{"id":74395,"date":"2020-06-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74395"},"modified":"2020-06-10T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:20:43","slug":"canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74395","title":{"rendered":"Items For The “Cancel” Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking out of the local Korean joint with a container of Galbi. As he’s committing to going out the door, MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio\u2019s Saint Paul bureau, covering the \u201cFake News\u201d and \u201cDiversity\u201d beats.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: Mister Berg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Er, hi, Ms. Silberman. What’s new? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: Not much time for small talk. I’m doing a story about cancel culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: You mean, about how the titans of the progressive media, the Guardian, have their roots in laissez faire <\/em>policies regarding slavery and the future of the American union during the civil war<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: No, no. I’m looking for examples in the world of politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: You mean like the town in Alabama whose entire base of wealth was built on the products of slavery, but posits itself as a bastion of “progressive” thought today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: Alabama?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Yuuup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: Go ahead. I’m listening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: This town in Alabama built its entire civic wealth between 1815 and 1865 on textiles – an industry based on slave-produced cotton – and tobacco, which was…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: …raised by slaves. Yes. Yes. Keep going. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: And they voted for the Democrat, pro-slavery candidates for President, in 1860 and 1864. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: I already hate them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: And then, when the Civil War was well underway, they undertook a pogrom against not only blacks – whom they blamed for the war, and for the economic hardships the war brought them – but against whites that supported abolition, destroying their businesses in an epic riot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: Perfect. Probably fundamentalist Christianists to boot. These people need canceling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: I’ll say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: What town in Alabama?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: It was…wait, did I say Alabama?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: You did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: My bad. It was New York City. Your hometown, if I recall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: (Stands, stunned<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: You’ve been canceled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: (Jaw flaps, but no sound comes out<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: Try the dok buk uhm<\/em>. It’s divine. (BERG walks out<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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