{"id":66252,"date":"2018-03-13T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66252"},"modified":"2018-03-10T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T01:13:45","slug":"orwell-was-a-pollyanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66252","title":{"rendered":"Orwell Was A Pollyanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progs at Evergreen State (but I repeat myself) equate science and white supremacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, some graffiti was spotted on campus that sought to couterpose intersectionality and the sciences, equating the latter with white supremacy. Facilities staff have completed the chore of cleaning up the graffiti.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bret Weinstein &#8211; the former ESU bio prof who became a national symbol for the intolerant left, had a riposte:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">George,<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvergreenStCol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EvergreenStCol<\/a> riots, students of color were chastised as traitors for studying science, science faculty were hunted, and you ordered campus police to stay out of it. Don&#8217;t pretend this graffiti is surprising. These are your chickens, home to roost.<\/p>\n<p>Bret <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A1hLaVOTt9\">pic.twitter.com\/A1hLaVOTt9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BretWeinstein\/status\/972258053935386624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Remember this Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law violation next time some liberal bobblehead coos that the left is the party of science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progs at Evergreen State (but I repeat myself) equate science and white supremacy: Earlier this week, some graffiti was spotted on campus that sought to couterpose intersectionality and the sciences, equating the latter with white supremacy. Facilities staff have completed the chore of cleaning up the graffiti. Bret Weinstein &#8211; the former ESU bio prof [&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],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-66252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66252","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=66252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66253,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66252\/revisions\/66253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}