{"id":5489,"date":"2014-07-25T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2014-07-25T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:00:33","slug":"your-happening-world-july-22nd-through-july-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/07\/25\/your-happening-world-july-22nd-through-july-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Happening World (July 22nd through July 25th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pando.com\/2014\/07\/24\/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-racist-history-heres-a-copy-of-its-holocaust-denial-special-issue\/\">As Reason&rsquo;s editor defends its racist history, here&rsquo;s a copy of its holocaust denial &ldquo;special issue&rdquo;<\/a> &#8211; For them, FDR was a tyrant and a criminal, an American Hitler, only no one else could see things their way, because the real Hitler was widely believed to be one of the worst figures in history. Therefore, libertarian &ldquo;historical revisionism&rdquo; had to convince these Americans that Hitler wasn&rsquo;t nearly as awful as they believed, which meant that the Holocaust couldn&rsquo;t have happened &mdash; if the goal was to discredit FDR and the New Deal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/the-top-200-ways-bleacher-report-screwed-me-over-1608499729\">The Top 200 Ways Bleacher Report Screwed Me Over<\/a> &#8211; In my three years at Bleacher Report, I covered the San Jose Sharks while studying in the Bay Area, and the Twins, Wild, Timberwolves, and Vikings upon returning home to Minnesota. I wrote over 500 articles, generated nearly three million page views, and received $200 for my services.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.wikia.com\/wiki\/Jim_Frenkel_at_WisCon_38\">Jim Frenkel at WisCon 38 &#8211; Geek Feminism Wiki<\/a> &#8211; In 2014, serial harasser Jim Frenkel attended Wiscon 38 despite complaints about him harassing a Wiscon 37 attendee, and previous reports. The Wiscon 38 organisers reported that they did not have a systemic way to track such issues. They reviewed the situation and provisionally banned Frenkel for several future years, a response that did not satisfy many onlookers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bcholmes.org\/the-readercon-thing\/\">Under the Beret &raquo; The Readercon Thing<\/a> &#8211; I&rsquo;m sure that most people on my friends lists are already aware of the sexual harassment incident at Readercon, but here&rsquo;s my attempt at a link round-up<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/readercon.org\/safety\/procedures.htm\">Readercon: Safety Procedures<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Reason&rsquo;s editor defends its racist history, here&rsquo;s a copy of its holocaust denial &ldquo;special issue&rdquo; &#8211; For them, FDR was a tyrant and a criminal, an American Hitler, only no one else could see things their way, because the real Hitler was widely believed to be one of the worst figures in history. Therefore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[870,2495,1965,1963,1867,2451,1966,1962,1959,2441,1961,1949],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linky","tag-fandom","tag-harassment","tag-holocaust-denial","tag-how-gullible-can-you-be","tag-internet","tag-libertarianism","tag-libertarians-make-everything-worse","tag-media-2","tag-readercon","tag-science-fiction","tag-sport","tag-wiscon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","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=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}