{"id":66182,"date":"2018-03-06T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66182"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:15:00","slug":"its-the-cultural-civil-war-and-were-at-the-battle-of-fredericksburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66182","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The Cultural Civil War, And We&#8217;re At The Battle Of Fredericksburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">College Liberals credited with reaching out,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/what-happened-to-the-campus-republicans-at-carleton-college\/475744303\/\"> attempting to provide safe space, tolerance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two thoughts:<br \/>\nFirst, the lack of outspoken conservatives on campus is not new.\u00a0 When I was in college in 1980, the trend had already begun.\u00a0 I knew of only four of us: me supporting Reagan, Dan (George Bush, Senior), David (Phil Crane) and Matt (uncommitted).\u00a0 There may have been more who voted Republican but they were quiet about it.<br \/>\nSecond, if you smack a puppy on the nose enough times, it will learn not to bark.\u00a0 Young Conservative get smacked on the nose by social studies teachers in high school.\u00a0 They get smacked in college classes by leftist professors.\u00a0 They see others getting smacked online, fired for speaking at work (the Google guy), business destroyed (wedding cake baker), physically attacked and beaten (conservative speakers on campus). The lesson is clear \u2013 Liberals do not respect me or my rights, they tolerate me only so long as I don\u2019t upset them.\u00a0 Say one little thing they don\u2019t like and boom, the mob will turn on me in a flash and blame me for provoking them.\u00a0 &#8220;See what you made me do&#8221; isn&#8217;t an excuse reserved solely for rednecks in wife-beater shirts, it&#8217;s also used by Muslim terrorists and FBI Deep Staters and antifa rioters.<br \/>\nIf a college kid joined up at one of these sessions but later found his car keyed \u201cfascist\u201d would it be a surprise?\u00a0 No, because he outed himself, painted a target on himself, brought it on himself.\u00a0 He deserved it.<br \/>\nThe only way to increase intellectual diversity on campus is to punish those who act to diminish it.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s never going to happen as long as Liberals run the schools.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A safe space &#8220;provided&#8221; by campus &#8220;progressives?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: College Liberals credited with reaching out, attempting to provide safe space, tolerance. Two thoughts: First, the lack of outspoken conservatives on campus is not new.\u00a0 When I was in college in 1980, the trend had already begun.\u00a0 I knew of only four of us: me supporting Reagan, Dan (George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,374],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-66182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice","tag-anti-fa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66182","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=66182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66184,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66182\/revisions\/66184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}