{"id":30017,"date":"2017-01-13T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30017"},"modified":"2017-01-13T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:37:33","slug":"this-is-sad-petty-and-unnecessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30017","title":{"rendered":"This Is Sad, Petty, And Unnecessary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the attacks labeled at Donald Trump<\/a> and his family are simply amazing. The man won an election–that is no reason to insist that he and his family be drawn and quartered. I simply do not understand it. I was never a fan of Barack Obama, but he was President, and that was that. I don’t think his political opponents ever stooped to the level of childishness and meanness that we are seeing in the political left right now.<\/p>\n

Newsbusters<\/a> posted an article today about Robin Givhan<\/a>, the fashion writer at the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Robin Givhan, the liberal political columnist who plays fashion writer at The Washington Post,<\/em> dominated the front<\/a> of the Style section on Friday with a question: Can a fashion designer in good conscience agree to dress Melania Trump<\/a>? Givhan argued that blacklisting the new First Lady is a good way to show a social conscience. The Trumps can buy off the rack, so it\u2019s not really a blacklist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The subheadline explained: “When it comes to dressing the Trump women, a designer’s most natural vehicle for protest — and patriotism — is the absence of their name.” Would it be “patriotism” if a designer refused to dress Michelle Obama<\/a>? Perish the thought. Givhan said dressing the First Lady \u2013 especially for Inauguration Night, has always been an honor, until Donald Trump inspired \u201cnew waves of racism and violence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really can’t believe the pettiness.<\/p>\n

I love the way Givhan explains that refusing to dress Melania Trump is different than refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. I guess freedom of association (as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution<\/a>) only applies sometimes.<\/p>\n

This is the explanation given:<\/p>\n

Givhan implicitly argues against the conservative pushback without being forthright: So a Christian baker has to make a cake for the gay wedding, but the gay fashion designer can refuse service to the President of the United States<\/a>? It\u2019s not the same, she argued:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone with disposable income can buy a designer\u2019s wares at retail \u2014 and even some red-carpet celebrities choose to do so. Hayden Panettiere purchased a Tom Ford gown for the 2014 Golden Globes<\/a>. For the 2016 Globes, Bryce Dallas Howard<\/a> picked up her Jenny Packham<\/a> gown at Neiman Marcus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why declining to dress a celebrity is not the equivalent of refusing service.<\/em> In doing so, designers would in fact be refusing a favor, with all the publicity that goes along with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What about patriotism? Should personal feelings and personal satisfaction be put aside out of respect for the symbolism of the first lady? Not necessarily. Protest that grows out of a desire to make the country better, to push it to live up to its ideals, is surely a form of patriotism\u2026<\/em>.for those designers for whom fashion serves as their voice in the world, they should not feel obligated to say something in which they do not believe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is really sad to see people behave this badly because their candidate lost the election.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the attacks labeled at Donald Trump and his family are simply amazing. The man won an election–that is no reason to insist that he and his family be drawn and quartered. I simply do not understand it. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,10551,10550,210,8367,4771],"class_list":["post-30017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-freedom-of-association","tag-melania-trump-robin-givhan","tag-michelle-obama","tag-the-washington-post","tag-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30018,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30017\/revisions\/30018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}