{"id":2933,"date":"2009-08-16T23:29:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2009-08-16T23:29:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T07:29:20","slug":"horrible-new-word-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/horrible-new-word-for-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrible New Word For August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for images of midgets, I glanced at a Q &amp; A thing about which word is correct to use for Little People. Someone complained that the very question implied an &#8220;<em>othering<\/em>&#8221; of the group under discussion.&nbsp;\u00a0 Uh-oh!<\/p>\n<p>Today, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laprogressive.com\/2009\/08\/15\/racism-and-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a> about the obvious racism behind the right-wing attacks on health care reform, I read that:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;This noise is about race. It is about \u201cothering\u201d a President who is seen as a symbol of white dispossession: dispossession of white hegemony, white entitlement, white expectation, and white power, unquestioned and unchallenged from the darker skinned other.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, baby! I couldn&#8217;t agree more.&nbsp;\u00a0 But &#8220;othering&#8221; is going to be hard to beat for the title of most awful new buzzword. Ugh!<\/p>\n<p>Who would like to nominate another linguistic crime or misdemeanor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for images of midgets, I glanced at a Q &amp; A thing about which word is correct to use for Little People. Someone complained that the very question implied an &#8220;othering&#8221; of the group under discussion.&nbsp;\u00a0 Uh-oh! Today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/horrible-new-word-for-august\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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}}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[446,399,678],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-Lj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}