{"id":37266,"date":"2013-07-17T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37266"},"modified":"2013-07-13T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T00:03:46","slug":"targeted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37266","title":{"rendered":"Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails in re the Target memo flap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The memo is offensive? Why? they\u2019re training people NOT to use stereotypes like these.<\/p>\n<p>Complaining about this is like complaining about the Texaco exec who repeated what the diversity trainer said about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/11\/11\/business\/investigation-finds-no-evidence-of-slur-on-texaco-tapes.html\">Black jelly beans.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even if the stereotypes in the memo were offensive, is the memo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jul\/10\/target-sorry-memo-referring-mexicans-lower-educati\/\">CORRECT<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Nobody cares about that, anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only <em>political <\/em>correctness really matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails in re the Target memo flap: The memo is offensive? Why? they\u2019re training people NOT to use stereotypes like these. Complaining about this is like complaining about the Texaco exec who repeated what the diversity trainer said about Black jelly beans. Even if the stereotypes in the memo were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37275,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37266\/revisions\/37275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}