{"id":57364,"date":"2016-02-01T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57364"},"modified":"2016-02-01T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:15:24","slug":"urban-liberal-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57364","title":{"rendered":"Urban Liberal Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the talk about &#8220;White Privilege&#8221;, there is a much bigger, much more powerful form of privilege in our society; the privilege of belonging to the urban liberal establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Williamson has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/430537\/melissa-click-university-missouri-assault-tenure-veterans-affairs\">dossier<\/a> on the slice (and it&#8217;s a large, non-diet-friendly slice) of that sector that works for government, and government academia. \u00a0There&#8217;s far too much to quote. \u00a0The conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For all the talk about \u201cprivilege,\u201d this is a much more familiar phenomenon: This is what it means to have a ruling class.<\/p>\n<p>And it cannot be repeated often enough: We are ruled by criminals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But read the whole thing. \u00a0You&#8217;re not angry enough yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the talk about &#8220;White Privilege&#8221;, there is a much bigger, much more powerful form of privilege in our society; the privilege of belonging to the urban liberal establishment. Kevin Williamson has a dossier on the slice (and it&#8217;s a large, non-diet-friendly slice) of that sector that works for government, and government academia. \u00a0There&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-57364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57364","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=57364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57365,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57364\/revisions\/57365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}