DeSantis signs Florida law banning local DEI funding, says white men are 'disfavored'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — White men have been discriminated against through diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday after signing legislation which prohibits counties and cities from funding or promoting DEI initiatives.

The Republican governor defined DEI at a news conference as “an ideological construct that is designed to promote a particular political agenda, particularly to the detriment of disfavored groups.”

“The disfavored groups, No. 1, obviously, would be white males, and I think they’ve been discriminated against," DeSantis said in Jacksonville. "And it’s it’s like a lot of people are, ‘Oh that’s fine. That’s fine.’ No, it’s not fine. It’s wrong.”

While the governor is entitled to his opinion, his views differ from “everyone else's,” said Evelyn Foxx, president of the NAACP branch in Gainesville.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/desantis-signs-florida-law-banning-204733162.html

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Not really unless that you're talking about the stereotypical Florida man.

[Ocelot II]

1. In other words, mediocre white men aren't always getting the jobs and promotions

they think their privilege entitles them to. Of course that has to stop.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

2. Gods, I'm glad he's on his way out.

Fingers crossed we don’t get another fascist arsehole in the governor’s office. *sigh*

[wolfie001]

3. Poor, poor white guys

Is this from The Onion?

[BaronChocula]

4. Like the white man who

won two presidential elections after decades of fraud, lying, settlements, bankruptcies, business losses, and 34 felony counts?
Yeah. White guys in America can't catch a break!

[Vinca]

5. Pass me the Kleenex. The poor, poor white men. Through the centuries they've always had to struggle

to get anywhere in life. I think back a few decades to when I was the first woman on a police force. I guess I should have been more understanding when I ended up in an altercation with a woman I was trying to arrest and the poor, white, male officers just stood there and watched what was later described around the station as a "cat fight." Then there was the wage issue before I went to the police academy and was still at my IBM Selectric in the pink ghetto typing reports. Barely above minimum wage. The suffering of white men brings a person to tears.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. In other words, Ronnie D, OVER-QUALIFIED POC or Women need NOT apply.

That just leaves the white men.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. To me, disfavored translates into can't get laid. ...

Am I missing something?

[Torchlight]

8. Equality can seem a step down when looking from above.

Interpreting his Obvious Dog Whistle, "White men are facing negative consequences for engaging in and bragging about systemic discrimination" isn't quite the strong point he thinks it is... but he does score points with his base.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. Actually he meant to say that WHITE BOOTS are disfavored.

?

[JoseBalow]

10. Ay, pobrecito!

[Initech]

11. Can we please fire this racist piece of shit already?

[The Grand Illuminist]

12. We allow these things to happen.

That is the main problem.

[chouchou]

13. Actually, DeSantis is Trump reality 2.

Of course, he was in Jacksonville. (Jacksonville is akin to Hogsville Georgia.)

[Solly Mack]

14. SMH

[twodogsbarking]

15. Anyone think he isn't racist? Anyone? Hello..........