{"id":10943,"date":"2012-12-26T21:16:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:16:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:16:57","slug":"distinct-currents-of-multiculturalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/12\/26\/distinct-currents-of-multiculturalism\/","title":{"rendered":"distinct currents of Multiculturalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Ross Douthat had one of those &#8220;We need more Babies&#8221; editorials that various conservative pundits sometimes go over to. \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/05\/24\/john-gibson-and-the-pc-of-anti-pc\/\">See John Gibson a few years ago<\/a> on how we need to battle the Mexican threat. \u00c2\u00a0Kartha Pollit, writer of the Nation, chimes in with the odd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/171614\/go-your-womb-ross-douthat#\">inconsistency of the storyline<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>As for low-income women, pushing them to have fewer kids was one of the goals of welfare reform: maybe it worked.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oooo&#8230;. oooo&#8230; ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. \u00c2\u00a0Interesting little nugget in the latest New Yorker, though, in an article about a rural Turkish WOMEN&#8217;s thetre troupe and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2012\/12\/24\/121224fa_fact_batuman\"> the culture it stands up against.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Islamist Party leader and Prime Minister since 2003)<em> Edogan has often stated that every married woman should bear at least five children. \u00c2\u00a0Once, he boosted the number to five. \u00c2\u00a0He thinks Cesarean births decrease women&#8217;s fertility, and has characterized both Cesareans and abortions as insidious plot to stunt Turkey&#8217;s youth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Familiar story, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Ross Douthat had one of those &#8220;We need more Babies&#8221; editorials that various conservative pundits sometimes go over to. \u00c2\u00a0See John Gibson a few years ago on how we need to battle the Mexican threat. \u00c2\u00a0Kartha Pollit, writer of the Nation, chimes in with the odd inconsistency of the storyline: As for low-income women, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}