{"id":6828,"date":"2011-01-14T00:38:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2011-01-14T00:38:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:38:42","slug":"blood-libel-and-palinschmerz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/blood-libel-and-palinschmerz\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Libel and Palinschmerz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lalo-alcaraz-cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6829\" title=\"lalo alcaraz cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lalo-alcaraz-cartoon.jpg?resize=555%2C410\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lalo-alcaraz-cartoon.jpg?w=555&amp;ssl=1 555w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lalo-alcaraz-cartoon.jpg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words are important.&nbsp;\u00a0 Language enables us to communicate ideas.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t throw out &#8220;blood libel&#8221; and expect to get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Mrs. Palin intended to cause a commotion when she used the term in her idiotically self-serving speech about the shootings in Arizona. Beyond its historical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/doc\/1O101-Bloodlibel.html\" target=\"_blank\">meaning<\/a>, I figured it had to be some sort of right-wing code word.&nbsp;\u00a0 In a thorough discussion of the term at wordiq.com, I learned that:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The use of blood libel has been adopted by certain groups to promote their agendas, particularly on <em>the far right of the political spectrum<\/em>. In the United States, this is especially noticeable in the most extreme fringes of the anti-abortion movement, which has produced a litany of charges against doctors performing the procedure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ha!<\/p>\n<p>Searching my vocabulary for words that describe my moral and physical disgust, I find Mrs. Palin has presented a real challenge. How can I convey how much I hate her?! Is there a word in some other language that would do the job? If you know any, please share them!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m going to call my feeling &#8220;<em><strong>palinschmerz<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;&nbsp;\u00a0 It is the pain and weariness caused by the reality of Palin&#8217;s existence. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weltschmerz\" target=\"_blank\">*<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words are important.&nbsp;\u00a0 Language enables us to communicate ideas. You can&#8217;t throw out &#8220;blood libel&#8221; and expect to get away with it. Obviously, Mrs. Palin intended to cause a commotion when she used the term in her idiotically self-serving speech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/blood-libel-and-palinschmerz\/\">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":[8,7,6],"tags":[295,378],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1M8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828"}],"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=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}