{"id":4874,"date":"2020-07-03T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2020-07-03T00:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:15:56","slug":"opinion-whose-statue-must-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/03\/opinion-whose-statue-must-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Whose Statue Must Fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;by revolutionary, I&#8217;m trying to draw at least a partial contrast between what I think Bernie Sanders was trying to do in his socialist campaigns for the presidency and what I suspect is going to come out of the current moment now. That distinction rests on my sense that since the 1960s and 1970s America has generated a kind of mass upper class who have combined a kind of rhetoric of pseudo-radicalism &#8212; the semi-hostile posture to the edifices of white patriarchy or something &#8212; with a socioeconomic system that constantly ratifies and shores up their own privilege, so when I use the word revolution, I&#8217;m suggesting that a real revolution would be something that dramatically threatened the class privilege of these folks&#8230;we&#8217;ve ended up crafting our upper class where the upper class is very comfortable speaking a certain kind of language of social justice so long as speaking that language sort of works with maintaining their own economic privileges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ross Douthat, from an interesting new episode of the podcast &#8220;The Argument&#8221;, with Jamelle Bouie and Michelle Goldberg (edited slightly to remove filler words)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/02\/opinion\/the-argument-protest-statue-revolution.html\">Opinion | Whose Statue Must Fall? &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;by revolutionary, I&#8217;m trying to draw at least a partial contrast between what I think Bernie Sanders was trying to do in his socialist campaigns for the presidency and what I suspect is going to come out of the current moment now. That distinction rests on my sense that since the 1960s and 1970s America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1gC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}