{"id":7808,"date":"2018-01-29T21:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2018-01-29T21:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T05:01:28","slug":"a-hammer-and-sickle-is-not-an-appropriate-fashion-accessory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2018\/01\/29\/a-hammer-and-sickle-is-not-an-appropriate-fashion-accessory\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hammer and Sickle Is Not an Appropriate Fashion Accessory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler, the Creator, who was nominated for Best Rap Album of the year for Flower Boy, showed up on the Grammy&#8217;s red carpet wearing a Russian hat, known as the <em>ushanka<\/em>, with a Sickle and Hammer soviet symbol on the hat. I wonder if such a move would have been ignored by everyone if he had been sporting a swastika instead?  Tyler Gregory Okonma is the rap artist&#8217;s actual name.  He is either evil or ignorant, though those two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.  Given his penchant for misogyny and homophobia in his rap lyrics, I&#8217;ll go for both.  Communism is no less evil than Nazism, and should be criticized just as harshly.  Communism is responsible for oppression, religious persecution, and for killing at least a hundred million people during the twentieth century.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression-ebook\/dp\/B017QFW73Y\/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&#038;me=\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Black Book of Communism<\/em><\/a> is something Tyler, the Creator might want to think about reading.  Of course, the entertainment magazines and the other entertainers who ignored Tyler, the Creator&#8217;s vile display of a disgusting symbol of oppression and death without condemnation might want to read it too.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler, the Creator, who was nominated for Best Rap Album of the year for Flower Boy, showed up on the Grammy&#8217;s red carpet wearing a Russian hat, known as the ushanka, with a Sickle and Hammer soviet symbol on the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2018\/01\/29\/a-hammer-and-sickle-is-not-an-appropriate-fashion-accessory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7809,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}