{"id":54316,"date":"2015-07-14T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54316"},"modified":"2015-07-16T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:30:25","slug":"privilege-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54316","title":{"rendered":"Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, while listening to Jack and Andrew on the lesser talk station, I caught them running through this piece about 38 examples of liberal privelege on college campuses.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The piece is very much worth a read.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you live in a place like the Twin Cities, you realize there’d be room for a similar piece for adults in places where Jon Stewart is considered news and where chanting “settled science!” is considered an argument-ender.<\/p>\n

I’m going to take quick shot at it, off the top of my head: \u00a0if you’re an adult in a “progressive” city…:<\/p>\n

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  1. You’ve never had to learn to confront dissent as anything other than either a mortal threat to your worldview, or a joke to be scuttled away from, using ad homina if necessary.<\/li>\n
  2. You’ve never had to learn to debate at a level beyond strawmen, red herrings, and chuckling “facts have a liberal bias” as if the saying were handed down by the ancients, rather than by a mediocre comic who made a living satirizing\u00a0conservatives.<\/li>\n
  3. After 12 years of indoctrination in the public schools, and often as not 4-8 years at an institution where dissent is treated as a pathology, you are utterly secure in your faith that your club is the sole source of truth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    35 more to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Earlier this week, while listening to Jack and Andrew on the lesser talk station, I caught them running through this piece about 38 examples of liberal privelege on college campuses.\u00a0 The piece is very much worth a read. Of course, if you live in a place like the Twin Cities, you realize there’d be room […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,308,309,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-education","category-entitled-america","category-indoctrinate-u","category-pc","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54316","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=54316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54340,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54316\/revisions\/54340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}