{"id":34651,"date":"2018-01-13T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34651"},"modified":"2018-01-13T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T17:39:48","slug":"a-challenge-for-the-terminally-self-righteous-regarding-the-word-shthole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/a-challenge-for-the-terminally-self-righteous-regarding-the-word-shthole\/","title":{"rendered":"A challenge for the terminally self-righteous (regarding the word &#8220;sh*thole)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/trump_has_his_enemies_dancing_to_his_tune_with_shhole_counties_comments.html\" target=\"_blank\">lets Trump manipulate it into a frenzy<\/a> once again, I have a challenge for the terminally self-righteous: <\/p>\n<p>Name me just 10 countries in Africa &#8230; okay, seven &#8230; no, just aim for five to make it easy &#8230; that you consider to be as educated, prosperous, technologically sophisticated, opportunity-driven, stable, and well-governed as (oh, just for instance) Norway. <\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re at it, NPR, maybe you can quit broadcasting long segments on how earnestly you debated &#8212; searching heart, soul, conscience, and all the laws of human decency &#8212; before using the term sh*thole on the air. Nobody actually cares.<\/p>\n<p>Trump may be a vulgar, narcissistic, ill-informed, predatory buffoon. His grasp of history (particularly the history of immigration) may be slight. He probably also doesn&#8217;t understand the disruptions and outrages perpetrated by European colonizers who wanted Africa&#8217;s resources while not giving a rip about its people or their cultures. <\/p>\n<p>But if you &#8212; not you my dear regular blog readers, but you who are working yourself into a heart attack over Trump&#8217;s latest &#8212; disagree with his &#8220;sh*thole&#8221; characterization, let&#8217;s hear about the civilizational glories &#8212; present, not ancient &#8212; of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the media lets Trump manipulate it into a frenzy once again, I have a challenge for the terminally self-righteous: Name me just 10 countries in Africa &#8230; okay, seven &#8230; no, just aim for five to make it easy &#8230; that you consider to be as educated, prosperous, technologically sophisticated, opportunity-driven, stable, and well-governed as (oh, just for instance) Norway. And while you&#8217;re at it, NPR, maybe you can quit broadcasting long segments on how earnestly you debated &#8212; searching heart, soul, conscience, and all the laws of human decency &#8212; before using the term sh*thole on the air.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/a-challenge-for-the-terminally-self-righteous-regarding-the-word-shthole\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A challenge for the terminally self-righteous (regarding the word &#8220;sh*thole)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34658,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34651\/revisions\/34658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}