{"id":13301,"date":"2019-03-22T07:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=13301"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:20:46","slug":"no-more-florida-man-jokes-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/03\/22\/no-more-florida-man-jokes-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No More \u2018Florida Man\u2019 Jokes From Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2286,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.truthdig.com\\\/articles\\\/florida-man-jokes-are-an-excuse-to-laugh-at-the-poor&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260123173512\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.truthdig.com\\\/articles\\\/florida-man-jokes-are-an-excuse-to-laugh-at-the-poor\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 07:30:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:21:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:32:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 10:05:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 10:55:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 07:22:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07 07:22:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While I didn\u2019t know how little support Florida gave its less privileged residents, the common themes in all these stories really are glaringly obvious once pointed out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/florida-man-jokes-are-an-excuse-to-laugh-at-the-poor\/\" title=\"TruthDig: \u2018Florida Man\u2019 Jokes Are an Excuse to Laugh at the Poor\">\u2018Florida Man\u2019 Jokes Are an Excuse to Laugh at the Poor<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  \u201cAnother tedious, liberal, PC scold,\u201d you may think as you read the headline for this piece. \u201cWhy can\u2019t we just have fun and enjoy a hilarious meme in peace?\u201d Well, you can enjoy \u201cFlorida man\u201d all you want, but by any objective metric, it\u2019s worth noting that \u201cFlorida man\u201d memes\u2014just like all \u201cdumb criminal\u201d or \u201cweird crime\u201d stories\u2014are little more than a socially acceptable way of gawking at and belittling the dispossessed and indigent.<\/p>\n<p>  The reason Florida seems to have more \u201cbizarre news\u201d stories is because it leaves tens of thousands of people with financial, mental health and drug problems to fend for themselves, and then, under the banner of transparency, hands over the inevitable result of this lack of support to a click-hungry press. To paraphrase another viral tweet, it monetizes the rot.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cFlorida man\u201d isn\u2019t an accident. It\u2019s the logical byproduct of a state whose politics have been defined by cruel, racist indifference to the poor for decades.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I didn\u2019t know how little support Florida gave its less privileged residents, the common themes in all these stories really are glaringly obvious once pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2042],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-13301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}