{"id":76290,"date":"2020-12-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76290"},"modified":"2020-12-27T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T13:32:19","slug":"you-aint-no-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76290","title":{"rendered":"You Ain’t A Human Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dennis Prager has a great line – “Relationships can survive a lot, but no relationship can survive contempt” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When parties can’t see one another as human, forget about reaching common ground on differing ideas and ideals, can there be any point to trying to live together? I wouldn’t work for couples – why would it work for a nation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It dawned on the world too late that when the Nazis actively portrayed the Jews as not very human…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…they meant it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there’s one thing more useful than one eliminationist Nazi cartoon, its’ two. Here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That wasn’t even in German. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was <\/em>the Washington Post<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Christmas Eve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is up there with “bitter, gun-clinging Jeebus freaks” and “Deplorables” and the rest of the litany of conceits Blue America holds on Red America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But most importantly? It’s about contempt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been pointing out examples of Blue America’s contempt for the rest of us in this space since the beginning, really. And if the Trump era has done anything, it’s helped parts of the right come out of their shells (yes, some, like our friend Pete Strunk, haven’t been in <\/em>their shells fir a very long time, but its fair to say Pete’s always been an outlier)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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