{"id":54123,"date":"2015-07-03T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54123"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:36:19","slug":"ryan-winkler-should-thank-george-takei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54123","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Winkler Should Thank George Takei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Winkler is no longer the most ineptly, tone-deafly racist commentator in recent American history.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the odd chuckle as George &#8220;Mr. Sulu&#8221; Takei has oozed back into a wry, giggly mainstream prominence. \u00a0He can be a funny guy. \u00a0And he&#8217;s got an interesting story; growing up in an internment camp, building a career in Hollywood at a time when an Asian couldn&#8217;t get a break, yadda yadda.<\/p>\n<p>But someone&#8217;s gotta slap him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a nasty, racist rant captured by a Fox affiliate in Arizona, former Star Trek actor-turned-gay rights activist George Takei lashed out at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, calling him a \u201cclown in black face.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here, a man who became famous sitting on a TV set pushing fake buttons and saying &#8220;Warp Factor Five, Aye-Aye&#8221; and running a snarky but occasionally hilarious Facebook account, gaysplains to\u00a0one of America&#8217;s most accomplished jurists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/137086\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;not only using terms that are groaning with racist baggage, but also legally full of Roddenberry dust. \u00a0Thomas is, unfortunately for Takei, correct. \u00a0The Obergefell decision was, like Roe V. Wade, conjuring up law from nothing &#8211; or, worse than nothing, pure emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Back to snarking on Facebook, George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Winkler is no longer the most ineptly, tone-deafly racist commentator in recent American history. I&#8217;ve had the odd chuckle as George &#8220;Mr. Sulu&#8221; Takei has oozed back into a wry, giggly mainstream prominence. \u00a0He can be a funny guy. \u00a0And he&#8217;s got an interesting story; growing up in an internment camp, building a career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,24,79],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-54123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gay","category-culture-war","category-slander-files","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54123","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=54123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54125,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54123\/revisions\/54125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}