{"id":4539,"date":"2013-11-13T07:17:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2013-11-13T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T13:55:13","slug":"i-used-to-be-with-it-then-they-changed-what-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4539","title":{"rendered":"I used to be with it, then they changed what it was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yHBz3K0yKg\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the now completely inexplicable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/richard-cohen-christies-tea-party-problem\/2013\/11\/11\/a1ffaa9c-4b05-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html?hpid=z2\">Richard Cohen<\/a>, &#8220;liberal&#8221; columnist for the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, on non racism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s GOP is not racist<\/strong>, as\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2013\/11\/05\/reince-priebus-and-a-culture-of-hatred\/\" data-xslt=\"_http\">Harry Belafonte<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled \u00e2\u20ac\u201d about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. <strong>People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.<\/strong> (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but not all \u00e2\u20ac\u201d of America. To cultural conservatives, <strong>this doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like their country at all<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it. \u00c2\u00a0Cohen maintains that Republicans are not racist, they merely have to suppress the urge to vomit at the prospect of miscegenation, because, er that&#8217;s not what &#8220;their country looks like.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the now completely inexplicable Richard Cohen, &#8220;liberal&#8221; columnist for the Washington Post, on non racism: Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s GOP is not racist, as\u00c2\u00a0Harry Belafonte\u00c2\u00a0alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled \u00e2\u20ac\u201d about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I used to be with it, then they changed what it was<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1219,189,1981,1794,719],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-gop","tag-racism","tag-richard-cohen","tag-simple-contradictions","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}