{"id":73384,"date":"2015-09-02T18:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T02:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73384"},"modified":"2015-09-02T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T02:20:01","slug":"reality-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73384","title":{"rendered":"Reality Is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/why-is-a-willie-horton-ad-a-bad-thing\">From VDARE<\/a>: Donald Trump has the usual suspects in shrieking hysterics because of one of his latest Instagram ads.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"4\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:474px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/7DdvbEmhWG\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/7DdvbEmhWG\/', 'This is no &#034;act of love&#034; as Jeb Bush said&#8230;']);\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_top\">This is no &#34;act of love&#34; as Jeb Bush said&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-08-31T16:16:53+00:00\">Aug 31, 2015 at 9:16am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The ad is being compared to the &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221; ad famously run by Jeb&#8217;s father George H.W. Bush in his campaign against Michael Dukakis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Io9KMSSEZ0Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might not remember the Dukakis Administration. That&#8217;s because it didn&#8217;t happen. George H.W. Bush easily defeated Dukakis, winning 40 states and a majority in the popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>However, somehow, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/the-fulford-file-by-james-fulford-22\"> sober and factual &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221; ad <\/a>is invariably described as &#8220;infamous,&#8221; and Trump&#8217;s ad about illegal immigrant criminals (well, illegal immigrants who committed <em>more <\/em>than one crime) is also being described as offensive [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/immigration\/2015\/08\/31\/3697048\/donald-trump-willie-horton-style-attack-ad-jeb-bush\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/immigration\/2015\/08\/31\/3697048\/donald-trump-willie-horton-style-attack-ad-jeb-bush\/', 'Donald Trump Releases Fearmongering Willie Horton-Style Ad About Undocumented Immigrants']);\" >Donald Trump Releases Fearmongering Willie Horton-Style Ad About Undocumented Immigrants<\/a>, <\/em>by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, <em>ThinkProgress, <\/em>August 31, 2015]<\/p>\n<p>The Left&#8217;s approach towards the Trump campaign is much the same as the Beltway Right&#8217;s. It&#8217;s simply concern trolling. Ads like these are seen as bad not because they are ineffective, but because they are <em>too <\/em>effective, and might get the peasants riled up. Pointing out that illegal immigrants are committing crimes is a hatefact. It&#8217;s true, but you aren&#8217;t supposed to <em>say it. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From VDARE: Donald Trump has the usual suspects in shrieking hysterics because of one of his latest Instagram ads. This is no &#34;act of love&#34; as Jeb Bush said&#8230; A video posted by Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on Aug 31, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73384\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73384","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=73384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73385,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73384\/revisions\/73385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}