{"id":9849,"date":"2015-08-02T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9849"},"modified":"2016-05-03T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:32:09","slug":"antiracism-our-flawed-new-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/antiracism-our-flawed-new-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Antiracism: Our Flawed New Religion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of John McWhorter&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/27\/antiracism-our-flawed-new-religion.html\">piece<\/a> at The Daily Beast. He looks at the rhetoric of the Blacks Lives Matter movement and its acolytes and finds all the trappings of a new and only nominally secular religion. It&#8217;s essentially liturgy, as he <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/videos\/36141?in=31:16&amp;out=36:29\">explained<\/a> in a recent Bloggingheads convo.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/author\/sarahperry\/\">Sarah Perry<\/a> and her musings on the sacralization of politics will see similar themes at work in McWhorter&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1419154264_10526028_614516961986109_9185465112508217362_n1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9853\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1419154264_10526028_614516961986109_9185465112508217362_n1.jpg\" alt=\"1419154264_10526028_614516961986109_9185465112508217362_n\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1419154264_10526028_614516961986109_9185465112508217362_n1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1419154264_10526028_614516961986109_9185465112508217362_n1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of John McWhorter&#8217;s excellent piece at The Daily Beast. He looks at the rhetoric of the Blacks Lives Matter movement and its acolytes and finds all the trappings of a new and only nominally secular religion. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/antiracism-our-flawed-new-religion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[1123,1122,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10086,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions\/10086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}