{"id":8534,"date":"2016-12-27T23:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T07:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2016-12-27T23:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T07:31:24","slug":"no-jesus-was-not-a-nonwhite-refugee-who-would-have-voted-for-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/no-jesus-was-not-a-nonwhite-refugee-who-would-have-voted-for-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Jesus was not a \u201cNonWhite\u201d refugee who would have voted for \u2026 | Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/opacity\/no-jesus-was-not-a-nonwhite-refugee-who-would-have-voted-for-43779209eea4#.qk1ciku2y\" target=\"_blank\">No, Jesus was not a \u201cNonWhite\u201d refugee who would have voted for \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem with identity politics is that they are fully ignorant of, among other things, history. And they must be as blind visually as they are intellectually. How did Judeans and Galileans look like at the time of Christ? Not according to your politically driven classifications; and not according to some BS in a 2001 article in Scientific American (based on \u201cscientific\u201d reconstruction of facial features and skin tone from \u2026 bones). And don\u2019t assume that Jesus would have voted for neocon hawks, Salafi regime promoters, rent seeking \u201ceducated\u201d bureaucrats and state-worshipping IYIs (intellectual yet idiots)\u200a\u2014\u200asimply, Jesus wanted a separation of the holy and the profane, (<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nntaleb\/we-dont-know-what-we-are-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-religion-3e65e6a3c44e#.na0tv8lap\" target=\"_blank\">see my article here<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Jesus was not a \u201cNonWhite\u201d refugee who would have voted for \u2026 The problem with identity politics is that they are fully ignorant of, among other things, history. And they must be as blind visually as they are intellectually. How did Judeans and Galileans look like at the time of Christ? Not according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[1396,1395],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medium","tag-identity-politics","tag-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}