{"id":3961,"date":"2009-01-13T06:41:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2009-01-11T23:28:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T04:28:06","slug":"more-irony-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"More Irony?  Why Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson,from last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/say-they-arent-so\/2\/\">excellent piece on the ironies of 2008<\/a>, on the California gay &#8220;community&#8217;s&#8221; protests against Proposition 8.  Hanson notes that not only did  Hispanics and Blacks voted every bit as disproportionately against gay marriage as, say, Mormons and Evangelicals, but that in his (predominantly Hispanic) neighborhood people rarely use terms as polite as &#8220;gay&#8221; to describe gays.<\/p>\n<p>But then&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why then did not gay groups march through the streets of West Fresno, San Jose, or South Central LA, where such opponents are concentrated en masse and could be picketed, demonstrated against, and megaphoned for their sins?Was it because it is more dangerous calling Latinos in Fresno barrios homophobes than screaming the same at Mormons in the upscale temple parking lot? Or was that to do the former questioned the fable of uniformly aggrieved groups who share a variety of racial and sexual grievances, while to do the latter attested to the easy oppression we associate with white male Christians?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it <em>does <\/em>make sense &#8211; in facile, gutless kind of way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson,from last week&#8217;s excellent piece on the ironies of 2008, on the California gay &#8220;community&#8217;s&#8221; protests against Proposition 8. Hanson notes that not only did Hispanics and Blacks voted every bit as disproportionately against gay marriage as, say, Mormons and Evangelicals, but that in his (predominantly Hispanic) neighborhood people rarely use terms as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}