{"id":906,"date":"2025-02-22T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2025-02-22T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:22:11","slug":"democrats-need-their-own-dei-purge-josh-barro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/democrats-need-their-own-dei-purge-josh-barro\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDemocrats Need Their Own DEI Purge\u201d &#8211; Josh Barro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhat worldview am I complaining about? It\u2019s a worldview that obsessively categorizes people by their demographic characteristics, ranks them on how \u201cmarginalized\u201d (and therefore important) they are due to those characteristics, and favors or disfavors them accordingly. The holders of this worldview then compound their errors by looking to progressive pressure groups as a barometer of the preferences among the \u201cmarginalized\u201d population groups they purport to represent \u2014 that is, they decide some people are more important than others, and then they don\u2019t even correctly assess the desires of the people they have decided are most important\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshbarro.com\/p\/democrats-need-their-own-dei-purge\">https:\/\/www.joshbarro.com\/p\/democrats-need-their-own-dei-purge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat worldview am I complaining about? It\u2019s a worldview that obsessively categorizes people by their demographic characteristics, ranks them on how \u201cmarginalized\u201d (and therefore important) they are due to those characteristics, and favors or disfavors them accordingly. The holders of this worldview then compound their errors by looking to progressive pressure groups as a barometer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}