{"id":179106,"date":"2018-05-15T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/15\/headline-of-the-day-57\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T00:57:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/15\/headline-of-the-day-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 140%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Conservatives Will Never Get the Respect They Crave. They Don\u2019t Deserve It<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2018\/04\/28\/conservatives-will-never-get-the-respect-they-crave-they-dont-deserve-it\/\">David Atkins<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He says something that needs to be said: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But dig deeper and it\u2019s the sort of deplorable stuff that no one involved in the creation of culture would ever want to countenance: that women should serve as obedient reproductive vessels; that white men are biologically and culturally superior to others; that the ability of corporate executives to get rich from polluting air and exploiting workers is a greater freedom than that of communities not to be poisoned and abused; that it\u2019s the inherent right of powerful countries to bomb less powerful ones and steal their resources; that being rich is a sign of divine favor, and the poor deserve their plight; and so on.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.&nbsp; These ideas do not deserve respect, and they haven&#8217;t since <a href=\"http:\/\/stevegilliard.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/speak-like-conservative.html\">William F. Buckley endorsed a segregated south 60 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives Will Never Get the Respect They Crave. They Don\u2019t Deserve It \u2014David Atkins He says something that needs to be said: But dig deeper and it\u2019s the sort of deplorable stuff that no one involved in the creation of culture would ever want to countenance: that women should serve as obedient reproductive vessels; that &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":[416,364,504,374,398,403],"class_list":["post-179106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-culture","tag-evil","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179106"}],"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=179106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}