{"id":180177,"date":"2017-07-01T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/01\/i-know-that-stereotypes-are-bad-but\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:48:00","slug":"i-know-that-stereotypes-are-bad-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/01\/i-know-that-stereotypes-are-bad-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know That Stereotypes Are Bad, but \u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ubGmBoJ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ubGmBoJ.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"160\" \/><\/a>I was just listening to NPR, and they were talking about the Canada Day celebrations, which is a big deal because this is the sesquicentennial (150<sup>th<\/sup> year) since the founding of the Canadian Confederation.<\/p>\n<p>There was a mention of security precautions being taken, and mention was made of an, &#8220;Elite Canadian Anti-terrorism Unit,&#8221; (This would probably be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joint_Task_Force_2\">JTF2<\/a>) being on alert as a precaution.  (No mention of any specific threats.)<\/p>\n<p>I know that this is rank stereotyping, but the image that came into my head was of a bunch of guys in cardigans apologizing profusely.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly an inaccurate characterization of Canadian soldiers in general, but the image remains in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Does this make me a bad person?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just listening to NPR, and they were talking about the Canada Day celebrations, which is a big deal because this is the sesquicentennial (150th year) since the founding of the Canadian Confederation. There was a mention of security precautions being taken, and mention was made of an, &#8220;Elite Canadian Anti-terrorism Unit,&#8221; (This would &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":[506,475],"class_list":["post-180177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180177"}],"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=180177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}