{"id":13016,"date":"2014-02-17T13:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2014-02-17T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:46:54","slug":"obama-kicking-a-door-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13016","title":{"rendered":"American president kicking a door is &#8216;racist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/okicksdoor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13017\" alt=\"okicksdoor\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/okicksdoor-300x130.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/okicksdoor-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/okicksdoor-1024x445.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/okicksdoor.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada was forced to issue a formal apology for emailing a picture of President Obama kicking open a door\u2013all because some students thought the image was somehow racist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image was actually an edited .gif, and was shown by Jay Leno on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d last fall. It humorously suggests that the president may be fed up with press conferences. McGill student Brian Farnan, vice president of the university\u2019s student government, sent out an email with the .gif and the harmless caption, \u201cHonestly midterms get out of here,\u201d according to Legal Insurrection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What happened next is almost unbelievable: Another student issued a formal complaint against Farnan for committing a \u201cmicro-aggression.\u201dFor those not up-to-date on the PC lexicon, \u201cmicro-aggression\u201d is the latest phrase of choice for leftist radicals seeking to blame racism for common annoyances suffered by people of all races. Minority activists at the University of Michigan, for example, have insisted that trivial slights, such as \u201cHaving your opinion second-guessed in a group assignment,\u201d are micro-aggressions that betray the campus as a hostile place for students of color.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Daily Caller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada was forced to issue a formal apology for emailing a picture of President Obama kicking open a door\u2013all because some students thought the image was somehow racist. The image was actually an edited .gif, and was shown by Jay Leno on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d last fall. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American president kicking a door is &#8216;racist&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[593,6166,157,745],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-barack-obama","tag-black-president","tag-racism","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/okicksdoor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13027,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions\/13027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}