{"id":76978,"date":"2021-02-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76978"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:01:41","slug":"residual-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76978","title":{"rendered":"Residual Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Ben Shapiro’s Sunday interview with Gina Carano that I linked yesterday, there were several passages that resonated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One in particular:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would go to a barbecue on the beach in California, and all these people would go [switches to sotto voce] “Hey, I agree with you. Messed up, isn’t it?”. <\/p>

And I’d be…’This is your house. Why are you whispering?'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It reminded me of another episode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was talking with a couple of reps from a metro media organization – TV, newspaper, it matters not. And when one of the representatives and I had a moment without the others around, that person swiveled their head around to make sure nobody was listening, and whispered to me “Don’t tell anyone I said this, but I love [the NARN]. I’m on you guys side. I just have to keep quiet about it”. <\/em>I felt a little like a reporting working in East Berlin or Warsaw in 1974, getting a <\/em> furtive, samizdat <\/em>note from a local that the Stasi <\/em>or ZOMO <\/em>wouldn’t be able to trace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was over a decade ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think of this because it is now in vogue<\/a> for lefties to tell people “there is no such thing as cancel culture<\/em>. There’s just consequences for actions”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right. And that “action” is “dissenting from the progressive worldview in public”. No more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Ben Shapiro’s Sunday interview with Gina Carano that I linked yesterday, there were several passages that resonated. One in particular: I would go to a barbecue on the beach in California, and all these people would go [switches to sotto voce] “Hey, I agree with you. Messed up, isn’t it?”. And I’d be…’This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978","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=76978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76980,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76978\/revisions\/76980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}