{"id":115144,"date":"2017-06-16T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115144"},"modified":"2017-06-16T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:18:17","slug":"yo-theah-muh-goy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115144","title":{"rendered":"‘Yo theah, muh Goy!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Derbyshire writes<\/a>: A few days ago in conversation with a friend I used the word "Goy" facetiously. My friend, who is Jewish, took mild objection. "We don’t really use that word," he said. "It’s kind of low-class and not very polite."<\/p>\n

I honestly did not know this. (Neither, apparently, does Steven Pinker<\/a>.) Now that I know, do I care? No. I refuse to join the offense-taking community.<\/p>\n

My friend then told me that some of the naughtier spirits on the Alt-Right have taken to referring themselves as Goy or Goyim — owning the insult<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, I replied, it’s like blacks addressing each other as "Nigga." He said yes, he guessed it was the same idea.<\/p>\n

Here came my mischievous thought. The next time I meet Richard Spencer, I shall greet him with, "Yo theah, muh Goy!" and record his reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Derbyshire writes: A few days ago in conversation with a friend I used the word "Goy" facetiously. My friend, who is Jewish, took mild objection. "We don’t really use that word," he said. "It’s kind of low-class and not … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115146,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115144\/revisions\/115146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}