially turned Florida into a global embarrassment (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 OP
Note to Harvard and Yale: please demand your degrees back from this monster CTyankee Sep 2022 #1
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