{"id":177608,"date":"2019-08-05T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/05\/what-the-f-is-wrong-with-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T23:21:00","slug":"what-the-f-is-wrong-with-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/05\/what-the-f-is-wrong-with-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"What the F%$# is Wrong with the New York Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i>, and by that I mean their editorial board, just published an editorial, which among other things, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/04\/opinion\/mass-shootings-domestic-terrorism.html\">appeals to the conscience of the good Nazis and white supremacists out there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is unbelievably stupid.&nbsp; There are no good Nazis, but they ask for their goodwill anyway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Those <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">who sympathize with the white nationalist ideology but who deplore the violence<\/span><\/b> should work closely with law enforcement to see that fellow travelers who may be prone to violence do not have access to firearms like semiautomatic assault-style weapons that are massively destructive.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>There are no white supremacists who eschew violence.<\/p>\n<p>Violence is inextricable from white supremacist and Nazi ideology.<\/p>\n<p>You can enforce neither without violence and the threat of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it:&nbsp; Without lynchings and shooting, Jim Crow would never have had any force.<\/p>\n<p>Asking for a few good Nazis to do their civic duty is dangerously misguided.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2019\/08\/calling-all-good-nazis.html\">Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times, and by that I mean their editorial board, just published an editorial, which among other things, appeals to the conscience of the good Nazis and white supremacists out there. This is unbelievably stupid.&nbsp; There are no good Nazis, but they ask for their goodwill anyway: Those who sympathize with the white &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,490,398,406,403],"class_list":["post-177608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-hack-journalism","tag-racism","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}