{"id":11947,"date":"2011-12-27T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11947"},"modified":"2011-12-28T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:50:28","slug":"honoring-a-catholic-bigot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/12\/honoring-a-catholic-bigot\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring a Anti-Catholic bigot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/bigot-nominated-to-nj-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic League<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHF) includes luminaries as diverse as Albert Einstein and Shaquille O\u2019Neal. It should not be dishonored by including bigots: Catholics will be outraged to learn that of the 50 nominees for the class of 2012, Thomas Nast made the cut. Nast is not only the most bigoted cartoonist in American history, the 19th-century artist consistently inflamed hatred against the Irish and Catholics alike.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, the NJHF\u2019s website omits any mention of Nast\u2019s anti-Catholic legacy. No one is denying his many talents as a creative cartoonist, but to discuss his work without mentioning his virulent anti-Catholicism is on a par with discussing filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl\u2019s contributions without citing her role in generating anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Nast and Riefenstahl belong in a Bigots Hall of Shame, not in any honorary club.<\/p>\n<p>Nast\u2019s cartoons show a long and pernicious pattern of bigotry born of nativism [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/thomas-nast-cartoons\/\">click here<\/a>\u00a0for a sampling]. He encouraged the mixing of racism and anti-Catholic bigotry in his depictions of the Irish as a race of inferior gorillas; he demonized the Church as a nefarious institution threatening America\u2019s public schools; he depicted an attack on Fort Sumter by priests and bishops; he demonized bishops by portraying them as crocodiles with miters for jaws; and he also depicted them as emerging from slime while prowling towards children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Catholic League The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHF) includes luminaries as diverse as Albert Einstein and Shaquille O\u2019Neal. It should not be dishonored by including bigots: Catholics&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11949,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions\/11949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}