{"id":3074,"date":"2020-06-25T20:36:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/whats-that-again\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T20:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:36:25","slug":"whats-that-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/whats-that-again\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s That Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2013\/05\/what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a-social-construct\/275872\/\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Andrew [Sullivan] writes that liberals should stop saying &quot;truly stupid things like race has no biological element.&quot; I agree. Race clearly has a biological element &#8212; <em>because we have awarded it one<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">That is quite a clever self-contradiction, and undoubtedly a delight to the <em>bien-pensant<\/em> readers of <em>The Atlantic<\/em>.&#0160; Race has a biological element and yet it doesn&#39;t because race is merely socially construed to have a biological element.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Socially construed by whom?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&quot;Race,&quot; writes the great historian Nell Irvin Painter, &quot;is an idea, not a fact.&quot; Indeed. Race does not need biology. Race only requires some good guys with big guns looking for a reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Got that?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates: Andrew [Sullivan] writes that liberals should stop saying &quot;truly stupid things like race has no biological element.&quot; I agree. Race clearly has a biological element &#8212; because we have awarded it one. That is quite a clever self-contradiction, and undoubtedly a delight to the bien-pensant readers of The Atlantic.&#0160; Race has a biological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/whats-that-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s That Again?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}