{"id":4758,"date":"2020-06-07T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2020-06-07T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T17:13:28","slug":"activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=4758","title":{"rendered":"Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/k-pop-fans-defuse-racist-hashtags\">New Yorker<\/a> piece is awesome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conclusion: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The activism of K-pop fans this week reminded me how important it is to highlight avenues of protest that don\u2019t exclude the immunocompromised or otherwise high-risk people (for whom exposure to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tag\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0during a march or rally might be deadly), or anyone in a financially precarious situation (for whom cash donations to bail funds and other causes might feel impossible). Fan groups\u2014especially when their members are young or female\u2014are often ignored or scorned, which means that there\u2019s also a spiritual kinship to K-pop stans\u2019 support of Black Lives Matter. Their action was a moving and effective gesture of solidarity in a moment that demands exactly that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This New Yorker piece is awesome. Conclusion: &#8220;The activism of K-pop fans this week reminded me how important it is to highlight avenues of protest that don\u2019t exclude the immunocompromised or otherwise high-risk people (for whom exposure to the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0during a march or rally might be deadly), or anyone in a financially precarious situation (for whom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=4758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Activism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8rNFZ-activism","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}