{"id":131593,"date":"2016-09-21T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/the-moral-imperative-of-skittles.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T07:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:52:58","slug":"the-moral-imperative-of-skittles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/the-moral-imperative-of-skittles.html","title":{"rendered":"The Moral Imperative of Skittles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, really. The Skittles argument used by Trump, Jr., is not only riddled with bad math, but it misses the point of what &#8212; of <i>who<\/i> &#8212; those Skittles are, and what they face if they are left in the bowl.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Kee Hinckley<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <b>real<\/b> Skittles question is &quot;Is my life more important than that of thousands of refugees?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re so terrified of the world that you&#39;d condemn others to poverty, war, and death rather than take any risks. By all means, go lock yourself in your house with your guns. I&#39;ll be out on the street greeting our new neighbors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/117903011098040166012\/albums\/6332720611673689905\/6332720615491151506'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-8o9zU9PMlN8\/V-JX2PwkppI\/AAAAAAABuyk\/HdEV6L1B0ogeGBdk11DsPp7305JCoVX-gCJoC\/1ece7a66-88b2-4128-8790-8f6be8c7e8ab?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/g7xiVCLVgYD'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really. The Skittles argument used by Trump, Jr., is not only riddled with bad math, but it misses the point of what &#8212; of who &#8212; those Skittles are, and what they face if they are left in the bowl. Originally shared by +Kee Hinckley: The real Skittles question is &quot;Is my life more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/the-moral-imperative-of-skittles.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Moral Imperative of Skittles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1ece7a66-88b2-4128-8790-8f6be8c7e8abimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131580,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/skittles-are-candy-refugees-are-people.html","url_meta":{"origin":131593,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Skittles are candy. 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