{"id":9959,"date":"2015-11-17T21:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2015-11-17T21:44:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:44:42","slug":"new-heights-in-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/new-heights-in-wishful-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"New Heights in Wishful Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook friend posted this today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-17-at-1.11.41-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9960\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-17-at-1.11.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-11-17 at 1.11.41 PM\" width=\"495\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-17-at-1.11.41-PM.png 495w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-17-at-1.11.41-PM-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This person isn&#8217;t particularly political &#8211; a well-intentioned but corny meme isn&#8217;t really the stuff of those more consumed by politics, in my experience &#8211; but their taken-for-granted progressivism was kicked into gear following Friday&#8217;s Paris attacks by declared Islamists.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The people behind these attacks weren&#8217;t Muslims.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Funny, white progressives are typically fearful of being labeled a &#8220;problematic ally,&#8221; i.e. a white person who purports to speak on behalf of minorities without their consent to or approval of the dialogue. We see here the limits of that fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook friend posted this today: This person isn&#8217;t particularly political &#8211; a well-intentioned but corny meme isn&#8217;t really the stuff of those more consumed by politics, in my experience &#8211; but their taken-for-granted progressivism was kicked into gear following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/new-heights-in-wishful-thinking\/\">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":[15,711],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959"}],"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=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}