{"id":16441,"date":"2017-01-14T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16441"},"modified":"2017-01-12T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:25:27","slug":"yahoo-anthony-bourdain-slams-privileged-liberals-for-utter-contempt-of-working-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/14\/yahoo-anthony-bourdain-slams-privileged-liberals-for-utter-contempt-of-working-class\/","title":{"rendered":"(Yahoo) Anthony Bourdain slams \u2018privileged\u2019 liberals for \u2018utter contempt\u2019 of working class"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCERPT: Celebrity chef and self-described \u201cprivileged Eastern liberal\u201d Anthony Bourdain slammed his fellow leftist elites this week, arguing that their disdain for working-class Americans helped create \u201cthe upswell of rage and contempt\u201d that propelled Donald Trump to the presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the upswell of rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that we\u2019re seeing now,\u201d Bourdain said in an interview with Reason magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America,\u201d Bourdain continued. \u201cThere are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get by and take care of themselves and the people they love. When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn and treat them with contempt, we do no one any good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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EXCERPT: Celebrity chef and self-described \u201cprivileged Eastern liberal\u201d Anthony Bourdain slammed his fellow leftist elites this week, arguing that their disdain for working-class Americans helped create \u201cthe upswell of rage and contempt\u201d that propelled Donald Trump to the presidency. \u201cThe utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16443,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441\/revisions\/16443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}