{"id":45574,"date":"2015-07-18T23:31:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45574"},"modified":"2015-07-18T23:31:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T23:31:39","slug":"a-symmetry-of-hatreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45574","title":{"rendered":"A symmetry of hatreds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; in which a couple hundred people mimic our society at large ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports of some people shouting &#8220;white power!&#8221; while others were shouting &#8220;black power!&#8221; at rival protests outside the South Carolina State House today &#8212; but that just means that opposing views were expressed. The report that really caught my attention was this one, from <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/248434-kkk-black-activists-face-off-at-dueling-confederate-flag\">The Hill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The media outlet\u2019s coverage documented protesters from both rallies shouting obscenities, racial slurs and slogans at one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not so much the simple symmetry of opposing slogans that troubles me, it&#8217;s the symmetry of obscenities and racial slurs that&#8217;s so depressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; in which a couple hundred people mimic our society at large ] . There were reports of some people shouting &#8220;white power!&#8221; while others were shouting &#8220;black power!&#8221; at rival protests outside the South Carolina State House today &#8212; but that just means that opposing views were expressed. The report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,526,859,383,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-charles-cameron","category-form","category-symmetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45579,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions\/45579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}