{"id":29193,"date":"2019-07-24T11:53:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29193"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:54:03","slug":"assholes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29193","title":{"rendered":"True American Assholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/triad-city-beat.com\/haters-target-winston-salem-concert-african-band-stood-islamists\/\">The comments in<\/a> response to two sponsored posts on Facebook promoting an upcoming Winston-Salem concert by the Grammy-winning and internationally-acclaimed group Tinariwen came in a steady drip of loathing, vitriol and menace.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter from Smithfield wrote on July 13: \u201cGotta bring my AR, too\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another commenter chimed in: \u201cSo ISIS is playing the Ramcat? LOL.\u201d And another: \u201cTake the fucking towels off your god damn heads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the Ramkat\u2019s invitation to \u201cjoin us for Tinariwen, with special guest Lonnie Holley,\u201d one commenter wrote, \u201cOr bomb us, your choice.\u201d A commenter from Randolph County wrote, \u201cAny true American will not support this bunch of trash. Let them perform in their own country. They need to get out of the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to a photo of the band wearing traditional north African robes and turbans, a commenter from Archdale, wrote, \u201cAin\u2019t looking at nothing Muslim. The wanna-be religion that\u2019s the plague of the world.\u201d Another wrote, \u201cLook like terrorists to me. Um no way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You'll be shocked to learn that, instead of being ISIS members or promoters of hatred, the band was actually <i>chased out of their home country of Mali by Islamic extremists<\/i> for being musicians.<\/p>\n<p>None of the FB clowns bothered to do any research, of course. They saw people in different clothes and shit themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comments in response to two sponsored posts on Facebook promoting an upcoming Winston-Salem concert by the Grammy-winning and internationally-acclaimed group Tinariwen came in a steady drip of loathing, vitriol and menace. One commenter from Smithfield wrote on July 13: \u201cGotta bring my AR, too\u2026.\u201d Another commenter chimed in: \u201cSo ISIS is playing the Ramcat? [&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-29193","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\/29193","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=29193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29195,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29193\/revisions\/29195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}