{"id":135681,"date":"2017-12-16T14:53:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T21:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135681"},"modified":"2017-12-18T07:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:37:43","slug":"a-name-to-conjure-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/16\/a-name-to-conjure-by.html","title":{"rendered":"A Name to Conjure By"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently some folk — the white folk who make racist comments against people who aren’t white — have decided the current president’s name makes for a great racist taunt in and of itself, or an authority to invoke alongside other racist taunts.<\/p>\n

Can’t imagine how that<\/i> became a thing.<\/p>\n


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\n\u2018Trump, Trump, Trump!\u2019 How a President\u2019s Name Became a Racial Jeer<\/a><\/span>
\nPresident Trump\u2019s surname has become a racially charged taunt, or a braying assertion that the country is being taken back from forces that threaten it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently some folk — the white folk who make racist comments against people who aren’t white — have decided the current president’s name makes for a great racist taunt in and of itself, or an authority to invoke alongside other racist taunts. Can’t imagine how that became a thing. \u2018Trump, Trump, Trump!\u2019 How a President\u2019s … Continue reading “A Name to Conjure By”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,740,1071,24],"tags":[1276,1077],"class_list":["post-135681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-race-racism","category-trump","category-writing-and-language","tag-racism","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134680,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/13\/congress-tells-trump-denounce-nazis-et-al.html","url_meta":{"origin":135681,"position":0},"title":"Congress tells Trump to denounce Nazis, et al","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Sep-17 8:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, this is weird. 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