{"id":3514,"date":"2013-09-16T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T12:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2013-09-16T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T12:37:44","slug":"social-media-reveal-racists-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"Social media reveal racists among us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve discovered an unexpected plus about the advent of social media on modern society.<\/p>\n<p>They reveal individuals&#8217; character or their lack of it while identifying who these individuals are to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the reaction to last night&#8217;s crowning of the new Miss America, who is a young woman named Nina Davuluri. She hails from New York. She&#8217;s the first Indian-American to be crowned Miss America. The reaction from some of her countrymen? Well, it was quite revealing.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/16\/showbiz\/miss-america-racist-reactions\/index.html?hpt=hp_c2<\/p>\n<p>The link attached here reveals the moronic attitudes of Americans toward people of certain ethnicities. I won&#8217;t detail here what some of the individuals said about Davuluri. You can access it by clicking on the link.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say the young woman comes from a successful family. Her dad is a physician. Nina aspires to follow in his footsteps. She&#8217;s a young woman of considerable accomplishment. She is the latest in a long line of such women to own the title of Miss America.<\/p>\n<p>As for social media&#8217;s influence on modern culture, we&#8217;re seeing by the reactions posted on Twitter to this event, there&#8217;s a certain value in allowing idiots to express themselves freely. They&#8217;ve exposed themselves to the rest of the world. <\/p>\n<p>As an old friend once told me, it&#8217;s better to keep your enemy out front where you can see them rather than have them hiding in the bushes.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered an unexpected plus about the advent of social media on modern society. They reveal individuals&#8217; character or their lack of it while identifying who these individuals are to the rest of the world. Consider the reaction to last night&#8217;s crowning of the new Miss America, who is a young woman named Nina Davuluri. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social media reveal racists among us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[3089,4300,4932],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-miss-america","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}