{"id":8637,"date":"2013-07-16T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/charles-blow\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:42:09","slug":"charles-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/charles-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw Mr. Blow and his lovely wife on TV last night.  A charming couple.  I mean that sincerely.  But when I read his columns I am reminded that we live in the Age of Feeling, as Dennis Prager calls it. There is no thinking in Blow's op-ed pieces for The New York Times<\/em>, only emoting. Add 'Blow' to the list of aptronyms<\/a>.  His latest is The Whole System Failed Trayvon Martin<\/a>.  I was tempted to sort through the nonsense it contains, but thought better of it.  Time is short and some writings are beneath refutation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blow has a skull full of mush, but at least he is articulate.  The real problems of the black community lie much deeper, not in any systemic or institutional racism — the imputation of which to our great country is just slanderous nonsense — but in a culture that produces people like Rachel Jeantel<\/a> who belong to a seemingly unassimilable indigenous subculture.    A fellow blogger  points to the genetic factors involved, remarking that the culture that produces a Jeantel is itself produced by Jeantels.  I responded that the genetics are given, while the social and cultural factors are malleable.  I don't want to believe that a person like her cannot be taught to read, write, and speak basic English.  <\/span><\/p>\n

And while we are on the topic of Ms. Jeantel, she explains here<\/a> that Zimmi simply failed to appreciate the cultural context in which he was being "whoop-assed."  How insensitive of him!  Had he been able properly to contextualize the beat-down, he surely would not have 'smoked' the poor boy.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Mr. Blow and his lovely wife on TV last night.  A charming couple.  I mean that sincerely.  But when I read his columns I am reminded that we live in the Age of Feeling, as Dennis Prager calls it. There is no thinking in Blow's op-ed pieces for The New York Times, only emoting. Add 'Blow' … Continue reading “Charles Blow”<\/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":[180,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","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=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}