{"id":71513,"date":"2019-06-11T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71513"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:17:36","slug":"march-of-the-strawmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71513","title":{"rendered":"March Of The Strawmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekened, I listened to “It’s Been a Minute” with Sam Sanders – one of NPR’s many mad grabs for virtue-seeking relevance – and I heard a bit that simultaneously nauseated and thrilled me.<\/p>\n

It’s at about 17:00 into this week’s broadcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But don’t worry – I listened to it, so you don’t have to.<\/p>\n

Big Left is finding it necessary to rescue, reclaim and rehabilitate the word “Intersectionality”.<\/p>\n

I thought about transcribing some quotes – but I’ll just leave it to y’all.<\/p>\n

Because this is the sound of Big Left launching a counter-counter-attack in the culture war and the Battle for the Language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the weekened, I listened to “It’s Been a Minute” with Sam Sanders – one of NPR’s many mad grabs for virtue-seeking relevance – and I heard a bit that simultaneously nauseated and thrilled me. It’s at about 17:00 into this week’s broadcast. But don’t worry – I listened to it, so you don’t have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-for-the-language","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71513","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=71513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71519,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71513\/revisions\/71519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}