{"id":6227,"date":"2024-02-05T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:44:35","slug":"selena-robinson-should-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6227","title":{"rendered":"Selena Robinson Should Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update:<\/strong> She resigned<\/a>, probably because she was told that she could either resign or be fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If she doesn’t resign, she should be fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free speech is a thing, and as such she had the right to say what she did<\/a>. If she had been a member of the US Republican Party, her words would have helped<\/em> her reputation within her party. But she is not a member of a proto-fascist right-wing party. She is a member of a social-democratic<\/a> government. Social democracy has generally been critical of imperialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a minister in such a government, she had to watch her words, as should any minister in any government. If she didn’t like that, she shouldn’t have gone into politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her apology said almost all of the right words. It’s just that two critically important words \u2014 “I resign” \u2014 are missing. If she was really<\/em> as concerned about her previously unquestioned beliefs as she claims to be, she would want to step back from power for a while to reexamine those beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she did not do so. As such, the so-called “apology” comes across as just that: the insincere words of someone desperately trying to cling to her position of political power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a general principle of politics, going back to the time of Plato, that they who most desire power for power’s sake are those least worthy of holding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To reiterate: Selena Robinson should resign. If she doesn’t resign, she should be fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: She resigned, probably because she was told that she could either resign or be fired. If she doesn’t resign, she should be fired. Free speech is a thing, and as such she had the right to say what she did. If she had been a member of the US Republican Party, her words would […]<\/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-6227","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\/6227","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=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6233,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}