https://www.yahoo.com/news/ron-desantis-tells-florida-not-150438502.html Desantis refered to Florida governor democractic nominee, Andrew Gillum as a monkey. Desantis is trash just like the fat clown who endorsed him.
Good grief, the outrage... He did not refer to him as a monkey, he was obviously talking about his agenda.. quote “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state,” said DeSantis to Smith. Stephen Lawson, communications director for DeSantis’ campaign said the comments were about Florida’s economy. “Ron DeSantis was obviously talking about Florida not making the wrong decision to embrace the socialist policies that Andrew Gillum espouses. To characterize it as anything else is absurd,” Lawson said. “Florida’s economy has been on the move for the last eight years and the last thing we need is a far-left democrat trying to stop our success.” I am sorry if you have never used that term, to monkey with something, but is a more family friendly of saying the equivalent of "Fuck this up" or to fool with something. This hyper sensitive stance that many feel they need to take is ridiculous.
The inference was clear. Everybody knows you don't say shit like that. EVERYBODY Personally, I think he's nothing but a pig wallowing in the mud.
I'm going to guess that everyone who primarily votes democrat will say that he was being intentionally racist, and everyone who primarily votes republican will say that the phraseology was completely acceptable. If anybody's personal interpretation differs from my perception, please let me know.
Hey bro.... Have you met @Chris Craig ???? Well I have, and he's not only a great man, but an amazing human. One you'd love to be friends with. Don't you EVER lump him into the same group as Maris.... EVER. They are not cut from the same cloth.
I've voted Dem. I wouldn't say what he said was racist. It was just stupid. He's smart enough to choose different words.
...well, I for one am not a democrat but I think he used very poor judgment. But I also think most people are way too thin skinned nowadays.
No doubt it was a poor choice of words, and that he should have known better. But nice to see that there are people who can see a poor word choice and not immediately assume actual racism. I am heartened.
Thin skinned would mean they feel devastated that the guy is racist. I don’t think that’s the case for most. However, most of us don’t want a racist to represent us or make policy decisions. That’s not being thin skinned it’s being thoughtful about our leadership.
I don’t know it was intentional dog whistle racism but in today’s world I think the chances are greater that it was intentional.
I wasn't referring to this instance per se...I was talking about things in general. ...and that's part of our problem...people are too easily offended by what others say...not by what they DO, again, not by what they actually DO, but instead what they say....what ever happened to "sticks and stones..."?
I'll have to learn more about this guy to make a call. If it fits into a pattern of racism, then it was probably intentional or a Freudian slip. If he's not got a racist bone in his body (or racist muscle, or racist fat) then it was probably just an infelicitous word choice. barfo
