{"id":44937,"date":"2012-02-13T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44937"},"modified":"2012-02-11T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T00:36:48","slug":"christian-privilege-santorums-mis-effort-to-woo-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/13\/christian-privilege-santorums-mis-effort-to-woo-the-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Privilege: Santorum Tries to Woo the Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/what-were-they-thinking.html\" target=\"_blank\">Montclair SocioBlog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Being in the dominant majority allows you that comfort of not thinking.\u00a0 People in that majority can assume that everyone shares their views, ideas, and even characteristics, and much of the time, they\u2019ll be right.\u00a0 \u201cFlesh colored\u201d in the U.S.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/08\/white-privilege\/\">sometimes even today<\/a>, means the color of white people\u2019s flesh.<\/p>\n<p>White is the default race, the American race.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to ignore that African Americans might not see those Band-Aids as flesh colored.\u00a0 Similarly, Christianity is the default religion, and those who are in the majority can make those same flesh-colored assumptions.\u00a0 Justice Scalia, for example, seemed unable to understand that the Jewish families of Jews killed in war might not feel \u201chonored\u201d by a cross placed on the grave of their son or daughter. (My post on this is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/montclairsoci.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/christian-is-not-religion-and-jews-have.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The latest example:\u00a0 this Hannukah card sent in South Carolina, presumably to Jews, by Rick Santorum\u2019s local team.\u00a0 First tweeted by political reporter Hunter Walker, it\u2019s rapidly making the rounds of the Internet.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MxF6RZ60968\/TzUOPgsLkuI\/AAAAAAAAC74\/snsuNm0F-aA\/s1600\/00+Satorum+Hannukah.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MxF6RZ60968\/TzUOPgsLkuI\/AAAAAAAAC74\/snsuNm0F-aA\/s1600\/00+Satorum+Hannukah.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>The Santorum team knew that Jews celebrate Hannukah.\u00a0 But apparently they either did not know or did not remember that the New Testament is not part of Judaism and that Jews do not believe in the divinity of Jesus.\u00a0 So those words from John &#8212; that those who follow Jesus \u201cwill have the light of life\u201d &#8212; probably did not convey the intended effect of holiday warmth.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted at Montclair SocioBlog. Being in the dominant majority allows you that comfort of not thinking.\u00a0 People in that majority can assume that everyone shares their views, ideas, and even characteristics, and much of the time, they\u2019ll be right.\u00a0 \u201cFlesh colored\u201d in the U.S.,\u00a0sometimes even today, means the color of white people\u2019s flesh. White is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,85,42],"class_list":["post-44937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-politics","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937","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\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44937"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44945,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937\/revisions\/44945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}