Florida's republican primary winner was a admin for an alt-right FB group. - Polidicks

https://thinkprogress.org/florida-gop-gubernatorial-nominee-ron-desantis-admin-racist-anti-muslim-facebook-group-6e6d527c6fc2/ The group’s members have shared racist, misogynist, and offensive posts, including posts slamming Parkland shooting survivors and disparaging Black Lives Matter activists, comparing both to Hitler. Members have made statements against NFL players who kneel during the anthem in protest of police brutality, calling them “overpaid ball chasers” who “kneel like ISIS.” Users have also posted bigoted statements against Muslims, referring to Islam as a religion of “pedophilia, sex slavery, rape gangs, and honor killings.” The group’s members have also denied that the far-right, white supremacist rally in Charlottesville took place in August 2017, claiming that it was a hoax “orchestrated by the left” to “destroy America.”

The group’s members have also denied that the far-right, white supremacist rally in Charlottesville took place in August 2017, claiming that it was a hoax “orchestrated by the left” to “destroy America.” ...fucking what? They don't deny that the rally was arranged by alt-righters, 1600 people in this group genuinely accept that the rally itself was a hoax. The era of post-truth is laughable and terrifying.

We've always been at war with Eastasia

Also from Ron DeSantis During the Republican primary, DeSantis emphasized his support for Trump, for example running an ad where DeSantis taught his children how to "build the wall" and say "Make America Great Again", as well as dress his children in a tiny red "Make America Great Again" jumper.[28] Asked if he could name an issue where he disagreed with Trump, DeSantis did not name a single issue.

He also within a few hours of the primaries told people not to vote for his opponent in the general as it would "Monkey things up" in Florida. No prizes for guessing what race his opponent is.

The group’s members have also denied that the far-right, white supremacist rally in Charlottesville took place in August 2017, claiming that it was a hoax “orchestrated by the left” to “destroy America.” "Fuck black people, hail Trump!" "also those people chanting 'fuck black people' and 'hail Trump' were false flaggers, we would never do that"

Do you know what an idiom is?

When has that ever been a common idiom int he context he used it in. And how fucking tone deaf do you have to be in 2018 to say shit like that and not imagine how it will be interpreted?

Do you know what social awareness is?

Yes I'm sure the admin of a racist group didn't intend any racism when saying his black opponent would "monkey things up".

How vengeful do you have to be to realize that it's a common idiom, regardless of context, and purposefully interpret it in the worst way possible? I do. I also understand that the world isn't perfect, and sometimes people say things that sound wrong.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1034857288987828224

Man who is part of an extremely racist and xenophobic group calls a black person a monkey, "people say stuff that sounds wrong sometimes guys".

Where do you live where "Monkey things up" or "Monkey this up" is a thing that's said commonly

"Man is this because of guilt by association" In the US. Where do you live that it isn't widely known?

Because this tool has a pattern and history of saying racist shit? Did you just ignore the thread? How about that time he attended a conference with a bunch of racist and misogynist proud boys and other upstanding citizens? Or when he said "yes" to lynching and refused to denounce it at a campaign event? Or when him and his supporters chanted "NRA" at the dance team of one of the murdered Parkland teenagers? If it looks like a racist, talks like a racist, and hags ou with racists then it's probably a fucking racist. How blind do you have to be to rush to the defence of any and all idiots with an (R) next to their name?

It's not just what was said either, it's who said it. Again, the guy was an admin of a racist group, if it was just some guy that didn't have a known history of being a massive racist then maybe it could be excused.

"guys, he may be part of a online nazi group, but what he meant by gas the jews was a simple idiom for fueling his car". Fox news knew it was a racist remark, other news agencies knew it was a racist remark, everyone knows its a racist remark. How about you stop denying reality and stop defending an open racist.

It never happened but I assure you that there were good people on both sides of the thing that never happened. Also, yeah, "monkey up" is an idiom, yeah, ok, now tell me that "chimp out" is an idiom, Silence. I'll wait.

His opponent in the primary, Adam Putnam, let over 100,000 carry permits through without full background checks because an employee couldn't fucking log into the FBI website.

I live in Florida where this happened and I have literally never heard anyone ever say anything remotely similar.

It's called dog whistling. Quit it with this dumb feigned naivety. Everyone knows what the fuck he was insinuating.

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” I aint saying it was necessarily the intention, but given the context...

Do you know that "monkey things up" is not an idiom? https://i.imgur.com/nSHqUTl.png Did you also know that "monkey up" as an idiom means "to get angry" not to mess up, as he's using it here.

Y'know I remember seeing this guy's ads on TV and yet I still physically cringe at this shit lmao. It's like sucking Trump's dick is the new republican pasttime. Must be interesting living in a cult.

It's not just "the pasttime" it's basically the republican party platform to hate America as much as Trump does.

I know you can hear the dog whistle.

I uh, think it’s safe to who I’m voting for—the one who’s not a racist clown.

In the US.

Hopefully if nothing else him claiming that all the alt right terrorists at Charlottesville were false flags might cause him to lose some support from the apt right, those guys have cultish devotion to their leaders, and with the exception of Trump all the alt right leaders in this country were at that rally.