A.G. Gancarski
If Ron DeSantis becomes President, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division would have a new task.
The Florida Governor and 2024 Republican candidate told radio host Hugh Hewitt the Justice Department would branch out its understanding of civil rights to “do all discrimination” as part of “taking some of these agencies and making sure they’re actually doing the things that we would want.”
One of those “things,” DeSantis noted, would be going after diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
“For example, like the Civil Rights Division, our Civil Rights Division in Justice will do all discrimination,” DeSantis promised.
“Yes, of course, you don’t discriminate against a racial minority. But you also have to look at corporate America, government, academia, how they are wielding things like DEI in a discriminatory manner against other people. And so we will say no tolerance for discrimination of all kind, regardless of whether you’re in the majority or the minority.”
Much of the DOJ Civil Rights Division’s recent work includes targeting hate crimes, discrimination in prison and employer abuses of immigrants. In addition to helping marginalized communities, the Governor would also focus on protecting the “majority.”
The comments from DeSantis follow an award presenter at the Tony Awards likening DeSantis to a Ku Klux Klan “Grand Wizard” on Sunday, a day after people in Nazi regalia demonstrated outside Walt Disney World with at least one DeSantis 2024 sign.
DeSantis has already promised to remove DEI from the military, saying it’s “diverting from the core mission” and “recruiting is suffering, people are leaving the service.”
The Governor has also blamed “DEI and politics and all kinds of stuff” for the failure of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year.
DeSantis declared war on DEI this year in rolling out legislative proposals “pushing back against the tactics of liberal elites who suppress free thought in the name of identity politics and indoctrination.” These proposals targeting universities and colleges spending money “for discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination” became law during the 2023 Legislative Session.
But the Governor’s derision of DEI is new. Earlier, in his first term, his administration greenlighted much of it in the very colleges he’s targeted more recently.
DeSantis told reporters in February he was ignorant of the subject back then.
“I didn’t know what DEI was a couple of years ago as this had taken hold. I mean, it sounds innocuous, right? I thought maybe diversity of ideas, maybe actually have more than one viewpoint. Well, that’s not what it is. What it is, is trying to enforce a political agenda and a political orthodoxy under the auspices of administration,” DeSantis said. “And that is something that is not in the best interests of the state.”
16 comments
Dont Say FLA
June 12, 2023 at 1:20 pm
Rhonda’s problem with plausible deniability is that it has to be plausible.
If he didn’t know what DEI was when his administration greenlighted DEI, why did he greenlight DEI?
Rhonda’s obviously a CEI kind of guy, but what kind of Eating Instructions did he think the D meant?
OH… lol. Yes. Of course.
Ed Slaveen Worldwide 👍
June 12, 2023 at 1:21 pm
They won’t do what this nut job thinks he can make them do. They’ll be sued. He’s just like Trump in that he’s just gonna get a bunch of people sued, jailed, and killed.
Dont Say FLA
June 12, 2023 at 1:29 pm
TBF they could maybe do it for 2 or 3 days before a Trump appointed judge issues an injunction.
PeterH
June 12, 2023 at 1:56 pm
The Florida Grand Wizard has spoken. Eliminate DEI WHEREVER I say it should eliminated!
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is de Santis Mussolini reborn?
June 12, 2023 at 3:19 pm
DeSantis is more dangerous than Mussolini.
Ocean Joe
June 12, 2023 at 4:45 pm
“A small man, in search of a balcony…”
ScienceBLVR
June 12, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Whoa, Ocean, a Jimmy Breslin reference? Thought the Mel Brook’s Springtime for Florida comment was quite on target, but then, you always seem to hit the meat of the matter so well.
Bill Pollard
June 12, 2023 at 6:12 pm
I’ll bet he can’t make the trains run on time.
Michael K
June 12, 2023 at 5:16 pm
He is simply out of his mind – desperate for white supremacists to march inn line behind him.
Of course he was for it before was against it.
tom palmer
June 12, 2023 at 8:22 pm
uh, isn’t that weaponizing government?
Earl Pitts American
June 12, 2023 at 9:32 pm
Good evening dook 4 brains lefties,
News Flash:
Sometimes me, Earl Pitts “The Big Voice On The Right” and my boys, The Donald and The Ronald just say wack stuff like “We’re gonna sic DOJ on y’all’s trifilling @55’s just to watch you get all like whizzed off and stuff. We enjoy doing that to you guys. Because….well…because we get a kick out of watching y’all trying to un-bunch y’all’s panties from where the sun dont shine. YEAH!
Thank you dook 4 brains lefties,
Earl Pitts American
Dont Say FLA
June 13, 2023 at 7:58 am
Mornin’ Earl. Y’all’s panties? Y’all’s? It’s Rhonda Panties that was crumpled like a piece of paper, wadded on the floor in the bedroom at Maga Lardo.
Rhonda claims, CLAIMS, they can’t even deal with trans drag queens.
That said, Rhonda was In The Navy.
Rhonda sailed the seven Seas. In the Navy. Rhonda did as they pleased. In the Navy.
Rhonda “Dee” DeSantis loves the Village People. They does whatever they can to emulate that YMCA playing Donald Jay Trump, but Rhonda will never be the Trump in Trumpism no matter how hard they tries.
Too bad senile Trump confused YMCA with CYA, Moi.
But seriously, enough fun for this morning. I predict Trump’s defense will be senility. He doesn’t want to be President again anyways. He just wants to scam elderly people out of their money. Senility might get him off the hook if he can prove it. What do you think Trump’s defense will be?
Earl Pitts American
June 13, 2023 at 12:29 pm
Thank you Dont Say,
The Donald’s already taken care of the prosicution team’s families and the Judges family as well with much love, care, and compassion to the degree that none of them will ever need to toil in the fields picking cotton under the burning sun ever again. The Donald’s just a great guy taking care of others in that way. And as a bonus and because they put on such a great show of pretending to be so totally mean and unfair to The Donald (in the dook 4 brains leftist way) it has caused The Donald’s polling numbers to skyrocket just as The Donald perdicted.
When I, Earl Pitts American, later in the campaign give the signal on National live TV by tugging on my right earlobe The Donald will end his campaign and instruct his base to support Desantis.
Dont tell the eff bea eye or they will try to surgically remove my right earlobe and thus thawart my master plan. Shhhhh.
Thanks Dont Say,
Earl Pitts American
Dont Say FLA
June 13, 2023 at 4:02 pm
Which ear lobe in somebody’s right ear lobe when you’re looking at them on the TV? I am not sure if they switch like in a mirror, or maybe go upside down like in an eyeball. Thanks you Earl
Earl Pitts American
June 13, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Oh damn Son/Daughter, good catch. I could totally fumble the master plan. And what if Trump is looking at the TV in the reflection of a mirrow?
Your right gotta come up with an even more secure Master Plan.
Thanks Son/Daughter,
Earl Pitts American
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