{"id":57683,"date":"2016-02-22T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57683"},"modified":"2017-04-21T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:38:15","slug":"defining-hate-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57683","title":{"rendered":"Defining Hate Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bad news: Shot In The Dark failed to make the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hate-map\">list of hate groups<\/a> again this year.<\/p>\n<p>There are only six hate groups in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>A chapter of the KKK somewhere Up North.\u00a0 Not sure how they found them, I never heard of them.<\/p>\n<p>Vinlanders Social Club, a racist skinhead outfit in Vinlanders, Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>A Christian preacher in Annandale who preaches that homosexuality is wrong.<em> \u00a0[I bet that&#8217;s Bradlee Dean &#8211; Ed]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Remnant Press, a traditional Catholic publisher in Forest Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, a black separatist church in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Weisman Publications in Apple Valley, Christian Identity, whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we concede that the KKK and racist skinheads are hate groups, so what?\u00a0 Hate speech is constitutional in Minnesota, has been since the St. Paul cross-burning case.<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s up with calling the others haters, simply because they\u2019re Christians of one stripe or another?<\/p>\n<p>This looks like nothing more than a list of \u201cpeople we don\u2019t agree with and wish to silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what you need to do to amp up the hate around here so you can get yourself noticed, Mitch.\u00a0 But there\u2019s one consolation \u2013 Powerline didn\u2019t make it, either.<\/p>\n<p>Always next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The potatoes seem so small, we&#8217;d call them &#8220;popcorn&#8221; where I come from.<\/p>\n<p>But with\u00a0the SPLC &#8211; which is sort of the\u00a0<em>curia\u00a0<\/em>of the Social Justice Warrior community &#8211; there&#8217;s always a next year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m frankly more worried SITD will be considered a terrorist outfit than a hate group. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4594\">It seems pretty likely<\/a>, with another Democrat administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Bad news: Shot In The Dark failed to make the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s list of hate groups again this year. There are only six hate groups in Minnesota. A chapter of the KKK somewhere Up North.\u00a0 Not sure how they found them, I never heard of them. Vinlanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,18,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-pc","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57683","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=57683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57684,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57683\/revisions\/57684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}