{"id":75326,"date":"2020-09-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75326"},"modified":"2020-09-12T18:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T23:27:53","slug":"lifeboat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75326","title":{"rendered":"Lifeboat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A lifeboat floating in the ocean has a limited carrying capacity.\u00a0 This<br>many people &#8211; we all survive; add one more &#8211; the lifeboat sinks and we<br>all die.\u00a0 And if somebody in the lifeboat is actively trying to chop a<br>hole in the bottom of the boat, we throw her out to save our own necks.<\/p><p>What&#8217;s the carrying capacity of a nation? When do we start throwing<br>people out?<\/p><p>Yes, we can too ask that question.\u00a0 It&#8217;s happened time and again, when<br>nations realized their existence was in danger from certain groups. No,<br>I&#8217;m not talking about the Nazis so send Godwin back to his closet.\u00a0 I&#8217;m<br>talking about Ferdinand and Isabella expelling the Jews and later the<br>Muslims;\u00a0 Idi Amin expelling the Indians (dot, not feather); Ahmose 1<br>expelling the Caananites; everybody expelling the Roma (Gypsies).<\/p><p>We&#8217;re told that multiculturalism is inevitable and desirable, that all<br>cultures are equally valid and will play nice together. Are we seeing<br>that in America this summer?\u00a0 Note well &#8211; this is not a race issue.\u00a0<br>There are people of all races on both sides of the &#8220;burn it all down&#8221;<br>movement.\u00a0 This is a different issue, a philosophical issue, a point of<br>view, a belief about how society should be ordered.\u00a0 In Antifa culture,<br>it is acceptable to do X, Y and Z to The Other because They deserve it.\u00a0<br>Can American culture survive that?<\/p><p>Insisting that law and order comes from a place of white privilege will<br>drive the nation to collective suicide.\u00a0 I thought we decided against that?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A century of unparalleled wealth has convinced a lot of people &#8211; even self-styled critics of the system, like the putative revolutionaries of The Squad &#8211;  that we&#8217;ve repealed the laws of human nature.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifeboat floating in the ocean has a limited carrying capacity.\u00a0 Thismany people &#8211; we all survive; add one more &#8211; the lifeboat sinks and weall die.\u00a0 And if somebody in the lifeboat is actively trying to chop ahole in the bottom of the boat, we throw her out to save our own necks. What&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75326","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=75326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75331,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75326\/revisions\/75331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}