{"id":2087,"date":"2014-04-21T16:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/what-we-are-witnessing-in-the-netherlands-and\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:48","slug":"what-we-are-witnessing-in-the-netherlands-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/what-we-are-witnessing-in-the-netherlands-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>What we are witnessing in the Netherlands, and across Europe, is the exploitation of the productive indeterminacy of culture and race \u201cfor the monopolisation of virtue and a defence mechanism against the loss of self,\u201d both in an economic, and political sense\u2014what Sherene Razack names \u201ca way of purifying and regenerating one\u2019s own race.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/processedlives.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/12\/i-didnt-mean-to-tracing-the-roots-of-dutch-innocence\/\">\u201cI Didn\u2019t Mean To!\u201d Tracing the Roots of \u2018Dutch Innocence\u2019 | Processed Life<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Being a white, reasonably well-off Dutchman, this makes for some uncomfortable reading, not in the least because much of it rings true\u2014there appears to be a lot of unexamined racism behind Dutch propriety.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we are witnessing in the Netherlands, and across Europe, is the exploitation of the productive indeterminacy of culture and race \u201cfor the monopolisation of virtue and a defence mechanism against the loss of self,\u201d both in an economic, and political sense\u2014what Sherene Razack names \u201ca way of purifying and regenerating one\u2019s own race.\u201d \u201cI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/21\/what-we-are-witnessing-in-the-netherlands-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}