{"id":187206,"date":"2013-05-14T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/14\/what-took-you-so-long-2\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:20:00","slug":"what-took-you-so-long-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/14\/what-took-you-so-long-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Took You So Long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guy in charge of Hispanic outreach for the Republican National Committee in Florida has <a href=\"http:\/\/thefloridanation.com\/?p=555\">quit and joined the Democratic party<\/a>, saying that the bigotry is too much to bear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Friend,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Yes, I have changed my political affiliation to the Democratic Party.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It doesn\u2019t take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today. I have wondered before about the seemingly harsh undertones about immigrants and others. Look no further; a well-known organization recently confirms the intolerance of that which seems different or strange to them.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Studies geared towards making \u2013 human beings \u2013 viewed as less because of their immigrant status to outright unacceptable claims, are at the center of the immigration debate. Without going too deep on everything surrounding immigration today, the more resounding example this past week was reported by several media outlets.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A researcher included as part of a past dissertation his theory that \u201cthe totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ.\u201d The researcher reinforces these views by saying \u201cNo one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will repeat my question, &#8220;What took you so long?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/\">C&amp;L<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guy in charge of Hispanic outreach for the Republican National Committee in Florida has quit and joined the Democratic party, saying that the bigotry is too much to bear: Friend,Yes, I have changed my political affiliation to the Democratic Party.It doesn\u2019t take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187206"}],"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=187206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}