{"id":70279,"date":"2019-03-19T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70279"},"modified":"2019-03-18T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T01:45:01","slug":"an-honest-browbeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70279","title":{"rendered":"An Honest Browbeating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Kamala Harris, candidate for President, says the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/kamala-harris-says-america-hasnt-yet-had-an-honest-conversation-about-race\/\">still hasn&#8217;t had an honest discussion about race<\/a>.<br>Well, Kamala, that&#8217;s because &#8220;discussion&#8221; means &#8220;two people talk,&#8221; not just &#8220;you lecture me.&#8221;\u00a0 The word comes from a Latin root meaning &#8220;to take apart, to examine.&#8221;\u00a0 We can&#8217;t have a discussion if every time I try to speak, you silence me with a label like &#8220;Racist.&#8221;<br>Oh, crap, what that mansplaining?\u00a0 I guess I&#8217;d better shut up while you explain why I&#8217;m wrong about that, too.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We need a conversation about why you&#8217;re evil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris, candidate for President, says the United States still hasn&#8217;t had an honest discussion about race.Well, Kamala, that&#8217;s because &#8220;discussion&#8221; means &#8220;two people talk,&#8221; not just &#8220;you lecture me.&#8221;\u00a0 The word comes from a Latin root meaning &#8220;to take apart, to examine.&#8221;\u00a0 We can&#8217;t have a discussion if every time I try to speak, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70279","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=70279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70280,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70279\/revisions\/70280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}