{"id":10154,"date":"2009-09-25T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T18:56:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-25T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:08:55","slug":"who-said-the-days-of-class-are-over-hows-a-bit-of-racism-to-classy-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/25\/who-said-the-days-of-class-are-over-hows-a-bit-of-racism-to-classy-things-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Said the Days of Class are Over? How&#8217;s a Bit of Racism to Classy Things Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Yee (D-SF) recently passed <a href=\"http:\/\/info.sen.ca.gov\/cgi-bin\/postquery?bill_number=sb_242&#038;sess=CUR&#038;house=B&#038;site=sen\">SB 242<\/a>, which would prohibit businesses denying services based on the language the customer spoke, with some exceptions for business transactions that require spoken language. &nbsp;The law grew out of a controversial decision by the Ladies&#8217; Professional Golf Association (LPGA) to require that the pro golfers speak English, despite the fact that golf doesn&#8217;t really require spoken language. &nbsp;But, don&#8217;t worry, California still has some of those super classy folk! This is from an email received by Sen. Yee&#8217;s office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You communist! &nbsp;If you live in this country, learn English, or get the hell out! &nbsp;Go live in China or Cuba and see row much you can yap your freaking gums about Chinese or Spanish. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a**holes like you who keep English from being our official language. &nbsp;The LPGA had it right! &nbsp;I don&#8217;t give a shit how many Asians are in the LPGA. &nbsp;Tell your fellow yellow folk to learn English or GET OUT!!!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if this guy feels the same about the Navajo language?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Yee (D-SF) recently passed <a href=\"http:\/\/info.sen.ca.gov\/cgi-bin\/postquery?bill_number=sb_242&#038;sess=CUR&#038;house=B&#038;site=sen\">SB 242<\/a>, which would prohibit businesses denying services based on the language the customer spoke, with some exceptions for business transactions that require spoken language. &nbsp;The law grew out of a controversial decision by the Ladies&#8217; Professional Golf Association (LPGA) to require that the pro golfers speak English, despite the fact that golf doesn&#8217;t really require spoken language. &nbsp;But, don&#8217;t worry, California still has some of those super classy folk! This is from an email received by Sen. Yee&#8217;s office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You communist! &nbsp;If you live in this country, learn English, or get the hell out! &nbsp;Go live in China or Cuba and see row much you can yap your freaking gums about Chinese or Spanish. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a**holes like you who keep English from being our official language. &nbsp;The LPGA had it right! &nbsp;I don&#8217;t give a shit how many Asians are in the LPGA. &nbsp;Tell your fellow yellow folk to learn English or GET OUT!!!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if this guy feels the same about the Navajo language?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[316,1496,7027],"class_list":["post-10154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-316","tag-1496","tag-7027"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2DM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}