{"id":12778,"date":"2012-01-24T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12778"},"modified":"2012-01-24T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:54:15","slug":"newt-the-anti-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12778\/newt-the-anti-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt the Anti-Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At The American Spectator, <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/gingrich-is-no-racist#comments\" target=\"_blank\">I defend Newt Gingrich<\/a> from scurrilous leftist charges that he is appealing to racist sentiments. Yet even though it is already a long post (please do read it), there is more to be said.<\/p>\n<p>It is this: Have you ever noticed how seldom it is that conservatives ever actually say anything connecting food stamps or welfare with blacks &#8212; but how often it is that any time liberals hear those words, <em>they<\/em> immediately think that it is blacks who are being referred to?<\/p>\n<p>At best, this is liberal paternalism in action. Worse, it could be the same thing that motivates racial preferences and other, similar liberal nostrums: namely, the assumption by the left that black Americans can&#8217;t be expected to be successes <em>unless<\/em> government helps them. It is an assumption that seems only to be applied to black people. It is a flat-out wrong assumption. But it almost always comes from the left, not the right.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, there is no racial component to food stamps. It is shameful to think there is. The shame should be borne by those who do: namely, American liberals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The American Spectator, I defend Newt Gingrich from scurrilous leftist charges that he is appealing to racist sentiments. Yet even though it is already a long post (please do read it), there is more to be said. It is this: Have you ever noticed how seldom it is that conservatives ever actually say anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3106,3302,1996],"class_list":["post-12778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-gingrich","tag-paternalism","tag-racist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12787,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12778\/revisions\/12787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}