{"id":73155,"date":"2012-04-09T03:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T09:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=73155"},"modified":"2026-10-06T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:48:17","slug":"laffaire-derbyshire-goes-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=73155","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Affaire Derbyshire Goes International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tollbit-host.com\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/9193070\/British-writer-John-Derbyshire-sacked-by-The-National-Review-for-racist-article.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a> has a piece that slovenly characterizes John&#8217;s article as &#8216;racist&#8217; but is otherwise fairly accurate.<\/p>\n<p>The disappointing thing is the number of people who, had it been a black guy talking about white people, would have praised it for its &#8216;courage&#8217; and &#8216;speaking truth to power&#8217;, yet are in the forefront of those howling for his scalp, while out-and-out racists like Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson apparently get a pass.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing so strongly supports what John has to say as the reactions to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Telegraph has a piece that slovenly characterizes John&#8217;s article as &#8216;racist&#8217; but is otherwise fairly accurate. The disappointing thing is the number of people who, had it been a black guy talking about white people, would have praised it for its &#8216;courage&#8217; and &#8216;speaking truth to power&#8217;, yet are in the forefront of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421035,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73155\/revisions\/421035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}