{"id":3172,"date":"2018-05-01T08:54:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2018-05-01T08:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:54:51","slug":"liberals-and-the-center-preach-false-equivalence-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"Liberals and the Center Preach False Equivalence, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all the heat that Trump caught (and rightly so) for proclaiming there were &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/08\/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides\/537012\/\">some very fine people on both sides<\/a>&#8221; of a fascist rally and the associated counterprotest?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that liberals and centrists are guilty of false equivalence, too, and when referring to the <em>very same event.<\/em> There&#8217;s been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/nlg-opposes-both-sides-charlottesville-lawsuit-supports-redneck-revolt-and-socialist-rifle-association\/\">lawsuit<\/a> filed in Charlottesville that makes no distinction between fascists and those who showed up solely to oppose fascists.<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;friends&#8221; like this, who needs enemies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all the heat that Trump caught (and rightly so) for proclaiming there were &#8220;some very fine people on both sides&#8221; of a fascist rally and the associated counterprotest? Well, it turns out that liberals and centrists are guilty of false equivalence, too, and when referring to the very same event. There&#8217;s been a lawsuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}