{"id":24129,"date":"2010-05-27T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24129"},"modified":"2012-01-25T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:06:52","slug":"radio-contest-offers-a-weekend-in-phoenix-chasing-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/27\/radio-contest-offers-a-weekend-in-phoenix-chasing-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Contest Offers a Weekend in Phoenix “Chasing Aliens”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh my. In\u00e9s V. just let us know about a contest on WTVN<\/a>, a conservative talk radio station in Ohio (reader Scapino clarifies that the conservative tone is mostly due to syndication of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, not really the local DJs). Just…see for yourself:<\/p>\n

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In\u00e9s says,<\/p>\n

This campaign is a response to Columbus mayor Michael Coleman who boycotted AZ by banning all city-funded travel<\/a> after SB1070, and the mayor is depicted as a holder of a green card [that’s him shown on the ID card].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s an astounding example of dehumanizing undocumented immigrants — being a proud American is linked to “illegals” (a term that somehow seems more stigmatizing than terms like “illegal immigrants” or “illegal aliens,” even — a linguistic erasure of personhood altogether) being scared, presumably of all the proud Americans they encounter, and the lucky winner gets to go “spend a weekend chasing aliens”. It’s like you’re getting to go on a safari.<\/p>\n

Groups in Columbus have organized a response and will be delivering letters to the station this afternoon, before the contest ends, in protest.<\/p>\n

I’d add more commentary, but what can you really say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh my. In\u00e9s V. just let us know about a contest on WTVN, a conservative talk radio station in Ohio (reader Scapino clarifies that the conservative tone is mostly due to syndication of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, not really the local DJs). Just…see for yourself: In\u00e9s says, This campaign is a response to Columbus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,23384,2125,276,283,285,1754],"class_list":["post-24129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-nationalismpatriotism","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-latinos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24129"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44561,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions\/44561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}