{"id":4637,"date":"2014-02-04T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2014-02-04T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:02:36","slug":"in-perfect-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"In perfect harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/content.sportslogos.net\/logos\/7\/168\/full\/1063.gif\" width=\"302\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to some recent reports, Glenn Beck, self-described super troll, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/shorter-glenn-beck-media-matters-was-right-abou\/197728\">has expressed remorse<\/a> over the Godwin-themed clown show that enriched him. \u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t believe him. \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/2014\/02\/03\/watch-best-and-worst-super-bowl-commercials\/\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> his reaction to the multilingual and multicultural Coca-Cola ad during last Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So somebody tweeted last night and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGlenn, what did you think of the Coke ad?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 And I said, <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhy did you need that to divide us politically?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all this ad is,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong> Glenn said. <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in your face, and if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like it, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re offended by it, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a racist. If you do like it, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re for immigration. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re for progress. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all this is: To divide people<\/strong>. Remember when Coke used to do the thing on the top and they would all hold hands? Now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, have a Coke and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll divide you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What kind of divisions are we talking about? \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s one from a <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/coca-cola-super-bowl-ad-america-the-beautiful-conservatives-boycott\">Fox News type<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So was Coca-Cola saying America is beautiful because new immigrants don&#8217;t learn to speak English?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/coca-cola-super-bowl-ad-inspires-racist-twitter-backlash\/\">And there are more, of course<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0The logic of Beck&#8217;s argument is a marvel, however. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m not sure how to reconstruct it, but here goes: People disagree about stuff, among this stuff is immigration, if I mention something related to immigration, and drive racists into a racist frenzy, then I&#8217;m dividing us by reminding others of their racism. \u00c2\u00a0So I&#8217;m the real racist, or something.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, however, I want to be divided from people who cannot stomach the very sound of Spanish (or\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=10142\">English, Keres Pueblo, Tagalog, Hindi, Senegalese French, or Hebrew<\/a>) in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to some recent reports, Glenn Beck, self-described super troll, has expressed remorse over the Godwin-themed clown show that enriched him. \u00c2\u00a0I don&#8217;t believe him. \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s his reaction to the multilingual and multicultural Coca-Cola ad during last Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So somebody tweeted last night and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGlenn, what did you think of the Coke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In perfect harmony<\/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":[1848,694,1847,1849,1846],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-coca-cola-america-the-beautiful","tag-glenn-beck","tag-godwin","tag-super-bowl","tag-todd-starnes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}