{"id":11495,"date":"2008-03-19T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11495"},"modified":"2008-03-19T05:50:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T11:50:15","slug":"troubling-moral-equivalence-watch-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11495","title":{"rendered":"Troubling Moral Equivalence Watch [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\/id\/2186845\">Kaus has an excellent post up <\/a>on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives2\/2008\/03\/020072.php\">Throw Grandma Under the Bus Speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neologism: &#8220;equibblelence&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Later, he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So when [whites] are told &#8230; that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who would tell them such a thing? Obama, a dozen paragraphs earlier, dissing his own grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>In general. Obama&#8217;s explanations of black anger seem intimate and respectful. His explanations of white anger seem distant and condescending. (&#8220;They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away &#8230;.&#8221;) Unfortunately for him, it&#8217;s white votes he needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaus has an excellent post up on the Throw Grandma Under the Bus Speech. Neologism: &#8220;equibblelence&#8221; Excerpt: Later, he says: So when [whites] are told &#8230; that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time. Who would tell them such a thing? Obama, a dozen paragraphs earlier, dissing his own grandmother. In general. Obama&#8217;s explanations of black anger seem intimate and respectful. His explanations<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11495\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}