{"id":1425,"date":"2007-10-10T05:34:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T10:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2007-10-10T05:34:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T10:34:17","slug":"the-last-minute-swerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"The Last-Minute Swerve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gisleson from Norwegianity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwegianity.com\/index.php?itemid=2184\">starts out on the beam<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Strib is doing an instant (i.e., bullshit) poll on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/10142\/story\/1472964.html\" target=\"_blank\">Can campuses reject some speakers and still respect free speech and academic freedom?<\/a> Desmond Tutu was not invited to speak at the University of St. Thomas, apparently because of some past statements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because, of course, matters of integrity and principle are best decided by unscientific polls, which is why the vote is currently deadlocked even though this is, morally, and open and shut case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True.\u00a0 Although I don&#8217;t know that anyone, even the Strib,\u00a0is pretending to &#8220;decide&#8221; this issue so much as &#8220;troll public opinion&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But then he swerves into the bridge abutment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Desmond Tutu is not a terrorist. He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 And as we all know, being a Nobel Peace Prize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprizes.com\/nobel\/peace\/peace.html\">winner<\/a> means you could <a href=\"http:\/\/almaz.com\/nobel\/peace\/1994a.html\"><em>never <\/em>be a terrorist<\/a>\u00a0(or even a <a href=\"http:\/\/almaz.com\/nobel\/peace\/1961a.html\">worthless dictator-coddling thug<\/a>, or\u00a0merely\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/almaz.com\/nobel\/peace\/1926a.html\">utterly<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/almaz.com\/nobel\/peace\/1929a.html\">useless<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And seriously &#8211; who&#8217;s called Tutu a terrorist?\u00a0 Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Or is this just another straw-peace-prize-winning-man?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gisleson from Norwegianity starts out on the beam&#8230;: The Strib is doing an instant (i.e., bullshit) poll on &#8220;Can campuses reject some speakers and still respect free speech and academic freedom? Desmond Tutu was not invited to speak at the University of St. Thomas, apparently because of some past statements.&#8221; Because, of course, matters of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}