{"id":1447,"date":"2009-04-28T06:09:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/evan-coyne-maloney\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T17:03:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:03:43","slug":"evan-coyne-maloney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/evan-coyne-maloney\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Coyne Maloney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brain-terminal.com\/posts\/2009\/04\/27\/pc-hierarchy-battle#1505\">Naming the Swine Flu: a Battle of P.C. Hierarchy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">27 April 2009 @ 8:44PM<\/p>\n<p>We now have brewing an epic battle that will determine the relative importance of three different groups: Jews, Muslims and Mexicans.<\/p>\n<p>You see, in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/_bt_-notes-from-the-silent.pdf\" title=\"the Hierarchy of Multiculturalism\">the Hierarchy of Multiculturalism<\/a>, when the interests of different identity groups conflict, the arbiters of political correctness must decide which group has the most <em>victim cred<\/em>. That\u2019s how such disputes are settled: to the victim go the spoils.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s battle involves the name of the influenza virus that\u2019s currently causing worldwide panic. \u201cSwine flu.\u201d Say it with me: <em>swine flu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel a little dirty? No? <em>How insensitive of you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cswine flu\u201d is apparently offensive to both Muslims <em>and<\/em> Jews, a pretty impressive bank-shot of an insult if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>So to alleviate this grave injustice of nomenclature, an Israeli health official proposes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/swine-flu-name-offensive.pdf\" title=\"renaming the virus\">renaming the virus<\/a> \u201cMexican flu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now you see the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Try to use your knowledge of multiculturalism and political correctness to determine how this conflict gets resolved. Which identity group wins? And why?<\/p>\n<p>Be careful, though! Improper thinking may result in being labeled a xenophobe, an anti-Semite, a racist, an Islamophobe, or some combination thereof.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this decision is fraught with peril\u2014your views may mark you as a potential domestic terrorist\u2014but this mental exercise will prepare you well for the New Era of Hope &amp; Change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naming the Swine Flu: a Battle of P.C. Hierarchy 27 April 2009 @ 8:44PM We now have brewing an epic battle that will determine the relative importance of three different groups: Jews, Muslims and Mexicans. You see, in\u00a0the Hierarchy of Multiculturalism, when the interests of different identity groups conflict, the arbiters of political correctness must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-pc","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}