{"id":3723,"date":"2002-05-12T05:51:41","date_gmt":"2002-05-12T10:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2012-05-06T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T13:39:50","slug":"its-that-man-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2002\/05\/12\/its-that-man-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s that man again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSpeaking of demonising Pim Fortuyn&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/story.jsp?story=293152\">Only the Dutch could have a gay sociologist fascist<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\nThe murder is further complicated by the fact that only the Dutch could have a fascist leader who was a gay sociologist. Maybe he was trying to build a liberal, inclusive fascism, dreaming of the day he could announce to his followers &#8220;and now, after a hard afternoon&#8217;s goose-stepping, let&#8217;s relax, massage each other&#8217;s shoulders and get rid off all that tension before invading a neighbouring country.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHis sexuality has been cited as one of the reasons that he couldn&#8217;t have been a fascist, but the far right seems capable of gliding over these contradictions. If Hitler had been gay, the only difference to history would have been the uniforms, when he&#8217;d thrown a strop and yelled, &#8220;Brown shirts and jackboots? Have you no sense of colour co-ordination&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s typical that an English comedian did have the guts to take the mickey out of Fortuyn&#8217;s death, while our own cabaretiers haven&#8217;t dared comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of demonising Pim Fortuyn&#8230; Only the Dutch could have a gay sociologist fascist The murder is further complicated by the fact that only the Dutch could have a fascist leader who was a gay sociologist. Maybe he was trying to build a liberal, inclusive fascism, dreaming of the day he could announce to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,72,294,656],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch-politics","category-funny","category-lgbt","category-pim-fortuyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}