{"id":4626,"date":"2011-07-07T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2011-07-07T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:48:08","slug":"grievance-calculator-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4626","title":{"rendered":"Grievance Calculator App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s multiculti*world many groups are vying to have their particular grievance&#8217;s assuaged. But what does a caring person do when claimed grievances conflict?\u00a0 Buy the <strong>Grievance Calculator App<\/strong> for your iPhone and stay politically correct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"IMG_2291\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/5906886978\/img_2291.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5155\/5906886978_8b4036589a_m.jpg?resize=131%2C240\" alt=\"IMG_2291\" width=\"131\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quote explains the complexity of the issue for the caring: &#8220;Feminism usually trumps everything unless there is multiculturalism involved, in which case Islam trumps discussion of women&#8217;s rights lest you be considered racist.\u00a0 Unless you&#8217;re gay! Wild card.<\/p>\n<p>In this app you would enter the names of the two groups in conflict and the calculator would compare their relative worth and tell you, from a politically correct standpoint which group you should support.<\/p>\n<p>Enter: <strong>Gay condo builders<\/strong> and <strong>feminist tree huggers<\/strong> and the app will tell you without any of the facts of the specific case who is in the right.<\/p>\n<p>Or <strong>starving minority children<\/strong> and <strong>union backed environmentalist ethanol producers<\/strong>. Which to choose?\u00a0 The Grievance Calculator App has the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The germ of the idea and the quote above are from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/author\/222331\">James Lileks<\/a> <\/strong>a columnist in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/\"><strong>National Review<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>* Multiculti<\/strong> was used and disparaged by Angela Markel the Prime Minister of Germany in a 2009 speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s multiculti*world many groups are vying to have their particular grievance&#8217;s assuaged. But what does a caring person do when claimed grievances conflict?\u00a0 Buy the Grievance Calculator App for your iPhone and stay politically correct. This quote explains the complexity of the issue for the caring: &#8220;Feminism usually trumps everything unless there is multiculturalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1cC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}