{"id":392,"date":"2006-08-10T23:53:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T23:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2006-08-10T23:53:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T23:53:21","slug":"political-correctness-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Political Correctness Gone Mad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this new haka the All Blacks are doing before big rugby matches, with a gesture at the end that is interpreted as &#8216;throat-slitting&#8217;.<br \/>\nParents are complaining about their kids copying the gesture in a threatening way.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been trying to find out what my opinion is on this important issue of the day.  But I&#8217;m stuck!  I can&#8217;t figure out which side are the silly Politically Correct wooly woofters!<br \/>\nAre they:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the people who make a fuss about the haka?  (Everyone knows that trying to mollycoddle our kids is the worst kind of PC liberal tree hugging nonsense!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or are they:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the people who <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> make a fuss about the haka?  (Everyone knows that favouring &#8220;Maori values&#8221; over proper New Zealand values is the worst kind of PC happy-clappy idiocy!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve consulted a range of right-wing blogs and columns but they don&#8217;t seem to agree!  Gosh!  What a fix!  Someone explain it to me please, or I&#8217;m going to start thinking *everyone* is a Politically Correct nancy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this new haka the All Blacks are doing before big rugby matches, with a gesture at the end that is interpreted as &#8216;throat-slitting&#8217;. Parents are complaining about their kids copying the gesture in a threatening way. I&#8217;ve been trying to find out what my opinion is on this important issue of the day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Political Correctness Gone Mad!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-6k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}