{"id":476092,"date":"2022-01-19T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=8d63c3a2a5d719ed7555aafb9a919244"},"modified":"2022-01-19T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:23:14","slug":"ep-559-one-key-way-we-cannot-respond-to-racism-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/19\/ep-559-one-key-way-we-cannot-respond-to-racism-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 559 – One key way we CANNOT respond to racism & bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"
I actually think it is a natural human response to return ugliness to those who were ugly to you or someone you care about. It feels good. I get it. It's something I have to resist every single day, though, because before you know it, you may be as bad or worse than them.
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\nYesterday I posted a horrible video of openly racist basketball fans in China openly calling former NBA player Sonny Weems a nigger there. It was ugly. But in response to it, I see something that I often see in response to hate. And I want to talk about it.It<\/a>'s one key way we CANNOT respond to hate. Let me unpack and explain it.<\/div>\n\n

This post was originally published on The Breakdown with Shaun King<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I actually think it is a natural human response to return ugliness to those who were ugly to you or someone you care about. It feels good. I get it. It’s something I have to resist every single day, though, because before you know it, you may be as bad…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978213,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476092\/revisions\/978213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}