{"id":68943,"date":"2015-05-26T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68943"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:28:19","slug":"wp-indian-americans-dominate-the-national-spelling-bee-why-should-they-take-abuse-on-social-media-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68943","title":{"rendered":"WP: Indian Americans dominate the National Spelling Bee. Why should they take abuse on social media for it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How exactly should white Americans react to being displaced? What are socially appropriate ways that they can express their disdain at being overwhelmed and replaced by brown people? <\/p>\n<p>I only want to see white Americans winning anything significant in America or Australia or England or any of our historic homelands. I want to see Jews winning Jewish contests. I want to see my group triumph. I root for my group. I think my reaction is universal. I don&#8217;t expect that India would react with glee to white or black people winning awards in that country. I expect the Japanese to root first for Japanese and for Mexicans to root first for Mexicans. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/indian-americans-dominate-national-spelling-bee-then-slurred-on-internet\/2015\/05\/25\/8ec01098-f414-11e4-bcc4-e8141e5eb0c9_story.html?hpid=z1\">WP<\/a>: Kimble and other bee organizers were appalled by the reaction to last year\u2019s contest, when Sriram, then 14, and his co-winner Ansun, then 13, were greeted with a barrage of racist comments on Facebook and Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids in the spelling bee should only be AMERICAN\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo American sounding names who won the spelling B. #sad#fail\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need an american to win this spelling bee #tiredofindians\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How exactly should white Americans react to being displaced? What are socially appropriate ways that they can express their disdain at being overwhelmed and replaced by brown people? I only want to see white Americans winning anything significant in America &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68943","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=68943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68946,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68943\/revisions\/68946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}