{"id":282,"date":"2005-03-04T23:14:06","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T03:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=282"},"modified":"2005-03-04T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2005-03-05T03:14:06","slug":"on-taking-things-out-of-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"On taking things out of context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m going to slam a conservative for taking my writings out of context, I should note that it&#8217;s not a feature of life that&#8217;s bounded by partisan or ideological leanings.  As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcynic.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/making_gay_righ.php\">Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> makes clear, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=506104\">criticism<\/a> of Jada Pinkett Smith&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=506062\">appearance at a Harvard University forum on diversity<\/a> is as utterly absurd as what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000211.html\">Jacob Laksin wrote in his e-mail correspondence<\/a>.  Apparently Smith said we should not be bound by conventional ideas and said, specifically, that women should feel they shouldn&#8217;t have to compromise on their professional and personal lives.  Apparently for mentioning the word &#8220;husband,&#8221; one gay coalition at Harvard castigated her as <em>heteronormal<\/em>.  Didn&#8217;t they listen to what she actually said?  Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m going to slam a conservative for taking my writings out of context, I should note that it&#8217;s not a feature of life that&#8217;s bounded by partisan or ideological leanings. As Dispatches from the Culture Wars makes clear, the criticism of Jada Pinkett Smith&#8217;s appearance at a Harvard University forum on diversity is as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-4y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}