{"id":18624,"date":"2019-07-25T15:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18624"},"modified":"2019-07-25T18:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:16:21","slug":"im-tired-of-cretins-speaking-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18624","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m tired of cretins speaking for us&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;something has been bugging the hell out of me lately and I thought I&#8217;d bitch a little about it&#8230;it seems that every damn time that they interview a white guy on tv, they invariably talk to an idiot trump supporter who spews the hate, misogyny, racism and lies that are normal for that group of cretins&#8230;but, the problem there is that all of us white guys aren&#8217;t like that&#8230;but we never get interviewed because being a nice guy who is accepting of everyone and who thinks that trump and his cronies are systematically\u00a0 destroying this country is not news to them and doesn&#8217;t fit the narrative that has taken hold in almost every damn news organization in this country. I, for one, don&#8217;t want to be lumped in with the haters&#8230;but people think with stereotypes&#8230; sometimes good, sometimes bad and I&#8217;m afraid that with the constant air time that these folks get, it is almost a given that I&#8217;ll be tarred with that brush&#8230;the same one that says that all Muslims are terrorists, that all Latinos are here illegally, and all Jews are stingy&#8230;.not sure what to do about it other than continue to think and treat everyone with respect&#8230;and try to change people&#8217;s minds on person at a time&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;something has been bugging the hell out of me lately and I thought I&#8217;d bitch a little about it&#8230;it seems that every damn time that they interview a white guy on tv, they invariably talk to an idiot trump supporter who spews the hate, misogyny, racism and lies that are normal for that group of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=18624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m tired of cretins speaking for us&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2285],"class_list":["post-18624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18627,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions\/18627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}