{"id":17200,"date":"2016-09-23T15:36:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17200"},"modified":"2016-09-23T23:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T23:01:23","slug":"dont-judge-him-by-social-media-posts-cmon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17200","title":{"rendered":"Don’t judge him by social media posts? C’mon, man!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Almost no one outside of Seattle, Wash., likely had heard of Steve Clevenger until this week.<\/p>\n

Then he decided to spew some racially insensitive-sounding messages on social media. He blasted the Black Lives Matter Movement, implying that President Obama is somehow linked to it, labeling a shooting victim as a “thug.” He said the protesters should be “locked up like animals.”<\/p>\n

That, ladies and gents,\u00a0is how you become a household name these days in America.<\/p>\n

He wanted to make a statement about the Charlotte, N.C., protests.<\/p>\n

It didn’t go well.<\/p>\n

But here’s the best part. The Seattle Mariners’ part-time baseball player apologized to\u00a0“those I offended” and then urged his critics to “not judge” him on his social media posts.<\/p>\n

As someone who before this week had never before even knew this guy existed, how else am I supposed to “judge” an individual?<\/p>\n

These ridiculous social media posts are all we have, young man!<\/p>\n

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Now he’s known across the nation for something other than his athletic ability.<\/p>\n\n

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Almost no one outside of Seattle, Wash., likely had heard of Steve Clevenger until this week. Then he decided to spew some racially insensitive-sounding messages on social media. He blasted the Black Lives Matter Movement, implying that President Obama is somehow linked to it, labeling a shooting victim as a “thug.” He said the protesters … Continue reading Don’t judge him by social media posts? C’mon, man!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6591,6594,4300],"class_list":["post-17200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-charlotte-protests","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17210,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200\/revisions\/17210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}