{"id":12998,"date":"2010-04-28T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/04\/28\/12998.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:55:56","slug":"grew-up-in-arizona-left-aint-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/04\/28\/grew-up-in-arizona-left-aint-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Grew up in Arizona, left, ain’t going back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know it won't really make any difference, but perhaps it will become a meme, and then there is just the slightest chance it will make a difference. George F. Will, in the Washington Post column A law Arizona can live with<\/a>, just two paragraphs after pointing out that 30% of Arizona's residents are Hispanics (and therefore fairly likely subject to a law enforcement officer's reasonable<\/i> demand for proof of legal residency in the US), says this shit.\n

Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their back yards at 3 a.m.<\/blockquote>\n

My closest contacts with Hispanics this year are with my daughter's classmates and their parents and families, with college professors and custodial workers and campus cops, with a children's librarian, with a handful of Facebook Friends and, depending on how you count them, two of the very dearest little girls to me in the whole world, to whom I am an honorary uncle. In the past, my closest contacts with Hispanics were with women I dated, teachers and professors I learned from (including Angela DelaCruz, my earliest great teacher), my teammates and rivals in high school Speech and Debate competitions and college APDA (one of whom<\/a>, now that I think about it, needs to be asked about this law as soon as possible) (by the way? Beat him like a gong. It was kind of a running joke), and my editor on the high school newspaper.\n

And I trim my own lawn, asshole.\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger is personally insulted by George F. Will, as I am certainly disdainful (largely through personal experience) and, thank goodness, at a distance. Unless you count from his own Arizonan self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19077,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions\/19077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}