{"id":611,"date":"2013-12-07T06:27:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T06:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/07\/apartheids-useful-idiots\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:26:41","slug":"apartheids-useful-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/12\/07\/apartheids-useful-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Apartheid&#8217;s Useful Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See on <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/4012290772\/2013\/12\/07\/apartheid-s-useful-idiots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/4012290772\/2013\/12\/07\/apartheid-s-useful-idiots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/5zyO01aCo7_tIUZmJbqySTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> For many years, a large swath of this country failed Nelson Mandela, failed its own alleged morality, and failed the majority of people living in South Africa.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/12\/apartheids-useful-idiots\/282114\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See on theatlantic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See on Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties For many years, a large swath of this country failed Nelson Mandela, failed its own alleged morality, and failed the majority of people living in South Africa.\u00a0 See on theatlantic.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":734,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2013\/01\/15\/how-the-legal-system-failed-aaron-swartz-and-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":611,"position":0},"title":"How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz&#8211;and Us","author":"aslam","date":"January 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties\u201c\u2026under American law, anyone interesting is a felon. 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