{"id":57934,"date":"2016-03-10T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57934"},"modified":"2016-03-09T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T04:23:56","slug":"urban-liberal-privilege-enough-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57934","title":{"rendered":"Urban Liberal Privilege:  Enough Is Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul&#8217;s social justice mafia is baying for blood again.<\/p>\n<p>A Saint Paul teacher, Theo Olson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/101968626-story\">made a perfectly legitimate observation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/screenshot-www.fox9_.com-2016-03-09-22-13-04.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57935 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/screenshot-www.fox9_.com-2016-03-09-22-13-04.png\" alt=\"screenshot-www.fox9.com 2016-03-09 22-13-04\" width=\"263\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; of Saint Paul is threatening to &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; &#8220;close down&#8221; Como High School over the posting.<\/p>\n<p>(Note to BLM; if you are a one trick pony, eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/threat-to-shut-down-crashed-ice-hurts-black-lives-matter-s-cause\/368684481\/\">people get bored with that one trick<\/a>. \u00a0It might pay to learn a new one. \u00a0Just saying).<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;ve read this blog, you know I&#8217;m no huge fan of the public school system. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30\">I&#8217;ve got my reasons<\/a>. \u00a0I don&#8217;t cut public schools, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52088\">least of all the SPPS<\/a>, a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=662\">lot of slack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Olson&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>And this is another example of a particularly ugly form of anti-intellectual know-nothingism that&#8217;s sweeping &#8221; progressive&#8221; circles in &#8220;progressive&#8221; cesspools like Saint Paul; shaming and attacking and calling &#8220;racist&#8221; the very act of\u00a0<em>questioning\u00a0<\/em>BLM.<\/p>\n<p>For any reason!<\/p>\n<p>At all!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the SPPS&#8217; leadership will be too pusillanimous to react as it should. \u00a0It&#8217;s sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49419\">baked into their organizational DNA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul&#8217;s social justice mafia is baying for blood again. A Saint Paul teacher, Theo Olson, made a perfectly legitimate observation: &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; of Saint Paul is threatening to &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; &#8220;close down&#8221; Como High School over the posting. (Note to BLM; if you are a one trick pony, eventually people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57934","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=57934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57936,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57934\/revisions\/57936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}