{"id":3857,"date":"2022-09-15T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2022-09-16T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T12:05:13","slug":"are-you-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3857","title":{"rendered":"Are You Offended?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JPA360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JPA360.jpg\" alt=\"Are You Offended?\" class=\"wp-image-3858\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JPA360.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JPA360-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet last Sunday, Meshawn Maddock, the co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, labeled Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. transportation secretary, former officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, and a gay man,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/09\/12\/michigan-gop-co-chair-calls-gay-transportation-secretary-pete-buttigieg-weak-little-girl\/8061986001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a &#8220;weak little girl.&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;Some people were offended. Some even called for her immediate removal. All that is understandable but not likely productive. It certainly was not outside the typical bounds of Maddock or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/michigan-republicans-escalate-lgbtq-attacks-will-voters-embrace-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Michigan Republican Party<\/a>, so it wasn&#8217;t surprising. Frankly, offending somebody is often exactly what they are aiming for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m not offended at all. I&#8217;m baffled. Absolutely baffled. I mean, did Meshawn &#8220;Shecky&#8221; Maddock really think that she was being clever or funny by channeling Mr. Roper from&nbsp;<em>Three&#8217;s Company<\/em>? Does she honestly consider promoting the adoption of electric vehicles to be &#8220;gay,&#8221; and therefore, a bad thing? Why in the world would she imagine calling anybody &#8220;a little girl&#8221; to be a zinger insult? In freakin&#8217; 2022?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, of course, the topper: How does any of this reconcile with being a good Christian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baffled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a tweet last Sunday, Meshawn Maddock, the co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, labeled Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. transportation secretary, former officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, and a gay man,&nbsp;a &#8220;weak little girl.&#8221;&nbsp;Some people were offended. Some even called for her immediate removal. All that is understandable but not likely productive. It certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}