{"id":11186,"date":"2018-05-15T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T01:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2018-05-15T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T01:43:06","slug":"the-nature-of-progressive-insensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-nature-of-progressive-insensitivity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Progressive Insensitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Why do so many famous social-justice crusaders turn out to be racist and sexist? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">F<\/span>ormer vice president Joe Biden is back in the news yet again. For a second time, he seems surprised that poor residents of the inner city are capable of doing sophisticated jobs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don\u2019t think ordinary people can do things like program, code. It\u2019s not rocket science, guys. So, we went and we hired some folks to go into the neighborhoods and pick 58 women, as it turns out, from the hood, for a 17-week program, if my memory serves me correctly, to learn how to code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2014 Biden had said about the same thing about women from the \u201chood\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/progressive-insensitivity-projection-deceit\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Why do so many famous social-justice crusaders turn out to be racist and sexist? \u00a0 Former vice president Joe Biden is back in the news yet again. For a second time, he seems surprised that poor residents of the inner city are capable of doing sophisticated jobs: We don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1186,1185,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Uq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12953,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-imaginarium\/","url_meta":{"origin":11186,"position":0},"title":"The Progressive Imaginarium","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness \u201cT-Bone\u201d lives in the progressive Imaginarium.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) conjured him up as his fake pal from the \u2019hood. 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