{"id":21880,"date":"2010-03-22T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=21880"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:44:30","slug":"the-n-word-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/22\/the-n-word-on-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"The N-Word on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSome have argued that the vitriolic nature of the opposition to health care reform among the political right comes not from a concern about money per se, but a concern that the money of good, hard-working, white Americans will be transferred to the not-so-good, lazy, non-white Americans. That is, that this is isn’t about money, it’s about color.<\/p>\n

The fact that conservative anti-health care reform activists hurled the n-word at Black lawmakers on Saturday<\/a> adds heft to that argument, as does the justification of the use of that word by Representative Devin Dunes<\/a> (Republican – California) as understandable given Leftist “totalitarianism”:<\/p>\n

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Via Matthew Yglesias<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some have argued that the vitriolic nature of the opposition to health care reform among the political right comes not from a concern about money per se, but a concern that the money of good, hard-working, white Americans will be transferred to the not-so-good, lazy, non-white Americans. That is, that this is isn’t about money, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,23384,36,252,85,283,285],"class_list":["post-21880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-economics","tag-healthmedicine","tag-politics","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21880"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60367,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21880\/revisions\/60367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}