{"id":63813,"date":"2017-07-18T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63813"},"modified":"2017-07-16T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T17:59:02","slug":"ripped-from-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63813","title":{"rendered":"Ripped From Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have a question.<\/p>\n<p>B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m not giving you an answer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why not?<\/p>\n<p>B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because you don\u2019t want to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I do.\u00a0 Why won\u2019t you tell me the answer?<\/p>\n<p>B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because I\u2019m an Old White Male and therefore disqualified from having an opinion, any opinion, about anything whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You don\u2019t even know what the question is.<\/p>\n<p>B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 If I answered it, that would be \u201cmansplaining\u201d which is a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I bet you don\u2019t even know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I do, but it\u2019s not a sensitive and empowering answer; therefore, to protect your feelings so you don\u2019t feel threatened and need to\u00a0 retreat to a safe space, I\u2019m not telling you the answer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You just won\u2019t tell me because I\u2019m a woman\/Black\/gay\/left-handed\/poor\/Muslim.\u00a0 That\u2019s racisssssssssssss.\u00a0 You\u2019re too hateful to be allowed to have an opinion and even if you told me the answer, I wouldn\u2019t listen to it because you\u2019re such a hater.<\/p>\n<p>B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Told you.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might call it fiction.<\/p>\n<p>I call it the Hamline-Midway Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have a question. B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m not giving you an answer. &nbsp; A: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why not? B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because you don\u2019t want to hear it. &nbsp; A:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I do.\u00a0 Why won\u2019t you tell me the answer? B:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because I\u2019m an Old White Male and therefore disqualified [&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":[],"class_list":["post-63813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63813","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=63813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63819,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63813\/revisions\/63819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}