{"id":33,"date":"2007-07-09T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/09\/blind-privilege-written-around-the-time-of-virginia-tech-massacre\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:53:24","slug":"blind-privilege-written-around-the-time-of-virginia-tech-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2007\/07\/09\/blind-privilege-written-around-the-time-of-virginia-tech-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Privilege (written around the time of Virginia Tech Massacre)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/i_video\/main500251.shtml?id=2272366n\">On her CBS video-blog<\/a>, Katie Couric divides the world into two categories of people- Those who rinse their dishes before putting them in the dishwasher- and those who don&#8217;t. Excuse me Katie- that reductionist &amp; elitist metaphor illustrates that problem with today&#8217;s media commentators- blind privilege.<\/p>\n<p>As we grapple for meaning after the Virginia Tech massacre -the right-wing media &#8211; CNN&#8217;s sensationalist Glenn Beck &#8211; talks about morality with a Christian panel whose underlying message is as contentious as always- family values. In a culture that supports anti-gay discrimination, where\u00a0 &#8220;parents of faith&#8221; throw out and shun their gay, lesbian, bisexual, questioning and transgendered children in the name of morality-\u00a0 the problem isn&#8217;t Quentin Tarantino desensitizing us to violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On her CBS video-blog, Katie Couric divides the world into two categories of people- Those who rinse their dishes before putting them in the dishwasher- and those who don&#8217;t. Excuse me Katie- that reductionist &amp; elitist metaphor illustrates that problem with today&#8217;s media commentators- blind privilege. As we grapple for meaning after the Virginia Tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}