{"id":65379,"date":"2017-12-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65379"},"modified":"2017-12-09T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:34:56","slug":"notme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65379","title":{"rendered":"#NotMe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>#metoo is the Twitter hashtag for people who want to join the parade of victims of sexual harassment \u2013 women, men, other; everyone can join.\u00a0 And it\u2019s been amazingly effective at bringing down very rich and powerful men in Hollywood, the media and politics.<\/p>\n<p>The same people who celebrate the success of #metoo insist all cultures are equal, but is that really so?\u00a0 Do we believe the female and homosexual sexual harassment victims participating in the #metoo campaign would have had identical success in, say, Iran?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Movements like that can&#8217;t exist in a place that isn&#8217;t fundamentally wired to accept them, convenient or not.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the story Dinesh D&#8217;Souza wrote about his high school history teacher in India, who noted that had Mathama Gandhi lived under HItler, rather than the very liberal (by comparison) British colonial system, &#8220;he&#8217;d have ended up as a lampshade&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;Iran?\u00a0 Try Japan, or China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: #metoo is the Twitter hashtag for people who want to join the parade of victims of sexual harassment \u2013 women, men, other; everyone can join.\u00a0 And it\u2019s been amazingly effective at bringing down very rich and powerful men in Hollywood, the media and politics. The same people who celebrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65379","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=65379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65385,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65379\/revisions\/65385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}