{"id":76548,"date":"2021-01-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76548"},"modified":"2021-01-25T05:55:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T11:55:03","slug":"open-letter-to-a-wide-swath-of-liberal-and-progressive-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76548","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To &#8220;A Wide Swath Of Liberal And Progressive Organizations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  The above-mentioned Swath<br>From:  Mitch Berg, irascible, deplorable peasant<br>Re:  Your Offensive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but notice this from (where else) NPR the other day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A wide swath of liberal and progressive organizations that sprung up during the Trump administration are facing the question of how to go from defense to offense. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hr79Fb4u6n\">https:\/\/t.co\/hr79Fb4u6n<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nprpolitics\/status\/1352676166138789888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, I can help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For starters, you can beg for forgiveness for having appropriated a bit of culture &#8211; the term &#8220;Resistance&#8221; &#8211; you never earned.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For starters, you were a bunch of entitled, white, upper-middle-class plush-bottom yoonoos whose &#8220;resistance&#8221; involved posting irate Instagram selfies while running between your morning frappuccino and  your Pilates class, appropriating a term that people who fought against <em>real <\/em>Nazis, who risked their lives and those of their families and friends during a war in which millions like them vanished without a trace.   My contempt for y our self-aggrandizing drama should be apparent on this count alone &#8211; but if you&#8217;d like, I can be clearer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond that?  Calling yourself a &#8220;resistance&#8221; is a little like Colin Kaepernick pleading &#8220;oppression&#8221; between meeting with his financial planner and running to a CNN interview.  <em>You people are part of the class that controlled much of the most powerful parts of society <\/em> &#8211; the media, the bureaucracy, the educational-industrial complex&#8230;NPR, for that matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The above-mentioned SwathFrom: Mitch Berg, irascible, deplorable peasantRe: Your Offensive I couldn&#8217;t help but notice this from (where else) NPR the other day: Oh, I can help. For starters, you can beg for forgiveness for having appropriated a bit of culture &#8211; the term &#8220;Resistance&#8221; &#8211; you never earned. For starters, you were a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76548","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=76548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76570,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76548\/revisions\/76570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}