{"id":34144,"date":"2013-02-06T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34144"},"modified":"2013-02-06T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T16:44:17","slug":"34144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34144","title":{"rendered":"No, Really – I’ve Never Heard That One Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Brauer of the\u00a0MinnPost\u00a0<\/em>– which seems to be peeling more of the wrapper off the idea that it’s a partisan DFL PR site every week, perhaps filling the “void” the\u00a0Minnesota “Independent”\u00a0<\/em>left – tweeted about the crowd at the hearings for the Paymar Gun Grab yesterday:<\/p>\n

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#stuffwhitepeoplelike<\/a> \u201c@hartbeat11<\/a>: Rm 10 at MN SOB filled with people interested in gun legislation.campl.us\/nToK<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 David Brauer (@dbrauer) February 5, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now, David’s a good guy. \u00a0About as white as they get, by the way, but I do try to focus on the content of mens’ souls rather than the color of their skin. \u00a0Not sure where I got that. \u00a0But I digress.<\/p>\n

I thought about responding…:<\/p>\n

#StuffWhitePeopleLike – see also “Any MinnPost columnist<\/a> or\u00a0staff<\/a>\u00a0meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>hilarious – southwest Minneapolitan Brauer, at the head of a staff of middle-class, NPR-listening, Volvo\/Subaru\/Prius-driving U of M\/Saint Olaf\/Carlton\/St. Thomas grads that is more Caucasoid than the Hutchinson Rotary Club, yipping about the skin color of Second Amendment activists?<\/p>\n

As is often the case, Nancy LaRoche had a better idea:<\/p>\n

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.@dbrauer<\/a>: You should visit Bill’s Range in Robbinsdale, then retract that silly #stuffwhitepeoplelike<\/a> hashtag.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nancy LaRoche (@nwlaroche) February 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Brauer’s defense – everyone on both sides was white, and it’s “interesting who got defensive”.<\/p>\n

Because the role of journalists is to “afflict those who are peevish about being perpetually slandered”, I guess. \u00a0Especially as the Twin Cities’ media aids and abets the DFL in setting up the debate over Paymar’s gun grab bills as a contest between poor, beset, multiracial urban Minnesota and white, callous, redneck outstate Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Brauer of the\u00a0MinnPost\u00a0– which seems to be peeling more of the wrapper off the idea that it’s a partisan DFL PR site every week, perhaps filling the “void” the\u00a0Minnesota “Independent”\u00a0left – tweeted about the crowd at the hearings for the Paymar Gun Grab yesterday: #stuffwhitepeoplelike \u201c@hartbeat11: Rm 10 at MN SOB filled with people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34144","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=34144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34148,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34144\/revisions\/34148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}