{"id":32885,"date":"2012-12-20T01:56:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptogon.com\/?p=32885"},"modified":"2012-12-20T02:10:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T02:10:05","slug":"and-now-time-to-profile-white-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=32885","title":{"rendered":"And Now&#8230; &#8216;Time to Profile White Men?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/12\/17\/would_the_u_s_government_profile_white_men\/singleton\/\">Salon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Yesterday, during a cable news discussion of gun violence and the Newtown school shooting, I dared mention a taboo truism. During a conversation on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cUp With Chris Hayes,\u201d I said that because most of the mass shootings in America come at the hands of white men, there would likely be political opposition to initiatives that propose to use those facts to profile the demographic group to which these killers belong. I suggested that\u2019s the case because as opposed to people of color or, say, Muslims, white men as a subgroup are in such a privileged position in our society that they are the one group that our political system avoids demographically profiling or analytically aggregating in any real way. Indeed, unlike other demographic, white guys as a group are never thought to be an acceptable topic for any kind of critical discussion whatsoever, even when there is ample reason to open up such a discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Credit: TB<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Salon: Yesterday, during a cable news discussion of gun violence and the Newtown school shooting, I dared mention a taboo truism. During a conversation on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cUp With Chris Hayes,\u201d I said that because most of the mass shootings in America come at the hands of white men, there would likely be political opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,14,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictatorship","category-false-flag-operations","category-social-engineering","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}