{"id":3904,"date":"2008-11-02T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:38:17","slug":"portraying-radical-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/02\/portraying-radical-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraying \u201cRadical Groups&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada is a battleground state, and the state elections have gotten nasty (on both sides); the mailers I get every day don&#8217;t even pretend to be about issues any more, they&#8217;re just attack ads. I got this one, against a Democratic candidate, a couple of days ago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/sc0055f01a.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3905 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/sc0055f01a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought the photo they chose to illustrate &#8220;radical groups&#8221; was interesting. There were no specifics about what type of &#8220;radical&#8221; groups, or what they are radical about. To me, this image seemed like it was supposed to bring up the threat of radical (angry) feminists, but I don&#8217;t know if that was the specific type of radical this was meant to evoke or if that&#8217;s just what it makes me think of.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it might be useful for a discussion of political discourses (for instance, how groups selectively use words like &#8220;radical,&#8221; &#8220;progressive,&#8221; &#8220;traditional,&#8221; &#8220;regressive,&#8221; and so on to depict change as either good or threatening), as well as what types of political agendas even appearances have become associated with &#8220;radical&#8221; politics (for instance, a woman wearing multiple necklaces and dreadlocks symbolizes radicalism).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada is a battleground state, and the state elections have gotten nasty (on both sides); the mailers I get every day don&#8217;t even pretend to be about issues any more, they&#8217;re just attack ads. I got this one, against a Democratic candidate, a couple of days ago: I thought the photo they chose to illustrate [&hellip;]<\/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":[12508,251,23384,55,2095,85,238,23622],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-hair","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-politics","tag-election-2008","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","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=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29862,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions\/29862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}