{"id":43803,"date":"2022-08-21T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T20:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=43803"},"modified":"2022-08-21T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T20:56:59","slug":"when-you-see-the-stupid-forced-terms-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2022\/08\/21\/when-you-see-the-stupid-forced-terms-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"when you see the stupid forced terms in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The polling is very assured, to the point where any Democratic Party flack who uses the term &#8220;latinx&#8221; needs to be fired automatically for political incompetence &#8212; a red flag pointing at broader problems.  Those further to the left with goals other than winning elections and a sense of &#8220;changing America&#8221; at a more root level can do what they must, with political relations to the party strained in whatever direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-224.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-224.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43804\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-224.png 499w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-224-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watching this baseball game out of Oakland, my first thought is &#8212; well, they have both their bases covered &#8212; the 3 percent activist latinx-ers and the broader Hispanics.  Then I realize &#8212; damned &#8212; they got me &#8212; I skipped past &#8220;Latinos&#8221;.  And yeah, technically two different groups &#8212; even as one will overwhelming respond &#8220;it&#8217;s latinos, stupid woke yahoos!&#8221;, though experience tells me they mostly don&#8217;t make the split difference &#8212; or one that the basic facts say one way end up the other way because of self-definition (Justice Sotomayer would be a Latina, except she identifies as Hispanic) &#8212; which I guess is why they&#8217;re thrown together here in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The polling is very assured, to the point where any Democratic Party flack who uses the term &#8220;latinx&#8221; needs to be fired automatically for political incompetence &#8212; a red flag pointing at broader problems. Those further to the left with goals other than winning elections and a sense of &#8220;changing America&#8221; at a more root [&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-43803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803","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=43803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43805,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803\/revisions\/43805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}