{"id":11346,"date":"2018-08-19T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11346"},"modified":"2018-08-19T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:32:36","slug":"the-double-standards-of-postmodern-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-double-standards-of-postmodern-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Double Standards of Postmodern Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Our institutions offer no principles to explain why some people\u2019s lives are harmed or destroyed, and others\u2019 lives are not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0recently hired as a writer and board member Sarah Jeong. The\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>knew that in recent years Jeong had posted a series of unapologetically racist anti-white tweets. She had offered wisdom such as \u201c#CancelWhitePeople\u201d and expressed hatred for males.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0discovered less graphic versions of such tweets from newly hired technology writer Quinn Norton earlier this year, the newspaper immediately fired Norton.<\/p>\n<p>The message of disparate treatment was that what bothers the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/08\/double-standards-of-postmodern-justice\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Our institutions offer no principles to explain why some people\u2019s lives are harmed or destroyed, and others\u2019 lives are not. The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0recently hired as a writer and board member Sarah Jeong. The\u00a0Times\u00a0knew that in recent years Jeong had posted a series of unapologetically racist anti-white tweets. She had [&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":[1195,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2X0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9661,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9661-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11346,"position":0},"title":"From an Angry Reader: I\u2026","author":"Megan Ring","date":"December 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: I love the Angry Reader section of your website, particularly your responses. 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He can charm, and has mastered the art of set cadence, pause, articulation, and voice modulation, in the manner of a JFK. He has appeared on television far more in nine months than have prior presidents\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;September 2009&quot;","block_context":{"text":"September 2009","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2009\/september-2009\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12029,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-do-they-hate-him-so\/","url_meta":{"origin":11346,"position":3},"title":"Why Do They Hate Him So?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Joe Biden claims he wants to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) jokes that she would like to go into an elevator with him and see Trump never come out alive. 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