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What an anti-lynching law means in 2022

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that classifies lynching as a federal hate crime, punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Though Biden emphasized the significance of the legislation during a ceremony and praised its broad support, the bill’s path to approval has been fraught: It has taken more than 100 years and 200 attempts for proponents to achieve victory.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/55">Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act</a>, named after the 14-year-old boy who was kidnapped, brutally beaten, and shot by a mob of white men in Mississippi in 1955 before they threw him into a river, allows an act to be prosecuted as a lynching when a person conspires to commit a hate crime that results in death, serious bodily injury, and other serious harms.
The bill’s passage is long overdue, but its arrival still has an important symbolic power and will give federal prosecutors another tool to prosecute some of the country’s most brutal hate crimes. In other words, the act builds on the severity of the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/laws-and-policies">federal hate crimes laws that already exist</a>.
“Lynching is a clear example of one’s inhumanity toward another. It’s a uniquely American act of terrorism that is motivated by hatred, and, before today, was never punished by our legal system,” Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/5/13/21254988/bobby-rush-anti-lynching-act-ahmaud-arbery">longtime sponsor of the legislation</a>, told Vox. “Emmett Till would’ve been 80 years old. I’m 75, and I just imagine the kinds of contributions he would have made to our society. Biden’s signing of the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act sends a message that America will no longer continue to ignore this shameful chapter of our history and that the government engaged in legislative failure for far too long.”
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<figcaption>Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) shakes hands with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) during a bill enrollment ceremony for the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act on March 16.</figcaption>
<cite>Drew Angerer/Getty Images</cite></figure>
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The new act amends the existing federal criminal code, created by the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law in 2009. The language of the new provision suggests that there is a difference between lynching and murder.
The difference is in the historic and present-day effect of lynchings; the idea that the person who was killed is not the only victim. And lynchings are typically motivated by the victim’s race, religion, sexual orientation, or other identifier. “Lynching has typically sent a message to an entire community that ‘you’re not safe here’ or ‘you could be next.’ Lynching has typically been motivated by racial animus and harms an entire community,” said Justin Hansford, a law professor at Howard University.
The three men convicted in 2021 of murdering Ahmaud Arbery — Travis and Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan — could have been charged with lynching if the law were in effect, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/5/13/21254988/bobby-rush-anti-lynching-act-ahmaud-arbery">Rush told Vox</a>. On top of the state-level charges that they were convicted of — among them malice murder, felony murder, and false imprisonment — their crime could have been tried as a “lynching” at the federal level. A federal grand jury <a href="https://www.vox.com/22922329/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crimes-federal-trial-guilty">did indict the three men</a> on hate crimes, attempted kidnapping, and separate counts of using firearms in the process. According to Rep. Rush, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/7/18131240/unite-the-right-murder-heather-heyer-james-fields-charlottesville-life-sentence">the man who murdered Heather Heyer</a> with his vehicle in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 could have also been charged under the new law.
A Justice Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity told Vox that the new provision would, in fact, allow for greater penalties for “a subset of completed hate crimes committed by multiple people acting together.” The Justice Department pointed out that the victim does not have to be killed for a perpetrator to be charged with lynching; “serious bodily injury” would suffice.
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<figcaption>People hold up a banner referencing the murder of Ahmaud Arbery at the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama, on March 6.</figcaption>
<cite>Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images</cite></figure>
Since at least 1900, <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/12/21/18151805/senate-lynching-legislation-hate-crimes-booker-harris-scott">legislators have tried</a> to criminalize lynching. That year, North Carolina Rep. George H. White, then the only Black person in Congress, introduced an anti-lynching measure that eventually failed. Similar legislation was introduced in nearly every subsequent decade but was thwarted by the Senate filibuster or opponents who claimed the issue should be left to states.
In 2018, then-Sen. Kamala Harris, along with Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tim Scott (R-SC), introduced similar legislation — the <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/12/21/18151805/senate-lynching-legislation-hate-crimes-booker-harris-scott">Justice for Victims of Lynching Act</a> — but it was never taken up by the House. As recently as 2020, the House passed a previous version of Rush’s bill, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/politics/rand-paul-emmett-till-antilynching-act-senate/index.html">objected to its unanimous passage</a> in the Senate on the grounds that the bill was too broad.
Following a revision to include the phrase “death or serious bodily injury” and an extension of the maximum sentence from 10 years to 30, the bill now represents the first time the country has codified an anti-lynching measure, signaling national recognition that lynchings have destroyed lives and families in some of the ugliest and most tragic ways — and that the federal government never intervened.
“Between 1936 and 1938, the national headquarters of the NAACP hung a flag with the words ‘A man was lynched yesterday,’ solemn reminders of the dark eddies of our nation’s past,” Booker told Vox. “Although no legislation will reverse the pain and fear felt by those victims, their loved ones, and Black communities, this legislation is a necessary step America must take to heal from the racialized violence that has permeated its history.”
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<figcaption>A flag hanging outside the headquarters of the NAACP in New York, in 1936.</figcaption>
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Two years after a stunted racial reckoning in America, terror against minority groups remains ever-present — <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2020-hate-crime-statistics">the FBI</a> found that hate crimes were at their <a href="https://eji.org/news/fbi-reports-hate-crimes-at-highest-level-in-12-years/">highest levels in 12 years</a> in 2020. But even so, does the word “lynching” resonate with people in 2022? Does the new law have the power to deter racist violence? Will the federal government be inclined to prosecute perpetrators under the new legislation? And will locking up perpetrators bring justice and healing to victims, their loved ones, and the broader communities impacted?
“The most transformative civil rights legislation that we have has been paid for by the blood of Black people,” Damon Hewitt, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told Vox. “Most victims of these crimes are dead. So this is definitely symbolic for surviving family members since a prison sentence won’t bring someone back.”
But there’s more to the legislation, Hewitt said. “One interesting thing about the Black experience, when it comes to the justice system, is it’s not just about being the target of harassment and state violence. There’s a desire to be protected and to be recognized as a full American, a full citizen, a full human. When people talk about Black Lives Matter, that’s what it means,” Hewitt said. “This legislation sends a signal that, yes, the lives of Ahmaud Arbery and others lynched do matter, that the people who commit violence against them will be prosecuted under the full extent of the law.”
<h3>Lynching back then — and now</h3>
We now know that more lynchings took place than were previously known, evidence that investigating and recording lynchings is a difficult process. A recent <a href="https://eji.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/11/reconstruction-in-america-rev-111521.pdf">report</a> from the Equal Justice Initiative found that nearly 6,500 “racial terror lynchings” took place in America between 1865 and 1950. The report documents nearly 2,000 Black people were lynched by white mobs between 1865 and 1877, during Reconstruction after the Civil War, alone. The organization <a href="https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/">defines</a> a racial terror lynching, which they say peaked between 1880 and 1940, as “violent and public acts of torture that traumatized Black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials.”
Research from the <a href="https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america">NAACP</a>, which defines “lynching” as “the public killing of an individual who hasn’t received due process,” found that 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States between 1882 and 1968, with the majority of them — 3,446 — being lynchings of Black Americans. Other minority groups and some white people were lynched, too, like the Texas lynching of <a href="https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/porvenir-massacre">15 Latin Americans</a> one night in 1918 and the <a href="https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/chinese-massacre-1871">mass lynching</a> of Chinese people in 1871.
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<aside><q>“The most transformative civil rights legislation that we have has been paid for by the blood of Black people” —Damon Hewitt</q></aside>
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These reports reveal that lynching wasn’t just about a Black person being hanged by the neck but also about “the slow, methodical, sadistic, often highly inventive forms of torture and mutilation,” as historian Leon Litwack wrote in Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. For this reason, some modern-day murders, Hewitt said, can still be considered lynchings.
“Lynching, for some people, might feel like a word that is starting to lose its power because it doesn’t feel real and present,” Hewitt said. “But it is kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap. It is torture. It is the sexual abuse that sometimes happens when someone is kidnapped. It is murder.”
Under this definition, examples of modern-day lynchings abound: There’s Abner Louima whom white police officers brutally beat and sodomized with a wooden stick in New York City in 1997; In 1998, James Byrd Jr. was kidnapped, beaten, chained to a car, and dragged for three miles before he died. Many referred to the more recent killings of George Floyd and <a href="https://www.vox.com/21263899/ahmaud-arbery-lynched-video-mcmichael-glynn-county-georgia">Ahmaud Arbery as lynchings</a>. Both men were held against their will, publicly brutalized, and killed at the hands of white men.
<h3>How the law fits the present</h3>
The new law would cement a meaning of lynching into the federal code. “Whoever conspires to commit a hate crime offense that results in death or serious bodily injury or that includes kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill shall, if death or serious bodily injury results from the offense, be imprisoned for not more than 30 years, fined in accordance with this title, or both,” the law reads.
The provision also counters modern interpretations of lynchings. Think Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s use of the phrase “high-tech lynching” when his then-colleague Anita Hill called him out for inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace during his Supreme Court nomination hearings, or Trump’s more recent use of the term to describe his impeachment. “People have certainly misused the term and over the years it has started to lose its force,” Hewitt said. But there are still a number of crimes and killings that we would still consider lynchings, he said.
Additionally, the law gives the federal government power to bring more charges against perpetrators, especially those who act together. People who work together to commit a crime will be charged the same regardless of their role in an attack. A Justice Department official told Vox that prosecutors will be able to charge a defendant under both the new anti-lynching act and under the provisions that already existed.
The law might also bring greater attention to the various cold cases that involve the mysterious deaths of Black people. “In these cases there often isn’t enough information to find the perpetrator and charge someone so they are often classified as suicides. But a lot of these cases could very well be classic lynchings,” Hewitt said.
In 2020, two Black men, Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/6/15/21291465/robert-fuller-palmdale-california-malcolm-harsch-hanging">were both found dead from hanging</a> in Southern California just days apart from one another. Authorities claimed there was no foul play in either death, though both families were skeptical. There were <a href="https://www.vox.com/21295670/robert-fuller-malcolm-harsch-hanging-history-lynching">no further investigations</a> in either death. Federal prosecutors likely wouldn’t bring charges forward without more information, but since the law now defines lynching, lawmakers hope that prosecutors will be inclined to give these cases another look.
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<figcaption>A woman attaches balloons to the tree that authorities say Robert Fuller, 24, was found hanging from in Palmdale, California, on June 13, 2020.</figcaption>
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<figcaption>Malcolm Harsch, 38, was found hanging from a tree near a homeless encampment in Victorville, California, on May 31, 2020.</figcaption>
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<figcaption>Candles and signs are placed beneath the tree in Victorville, California, where Malcolm Harsch was found hanged.</figcaption>
<cite>Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images</cite></figure>
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It’s unclear how the new legislation would handle deaths at the hands of law enforcement. “When it’s the police, we usually think about excessive force under Section 1983, which allows someone to sue the government if they’ve been a victim of police brutality,” Hansford, the Howard law professor, said. “These hate crimes laws are usually reserved for people who are not on duty as police officers when they commit a crime.”
For example, scholars <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/706749/pdf">have suggested</a> that the death of Sandra Bland, who reportedly died by suicide by hanging herself in a jail cell after being pulled over by a police officer for a traffic violation in Texas in 2015, could be considered a lynching, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/us/sandra-bland-texas-death.html">should investigators find evidence</a> that law enforcement officials were involved. But even if that evidence emerged, an officer on duty would argue that they were defending themselves, Hansford said, and the DOJ might be less likely to bring lynching charges against a police officer.
Though commentators viewed George Floyd’s murder as a lynching, Minnesota’s attorney general <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/550211-minnesota-ag-explains-why-floyd-death-not-charged-as-hate-crime?rl=1">declined to charge</a> former police officer Derek Chauvin with a hate crime, claiming there was no evidence to prove that Floyd’s race motivated Chauvin to pin Floyd down with his knee. The DOJ did <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-minneapolis-police-officer-derek-chauvin-pleads-guilty-federal-court-depriving-george">eventually bring charges against Chauvin that he pleaded guilty to</a>, but they were not hate crime charges.
“This bill isn’t just saying, ‘Don’t lynch people anymore because we don’t do that anymore.’ It builds upon the body of a statutory framework that the Department of Justice has at its disposal,” Hewitt said.
Still, the extent of the new legislation’s power will come down to whether the Department of Justice plans to even use it. As Vox’s Jamil Smith <a href="https://www.vox.com/22922329/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crimes-federal-trial-guilty">reported</a>, hate crimes prosecutions themselves are uncommon and can be rarer depending on who is in office.
Between 2005 and 2009, the DOJ investigated 647 hate crimes. They investigated fewer under President Donald Trump — 597 between 2015 and 2019, an 8 percent decrease. “In total, however, of nearly 1,900 suspects investigated between 2005 and 2019, 82 percent were not prosecuted. The overwhelming majority of those cases were not pursued for lack of evidence,” Smith wrote.
An official at the Department of Justice told Vox that “eliminating hate crimes and bias-motivated violence” is one of the department’s top priorities.
“I know that the activists and people who are freedom-seeking won’t just sit around and let the Justice Department ignore this power granted to them under this act,” Rep. Rush told Vox. “Local law enforcement tried to ignore what happened to George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, but the people didn’t let that happen.”
Hansford added that there’s more room for healing and thinking more broadly about how lynching affects entire communities. “These laws make sure that perpetrators get more time behind bars but they don’t consider how the family moves forward financially and psychologically,” Hansford said. “America still needs to recognize that our whole community deserves healing.”
 
 
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Majority of French Agree With Zemmour’s ‘Remigration’ Policy

Some Ukrainian refugees are refusing to go to multicultural Sweden because they fear for their safety, according to a report by news outlet Nyheter Idag.
The report consisted of on the ground testimony from Jimmy Hemmingsson, a Swedish refugee worker who is currently in the Polish capital of Warsaw attempting to help Ukrainian refugees reach the Scandinavian country.
However, citing concerns about a rise in shootings in Sweden, as well as fears over social services taking their children away, many Ukrainian refugees are declining Hemmingsson’s offer.
“He revealed that he was currently having a hard time filling the buses destined for Stockholm,” reports <a href="https://rmx.news/article/some-ukrainian-refugees-fear-sweden-citing-public-safety-concerns/">ReMix News</a>.
“There are a lot of rumors. People are vulnerable, they hear one thing, and then it becomes a reality,” Hemmingsson said.
“It’s easy for me to walk around and say that I’m a good old man named Jimmy and come from Sweden, but it gives no one confidence. An authority would do that,” he added.
As we previously <a href="https://summit.news/2021/05/26/sweden-goes-from-being-one-of-the-safest-countries-in-europe-to-the-second-most-dangerous/">reported</a>, having been one of the safest countries in Europe 20 years ago before mass uncontrolled immigration, Sweden is now the continent’s second most dangerous in terms of gun crime behind only Croatia.
Last year, Germany’s Bild newspaper <a href="https://rmx.news/article/sweden-is-the-most-dangerous-country-in-europe-writes-germanys-top-selling-newspaper/">ran the headline</a>: ‘Sweden is the most dangerous country in Europe.’
Shootings in Sweden hit a record high last year as authorities are increasingly unable to contain migrant gang crime. There were 46 homicides committed in 335 shootings across, with most of them occurring in the migrant hotspots of Malmö, Gothenburg, and Stockholm.
As we highlight in the video below, fears expressed by Ukrainian refugees are well founded.
Female refugees who were housed in a hostel in Örebro revealed how they were stalked, sexually harassed and intimidated by groups of Somali migrant men.
After the harrowing experience, some of those involved said they’d prefer to take their chances and return home to the war.
“When there are bombs, I know at least that I can go down to the basement and hide there,” one woman told Swedish news outlet Samnytt.
But remember; Diversity is a strength.
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Fauci Says We’ll Never Know If Covid Restrictions Really Worked, Admits Lockdowns Had “Negative Consequences”

No one will ever know whether Covid restrictions that destroyed the economy and devastated the lives of everyday citizens were worth it, Biden chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted to the BBC.
Asked by <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bxsxft" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BBC One Sunday Morning</a>‘s Sophie Raworth whether the lockdowns “were worth it, or too severe,” Fauci answered it would be impossible to measure their effectiveness, but acknowledged that in hindsight the restrictions had negative psychological effects on the population.
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“You know, I don’t think we’re ever going to determine what the right balance is. I think the restrictions, if you want to use that word, which I tend to shy away from, lockdowns certainly prevented a lot of infections, a lot of hospitalizations, and prevented a lot of deaths,” he claimed, adding, “There’s no doubt about that.”
“Obviously when you do have that kind of restriction on society there are unintended negative consequences, particularly in children who are not allowed to go to school, in the psychological and mental health aspects it has on children, in the economic stress that it puts on society in general, on individual families, obviously those are negative consequences that are unintended.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the NIAID Director also advised people should be ready to go into lockdown mode in the event of a new Covid-19 outbreak.
“I don’t want to use the word ‘lockdowns.’ That has a charged element to it,” he said. “But, I believe that we must keep our eye on the pattern of what we’re seeing with infections.”
“Having said that, we need to be prepared for the possibility that we would have another variant that would come along,” Fauci said. “And then, if things change and we do get a variant that does give us an uptick in cases and hospitalization, we should be prepared and flexible enough to pivot toward going back – at least temporarily – to a more rigid type of restrictions, such as requiring masks indoor.”
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Fauci’s comments come as the FDA <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/mrna-madness-fda-authorizes-both-4th-and-5th-covid-shots/" target="_blank">authorized</a> fourth and fifth booster jabs Tuesday.
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Top Disney Execs Talk About Their “Not-At-All-Secret Gay Agenda” & Flooding Shows With LGBTQIA Characters

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In response to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing HB 1557 into law this week, Disney employees held a meeting to discuss how they will try to push back in court.
The bill reads, “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
Journalist Christopher Rufo was able to obtain footage of Disney’s virtual meeting regarding the bill.
Latoya Raveneau, an Executive Producer at Disney Television Animation, explained during one segment of the meeting how she has a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” she tries to place into shows she produces.
For example, in “The Proud Family”, Raveneau said she was “adding queerness” wherever she could, like two same-sex characters kissing.
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SCOOP: I've obtained video from inside Disney's all-hands meeting about the Florida parental rights bill, in which executive producer Latoya Raveneau says her team has implemented a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and is regularly "adding queerness" to children's programming. <a href="https://t.co/eJnZMpKIXT">pic.twitter.com/eJnZMpKIXT</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508912865293619202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another video posted by Rufo showed Disney Corporate President Karey Burke explaining how her experience as a mother raising one trans child and one pansexual child has helped her realize there aren’t enough queer lead characters in Disney movies and shows.
“We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and yet, we don’t have enough leads,” she complained.
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SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, "as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child," she supports having "many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories" and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities. <a href="https://t.co/oFRUiuu9JG">pic.twitter.com/oFRUiuu9JG</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508926408332034049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Disney’s Diversity and Inclusion Manager Vivian Ware explained that their theme parks have removed all gender-based greetings and trained their staff to say “friend” or “dreamer” instead of boy or girl.
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SCOOP: Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware says the company has eliminated all mentions of "ladies," "gentlemen," "boys," and "girls" in its theme parks in order to create "that magical moment" for children who do not identify with traditional gender roles. <a href="https://t.co/OWsGTUoeCA">pic.twitter.com/OWsGTUoeCA</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508937431520890888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The company’s Production Coordinator Allen March’s team created a “tracker” to ensure a sufficient amount of “gender nonconforming characters”, “trans” and “bisexual” characters are appearing in Disney programming.
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SCOOP: Disney production coordinator Allen March says his team is committed to "exploring queer stories" and has created a "tracker" to make sure they are creating enough "gender nonconforming characters," "canonical trans characters," and "canonical bisexual characters." <a href="https://t.co/ddSzw4aqQv">pic.twitter.com/ddSzw4aqQv</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508934581092765700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During another part of the meeting, Disney’s activism partner Nadine Smith of Equality Florida told gay Disney employees that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) and his press secretary Christina Pushaw want to “erase” them, “criminalize” their existence and take their kids.
Gay Republican commentator Dave Rubin joked that he had dinner with DeSantis and Pushaw last week and that they didn’t criminalize his existence, adding, “but the steak was quite good.”
“Also the governor got a huge standing ovation from the entire restaurant on his way out…” he concluded.
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I had dinner with the governor, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChristinaPushaw</a> and a few others last week. I don’t remember them erasing me or criminalizing my existence but the steak was quite good. Also the governor got a huge standing ovation from the entire restaurant on his way out… <a href="https://t.co/HFcmi5SRHi">https://t.co/HFcmi5SRHi</a>
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1508940751262081026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, four <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/watch-four-disney-employees-retired-judge-among-108-arrested-human-trafficking-sting-central-florida-polk-county-sheriff-grady-judd/" target="_blank">Disney employees were arrested</a> during a human trafficking sting operation in central Florida earlier this month.
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