{"id":28116,"date":"2018-06-23T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28116"},"modified":"2018-06-24T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T18:25:12","slug":"a-brief-fascist-history-of-i-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28116","title":{"rendered":"A brief (fascist) history of \u2018I don\u2019t care\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/2018\/06\/a-brief-fascist-history-of-i-dont-care\/\">This article<\/a> was sparked by the jacket that Melania Trump wore as she travelled to a detention camp for migrant children, but my intent isn\u2019t to argue that she or her staff chose that jacket in order to send a coded message to the president\u2019s far-right followers. It is, rather, to highlight some of the historical echoes of that phrase \u2013 \u2018I don\u2019t care\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The echoes of which someone ought to have been aware, especially in an administration that includes \u2013 to put it mildly \u2013 several far-right sympathisers. And also to show that the attitude, the theatrical \u2018not caring\u2019, was an explicit character trait of Fascism.<\/p>\n<p>Which, at the very least, seems a troubling coincidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was sparked by the jacket that Melania Trump wore as she travelled to a detention camp for migrant children, but my intent isn\u2019t to argue that she or her staff chose that jacket in order to send a coded message to the president\u2019s far-right followers. It is, rather, to highlight some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28119,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116\/revisions\/28119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}