{"id":2254,"date":"2008-05-03T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2008-05-04T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T14:40:10","slug":"on-isms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"On isms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over <a href=\"http:\/\/burnettiquette.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/real-talk-about-race-chapter-four.html\">here, <\/a> James B is talking about race and political correctness. <\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s had a series of posts, in fact, and you should read them all. Because he makes a lot of sense- the inability of people to say things like &#8220;the black guy over there&#8221; because that would be construed as &#8220;racist&#8221; is just fucking stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a fun little fact: Anyone who says &#8220;some of my best friends are black&#8221; ought to be shot right in the face with a squirt gun filled with juice squeezed from the underwear of fat venetian blind salesmen. <\/p>\n<p>You know what? i got no black friends. I just have friends. I have a lot of people I know who are black, and some people I occasionally correspond with-or blog with, like James, or Baldilocks, are black, but I don&#8217;t think of them as black people. I think of them as people. Likewise, I work with people of all race and religion and preference, and frankly, I don&#8217;t give two hoots in hell. <\/p>\n<p>I tend to take everyone at face value, and let them earn my respect or disdain on their own merits. The exceptions are these: If you act like an ass around women, or act like your shit doesn&#8217;t stink, you begin by earning my disrespect and you&#8217;ll have to dig hard to get out of that hole. If you are an overt or covert racist, same thing. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine disliking someone because of their color, creed, or normal sexual preference. By normal, I mean one of the basic seven: Hetero male, hetero female, bi male, bi female, gay male, gay female, asexual. Kids and animals- well, don&#8217;t let me find out, if you do that crap. <\/p>\n<p>The idea that I should curb my behavior because someone might be offended if i say &#8220;gay&#8221; or &#8220;black&#8221; or &#8220;Chinese&#8221; or whatever&#8230; like James B says, Bite Me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over here, James B is talking about race and political correctness. he&#8217;s had a series of posts, in fact, and you should read them all. Because he makes a lot of sense- the inability of people to say things like &#8220;the black guy over there&#8221; because that would be construed as &#8220;racist&#8221; is just fucking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-og-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}