{"id":58899,"date":"2016-05-25T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58899"},"modified":"2016-05-24T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:17:49","slug":"profiles-in-gutlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58899","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Their Safe Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faux Feminist “writer” Lindy West blocks conservatives wholesale on Twitter.<\/p>\n

How wholesale?<\/p>\n

Even lowly little me, Mitch Berg, from the far frontiers of conservatism, am blocked.<\/p>\n

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I actually feel pretty jazzed about that. \u00a0Although I shouldn’t; West likely uses some sort of online ‘bot or another to block\u00a0every\u00a0<\/em>account that references conservatism or libertarianism.<\/p>\n

I guess I’m not that special after all.<\/p>\n

It’s actually a sign of deep intellectual vapidity – being completely unwilling to deal with any form of dissent. \u00a0And it’s pretty much the norm on the American left’s social media. \u00a0Go ahead – try to leave a question with any leftist on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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The account should be named “OnlyCertainPeople4Alondra”.<\/p><\/div>\n

Or Facebook.<\/p>\n

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I got banned from Rep. Norton’s page after asking her to come on my show to discuss her legislation.<\/p><\/div>\n

Or on their blog, Youtube channel, Snapchat…<\/p>\n

They want the whole world to be their safe space – or at least the only parts of the world they let near them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faux Feminist “writer” Lindy West blocks conservatives wholesale on Twitter. How wholesale? Even lowly little me, Mitch Berg, from the far frontiers of conservatism, am blocked. I actually feel pretty jazzed about that. \u00a0Although I shouldn’t; West likely uses some sort of online ‘bot or another to block\u00a0every\u00a0account that references conservatism or libertarianism. I guess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,337,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-privilege","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58899","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=58899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58907,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58899\/revisions\/58907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}