{"id":72544,"date":"2019-10-31T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72544"},"modified":"2019-10-31T06:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T11:07:01","slug":"some-people-did-something-to-some-armenians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72544","title":{"rendered":"Some People Did Something To Some Armenians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ilhan Omar votes &#8220;present&#8221; on a resolution recognizing Turkey&#8217;s genocide of Armenians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in her statement about that decision, she appears to have learned her rhetorical skills from leaving comments in the Star-Tribune comment section:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1370\" height=\"516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_0176.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72543\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_0176.png 1370w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_0176-300x113.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_0176-768x289.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_0176-1024x386.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_0176-500x188.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1370px) 100vw, 1370px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Put another way &#8211; &#8220;the resolution&#8217;s silence about other genocides &#8211; mostly the ones involving the US, the country that welcomed me to it &#8211; <em>speaks volumes<\/em>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if accounting for genocide is &#8220;Paramount&#8221;, then what&#8217;s &#8220;academic consensus&#8221; got to do with it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we did &#8220;acknowledge&#8221; the slave trade, Rep. Omar: with the bloodiest war in our country&#8217;s history.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note to Tom Emmer<\/strong>:  Write a resolution condemning the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide.  See what she does. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilhan Omar votes &#8220;present&#8221; on a resolution recognizing Turkey&#8217;s genocide of Armenians. And in her statement about that decision, she appears to have learned her rhetorical skills from leaving comments in the Star-Tribune comment section: Put another way &#8211; &#8220;the resolution&#8217;s silence about other genocides &#8211; mostly the ones involving the US, the country that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-72544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-pc","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72544","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=72544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72549,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72544\/revisions\/72549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}