{"id":30111,"date":"2012-05-24T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30111"},"modified":"2012-05-24T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:30:19","slug":"looks-like-a-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30111","title":{"rendered":"Looks like a nail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben sends us a link to an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/militarytimes.com\/blogs\/scoopdeck\/2012\/05\/17\/usna-official-says-indian-run-offensive\/\">Navy Times<\/a> which tells us the story of a Master Chief Engineman (SW) Christopher Gary, who is an equal opportunity adviser at the Naval Academy and he&#8217;s sending out messages that the term &#8220;Indian run&#8221; is offensive. if you don&#8217;t know, an Indian run goes like this; A unit is running like they normally run in formation, and then on command, one or two runners from the back of the formation runs to the front of the formation, sometimes after making a complete circuit. Well, the Master Chief thinks, somehow, that&#8217;s offensive to call it an &#8220;Indian run&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe term \u2018Indian Run\u2019 is used \u2026 at various levels here at the Academy, and it is widely used among the public,\u201d Gary wrote in the May 14 email. \u201cI hope all can already see the problem with this, but let me be clear, this is a form of stereotyping.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stereotyping? Really? Because Indians are always breaking formation to get in front?<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s true that a hammer thinks everything looks like a nail, and when you&#8217;re an equal opportunity adviser, everything sounds offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben sends us a link to an article in the Navy Times which tells us the &hellip; <a title=\"Looks like a nail\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30111\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looks like a nail<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}