{"id":71442,"date":"2019-06-04T06:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71442"},"modified":"2019-06-04T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:05:21","slug":"snowflake-goes-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71442","title":{"rendered":"Snowflake Goes To Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This epi of &#8220;Marketplace&#8221; &#8211; or, more specifically, its A-line feature on workplaces catering to (liberal) peoples&#8217; politics &#8211; may have been one of the most depressing things I&#8217;ve heard lately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It starts at 17:36. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"mp_179257\" title=\"Marketplace Embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/shows\/marketplace\/tight-labor-market-business-is-becoming-personal\/popout\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"240px\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The unstated coda to the piece:  &#8220;progressive&#8221; America wants to &#8220;other&#8221; all dissent out of every aspect of life.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just left a contract at a group that was less obnoxious about it than the preening virtue-signalers in the Marketplace piece &#8211; but not, I suspect, out of lack of wanting to be.   And it got me thinking &#8211; for all the talk about &#8220;tribalism&#8221; &#8211; usually from the left, aimed at the likes of Trump supporters and Tea Partiers &#8211; it&#8217;s Big Left that really takes this stuff seriously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This epi of &#8220;Marketplace&#8221; &#8211; or, more specifically, its A-line feature on workplaces catering to (liberal) peoples&#8217; politics &#8211; may have been one of the most depressing things I&#8217;ve heard lately. It starts at 17:36. The unstated coda to the piece: &#8220;progressive&#8221; America wants to &#8220;other&#8221; all dissent out of every aspect of life. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,24,308,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71442","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=71442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71443,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71442\/revisions\/71443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}