{"id":39053,"date":"2020-06-07T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39053"},"modified":"2020-06-07T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:18:44","slug":"excuses-excuses-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39053","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, Excuses, Excuses…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The New York Post<\/a> posted an article about a recent statement by New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones argued that rioters destroying property is \u201cnot violence\u201d \u2014 and referring to the crimes as such goes against what\u2019s moral.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDestroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence. To use the same language to describe those two things, I think is really not moral to do that,\u201d Hannah-Jones, who is Pulitzer Prize winner, told CBSN<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hannah-Jones, who writes for the Times Magazine, said the language should be reserved for crimes such as the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis after a white cop, Derek Chauvin, held his knee on Floyd\u2019s neck for several minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cViolence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man\u2019s neck until all of the life is leached out of his body,\u201d Hannah-Jones told the outlet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Her comments come as cities across the nation have been locked in days of heated protests over the death of Floyd \u2014 some of which have resulted in vandalism, looting and arson.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAny reasonable person would say we shouldn\u2019t be destroying other people\u2019s property, but these are not reasonable times,\u201d she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder if she would make that same statement if her family had a business that was destroyed or if the looters came to her residence. What happened to George Floyd was a crime. Committing another crime does not make it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The New York Post posted an article about a recent statement by New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones. The article reports: New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones argued that rioters destroying property is \u201cnot violence\u201d \u2014 and referring … 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":[4885,6913,12626,7964,2862,657,34,1453,8321,8045],"class_list":["post-39053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-george-floyd","tag-looting","tag-minneapolis","tag-new-york-post","tag-new-york-times","tag-property","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-vandalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39053","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=39053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39054,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39053\/revisions\/39054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}