{"id":54588,"date":"2015-08-06T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54588"},"modified":"2015-07-29T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:26:31","slug":"todays-etymology-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54588","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Etymology Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/politics\/ci_28544257\/3-women-minnesota-supreme-court-shortlist#\">Dayton said<\/a>:\u00a0 \u201cI am conscious of the diversity factor. I am also conscious of the fact that when Justice Wright departs there will be only one woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I notice that Hudson is Black and all three are female.\u00a0 No doubt all three are good Liberal Democrats, too. \u00a0For Governor Dayton, plainly, choosing a Supreme Court justice is all about their wisdom, maturity, experience and vision, about the content of their character rather than the color of their skin or their sex.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll get another marginally qualified Affirmative Action justice to legislate from the bench.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A local lawyer I know, a 50-year-old White male, has applied six times to be a District Court judge but can\u2019t even get an interview, all the appointments go to women and minorities (and a few highly-connected, politically powerful DFLers).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And yet, this lawyer also is convinced DFL policies are the best thing for America because we need to combat centuries of racism and sexism by giving a leg up to women and persons of color.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t see the disconnect between the politics he supports and the results he decries, can\u2019t reconcile that Affirmative Action is the exact opposite of Equal Opportunity, can\u2019t accept that when DFL policies prevail, not only will smart White people like him be passed over for barely qualified minorities, his own kids will be passed over, too.\u00a0 He&#8217;s so used to parroting the Liberal Narrative that he can&#8217;t engage in logical analysis when it comes to the official doctrine, he believes the consequences are what the liberal elitists tell him they are, not what the actual facts demonstrate.\u00a0 And he says I\u2019m an extremist for point it out!<\/p>\n<p>Genocide is when one race kills another.\u00a0 Is there a word for one race committing suicide?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Autogenocide?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Dayton said:\u00a0 \u201cI am conscious of the diversity factor. I am also conscious of the fact that when Justice Wright departs there will be only one woman.\u201d &nbsp; I notice that Hudson is Black and all three are female.\u00a0 No doubt all three are good Liberal Democrats, too. \u00a0For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588","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=54588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54589,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588\/revisions\/54589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}