{"id":73,"date":"2015-07-13T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgbrownone.wpengine.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2015-11-16T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T15:38:47","slug":"racism-bigotry-or-extreme-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racism, Bigotry or Extreme Political Correctne<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one needs to be older to properly grasp the nuances of what is politically correct and what is racist or bigoted.\u00a0 Vocabularies change over the years as do their connotations as the younger generations accept\/promote different interpretations and meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Like many, the recent few years have offered me several head scratching moments where I was left thinking, \u201chow could they possibly believe that comment was racist or bigoted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>My hat is off to a young lady at <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/07\/13\/doubts-of-a-social-justice-warrior\/\">Columbia University<\/a> who seemed to get a good grip on the situation and did a good job of articulating it.\u00a0\u00a0 I only hope she doesn\u2019t get any blowback on her opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racism, Bigotry or Extreme Political Correctne &nbsp; Perhaps one needs to be older to properly grasp the nuances of what is politically correct and what is racist or bigoted.\u00a0 Vocabularies change over the years as do their connotations as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/?p=73\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-education","category-new-york-city","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gippersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}