{"id":11365,"date":"2017-08-30T21:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T02:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2017-08-30T21:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T02:26:45","slug":"the-roar-of-war-or-the-gurgle-of-a-toilet-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/30\/the-roar-of-war-or-the-gurgle-of-a-toilet-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roar Of War Or The Gurgle Of A Toilet?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have read a little further before posting this, because Rep Spencer has apologized. <em><strong>Politically Georgia<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.blog.myajc.com\/2017\/08\/30\/georgia-goper-says-his-warning-that-democrat-could-disappear-in-a-swamp-was-misinterpreted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A Georgia Republican lawmaker who<\/strong>\u00a0warned that his Democratic former colleague could \u201cgo missing in the Okefenokee\u201d over supporting the removal of Civil War monuments said he regrets that his comments on Facebook were \u201cmisinterpreted as a threat against her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Jason Spencer added that the nation\u2019s \u201cterrible\u201d racial division would only get worse if he cannot continue to have the type of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/politics.blog.ajc.com\/2017\/08\/29\/georgia-republican-warns-democrat-she-could-go-missing-over-criticism-of-civil-war-monuments\/\">conversation he had on social media<\/a>\u00a0with former Democratic state Rep. LaDawn Jones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s part of his apology:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI regret that my choice of words in warning LaDawn about the possibility of violence has been misinterpreted as a threat against her, or anyone else who would like to see historic monuments to the Confederacy removed. I was trying to warn her that there really are people who would harm others over the issue. In light of the recent tragic murder of a woman in Charlottesville, I believe that a certain degree of caution is necessary. I still do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI condemn racism, \u2018white supremacy\u2019 and any group from the yesterday\u2019s Klan to today\u2019s neo-Nazis, who espouses such vile beliefs. They should not be tolerated. Provoking such hateful people is to deliberately invite violence with them, and that should not happen in America in the 21st century.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminds me of the old BBS days, when it was easy to offend someone because body language, inflection, etc, simply didn&#8217;t come through the telecommunications channel.<\/p>\n<p>But I suspect the haptics folks are working on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have read a little further before posting this, because Rep Spencer has apologized. Politically Georgia reports: A Georgia Republican lawmaker who\u00a0warned that his Democratic former colleague could \u201cgo missing in the Okefenokee\u201d over supporting the removal of Civil War monuments said he regrets that his comments on Facebook \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/30\/the-roar-of-war-or-the-gurgle-of-a-toilet-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}