{"id":1130,"date":"2009-05-01T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2009-05-01T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:23:37","slug":"white-privelege-example-623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/05\/01\/white-privelege-example-623\/","title":{"rendered":"White Privelege Example #623"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to turn this into a white privilege blog, but&#8230; here&#8217;s Time&#8217;s Mark Halperin&#8217;s tease of his take on Obama&#8217;s potential Supreme Court nominations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/images\/halpern-court-340.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230;I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of scanning the blogosphere for poor word choices and labeling it as racist to enhance my own self concept.  But what I don&#8217;t get is why an otherwise intelligent guy jumps to a framing of the next Supreme Court nomination process as &#8220;another instance of screwing over the White guy.&#8221;   Seriously?  How many instances have we had?  You do know that of all 108 members of the Supreme Court, 104 have been White males?  <\/p>\n<p>So why is the 109th case going to be different?  It gets back to this strange presumption that black people are reflexively in-group oriented whereas White people have no such in-group loyalties and are completely free and clear of any race-based bias.  This clarity allows them to make dispassioned, merit-based decisions while the rest of use a pernicious &#8220;fuzzy logic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think you Sociology folks call this White Privilege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to turn this into a white privilege blog, but&#8230; here&#8217;s Time&#8217;s Mark Halperin&#8217;s tease of his take on Obama&#8217;s potential Supreme Court nominations. Ok&#8230;I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of scanning the blogosphere for poor word choices and labeling it as racist to enhance my own self concept. But what I don&#8217;t get is why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}