{"id":76588,"date":"2021-01-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76588"},"modified":"2021-01-26T08:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:39:42","slug":"bigotry-of-bizarre-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76588","title":{"rendered":"Bigotry Of Bizarre Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kind of a good news, bad news situation here.  But maybe not in the way you think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A teachers union president in Washington State refers to reopening schools as a &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; initiative.<\/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 WA teacher&#39;s union president says reopening schools is an example of &quot;white supremacy,&quot; concern over a child&#39;s mental health or suicide risk is &quot;white privilege,&quot; and push to reopen schools is like rioters pushing to enter the U.S. Capitol.<br><br>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QxFazq2Taz\">https:\/\/t.co\/QxFazq2Taz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ny50MEZG7p\">pic.twitter.com\/ny50MEZG7p<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jason Rantz on Seattle Red (@jasonrantz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonrantz\/status\/1349394394273640448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The good &#8211; or &#8220;good&#8221; &#8211; news:  this is an example of the type of rhetorical, social and policy overreach one can expect when &#8220;progressives&#8221; &#8211; in this case invariably white, middle-class, and visibly &#8220;progressive&#8221; &#8211; find themselves in power.   This statement &#8211; literally, &#8220;wanting your kids back in schools, and wanting some sense of stability and normalcy for their mental health, at a time when teenage suicide is exploding all over the country, is <em>racist<\/em>&#8221; is the very definition of &#8220;2+2=5&#8221; &#8211; mental health is mental illness, concern for kids is a pathology, truth  is lies.     (And the ability to say it without having ones own peers pelt one with rocks and garbage is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63101\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"63101\">Urban Progressive Privilege<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ut another way, evil &#8211; no scare quotes.   Inverting moral truth and moral falsehood is as textbook a definition of venial evil as exists.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the &#8220;good&#8221; news. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news?   About half the country, as this is written, doesn&#8217;t know any better, or just doesn&#8217;t want to think about it that hard.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of a good news, bad news situation here. But maybe not in the way you think. A teachers union president in Washington State refers to reopening schools as a &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; initiative. The good &#8211; or &#8220;good&#8221; &#8211; news: this is an example of the type of rhetorical, social and policy overreach one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,321,24,10,308,426,79,421,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-big-left","category-culture-war","category-education","category-entitled-america","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-slander-files","category-snappy-answers-to-casual-gaslighting","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76588","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=76588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76589,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76588\/revisions\/76589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}