{"id":76145,"date":"2020-12-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76145"},"modified":"2020-12-17T05:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T11:55:20","slug":"priorities-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76145","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t really like having police departments barricaded. But, I understand it. I look at [Saint Paul city councilwoman] Nelsie Yang&#8217;s post and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/112581986856308\/posts\/394538525327318\/\">I really don&#8217;t see a lot of support for her demand<\/a> that the barricade be torn down, especially from non-White constituents, the very people she claims to be supporting in this action-<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To social justice warriors like Yang and, let&#8217;s be honest, most of the Saint Paul and the entire Minneapolis City Councils, &#8220;social justice&#8221; with all its intellectual and political trappings is an abstract, academic concept that has little to do with the lives of their constituents &#8211; or at least the ones not employed in non-profits and academic humanities and soft science departments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rarely do people like Yang allow themselves to come into contact with the real life concerns of those they &#8220;represent&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they do?  It&#8217;s entertaining, at least. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: I don&#8217;t really like having police departments barricaded. But, I understand it. I look at [Saint Paul city councilwoman] Nelsie Yang&#8217;s post and I really don&#8217;t see a lot of support for her demand that the barricade be torn down, especially from non-White constituents, the very people she claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,374,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-social-justice","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76145","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=76145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76146,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76145\/revisions\/76146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}