{"id":3560,"date":"2007-01-26T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2017-12-07T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:55:28","slug":"i-forgot-which-is-bad-perpetuating-or-mocking-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/26\/i-forgot-which-is-bad-perpetuating-or-mocking-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"I Forgot, Which Is Bad, Perpetuating Or Mocking Stereotypes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20070125\/D8MS8LP00.html\" target=\"_new\">MLK Party Causes Uproar on Texas Campus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like there is no excuse for this type of ignorance,&#8221; said Donald Ray Elder, president of the Stephenville school&#8217;s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So mocking stereotypes is as offensive and ignorant as actually believing them?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, who cares, let&#8217;s call the attorneys.  Certainly having a sense of humor should be worth some punitive damages to those who do not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLK Party Causes Uproar on Texas Campus: Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel. &#8220;I feel like there is no excuse for this type of ignorance,&#8221; said Donald Ray Elder, president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18301,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/18301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}