{"id":6523,"date":"2016-04-12T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/white-elites-versus-white-america\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T14:58:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:58:51","slug":"white-elites-versus-white-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/white-elites-versus-white-america\/","title":{"rendered":"White Elites versus White America"},"content":{"rendered":"

My man Hanson<\/a>.  I can't touch him, so I quote him:<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are two characteristics common to popular uses of the term \u201cwhite\u201d: It is almost always used pejoratively, and it is mostly voiced by elites of all backgrounds \u2014 and usually as a slur against the white working and \u201cclinger\u201d classes. So \u201cthe Latino vote\u201d reflects shared aspirations; \u201cthe white vote\u201d merely crude resentment. Those who benefit from affirmative action are not privileged, but those who do not certainly are. Whites cling in Neanderthal fashion to their legal rifles; inner-city youth hardly at all to their illegal handguns. Buying a jet-ski on credit is typical redneck stupidity; borrowing $200,000 to send a kid to a tony private university from which he will graduate more ignorant and arrogant than when he enrolled is wise. White \u201cevangelicals\u201d are puzzling for their crude hypocrisies; not so the refined paradoxes of Congregationalists and Episcopalians. Smoking is self-destruction, while injecting a strain of botulism toxin into your face is not self-mutilation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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My man Hanson.  I can't touch him, so I quote him: There are two characteristics common to popular uses of the term \u201cwhite\u201d: It is almost always used pejoratively, and it is mostly voiced by elites of all backgrounds \u2014 and usually as a slur against the white working and \u201cclinger\u201d classes. So \u201cthe Latino … Continue reading “White Elites versus White America”<\/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":[6,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","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=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}