{"id":198228,"date":"2007-11-30T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/30\/ward-connerlys-america-its-france\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T05:08:00","slug":"ward-connerlys-america-its-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/30\/ward-connerlys-america-its-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward Connerly&#8217;s America: It&#8217;s France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-France-Violence.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">riots once again in France<\/a>.  This is a product of a number of things, but one of them is racism, and the unenforceable nature of anti-discrimination laws in France.<\/p>\n<p>France has a policy that no official records are kept regarding racial or ethnic origin by the government.  The idea is that everyone is French, not hyphenated French.<\/p>\n<p>Ward Connerly, a Californian Uncle Tom who has become wealthy by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">being<\/span> an uncle Tom, and from being the front man for faux minority contracting<sup>*<\/sup>, has been pushing the removal or racial and ethnic status from California state records for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">years<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>You see the natural consequences of such actions in France: a permanent underclass living in slums who are destined never to be hired by bigots, because these bigots will never be caught.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Cognitive dissonance: Required for the mental illness known as &#8220;Republicanism&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are having riots once again in France. This is a product of a number of things, but one of them is racism, and the unenforceable nature of anti-discrimination laws in France. France has a policy that no official records are kept regarding racial or ethnic origin by the government. The idea is that everyone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,984,978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-europe","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198228"}],"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=198228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}