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(3/6) Something about Ron DeSantis' comments on the August 27th shooting in Florida placed a splinter in my mind. DeSantis is the current governor of the state of Florida, and has recently been criticized throughout the country, even by other Republican party members, for endorsing reforms to Florida's education system. Some of these reforms include a mandate that teachers instruct students that slavery was beneficial to enslaved African Americans.

A racist Republican who hates Black people. Okay.

But then, just a few days ago, in Florida, a racist with a gun covered in drawings of swastikas murdered three Black people in cold blood. And Ron DeSantis called him a scumbag.

DeSantis is both a great and terrible example of what I'm talking about. Terrible, because nobody actually believes he gives a damn about Black people. Great, because even someone as callously anti-Black as DeSantis is using niceness (and this tragedy) as a shield for his barbarism at the policy level.