{"id":65981,"date":"2015-02-26T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=65981"},"modified":"2015-02-25T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T01:22:52","slug":"jay-smooth-on-the-idea-of-the-good-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/02\/26\/jay-smooth-on-the-idea-of-the-good-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Smooth on the Idea of the &#8220;Good Person&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First, let me say that I&#8217;m tired of all of this talk about &#8216;snubs,'&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/race\/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-2015-773902\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> an anonymous member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And as far as the accusations about the Academy being racist? Yes, most members are white males, but they are not the cast of <em>Deliverance<\/em> \u2014 they had to get into the Academy to begin with, so they&#8217;re not cretinous, snaggletoothed hillbillies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the video below, Jay Smooth takes on the idea that only &#8220;hillbillies&#8221; are racist and asks about the idea of the &#8220;good person&#8221; and what it actually takes to be one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E7c9CIHm09M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First, let me say that I&#8217;m tired of all of this talk about &#8216;snubs,&#8217;&#8221; said an anonymous member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And continued: And as far as the accusations about the Academy being racist? Yes, most members are white males, but they are not the cast of Deliverance \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":65983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,329,343,283,285,20063],"class_list":["post-65981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-emotion","tag-tvmovies","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/02\/2-12.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65981","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=65981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65982,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65981\/revisions\/65982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}