{"id":8805,"date":"2017-10-27T09:29:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8805"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:29:21","slug":"mdot-swastika-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8805","title":{"rendered":"MDOT Swastika Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SwastikaHogabn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SwastikaHogabn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SwastikaHogabn.png 359w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SwastikaHogabn-168x300.png 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a>The debate over MDOT&#8217;s unfortunate graphic evolved into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/politics\/bs-md-swastika-mdot-brochure-20171026-story.html\">an article in the Baltimore Sun<\/a>. Christina Tkacik reports that Transportation Secretary Rahn has pulled the image from a brochure published by the state that appeared on its website. When asked about it, your gentle blogger said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOf course it looks like a swastika,\u201d said David Lublin, a professor with American University who posted a photo of the image on his blog, which chronicles Maryland politics.<\/p>\n<p>But Lublin said he wasn\u2019t offended by the image, assuming it was just a \u201cbrainfart.\u201d MDOT has \u201cflubbed a lot\u201d over the years, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s enough hate in the world without us searching out for it,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe the last especially strongly. The <em>Sun<\/em>&#8216;s Erin Cox drew attention to it for the hilarity of this wonderful forehead-hits-keyboard moment and to spur discussion. If anyone seriously thought that this reflected anti-Semitism on the part of the Hogan Administration, this would&#8217;ve been front page news&#8211;not a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a moment to state the obvious, the unfortunate swastika graphic is completely different that Donald Trump&#8217;s retweeting of neo-Nazi images containing some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes. Moreover, unlike the Orange Occupant of the White House, I&#8217;m sure that Gov. Hogan has at least the sense the Lord gave a turnip and just rolled his eyes and moved along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate over MDOT&#8217;s unfortunate graphic evolved into an article in the Baltimore Sun. Christina Tkacik reports that Transportation Secretary Rahn has pulled the image from a brochure published by the state that appeared on its website. When asked about it, your gentle blogger said: \u201cOf course it looks like a swastika,\u201d said David Lublin, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MDOT Swastika Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1197],"tags":[2053,2052],"class_list":["post-8805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-larry-hogan","tag-rosh-hashanah","tag-swastika"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2i1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8805\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}