{"id":77164,"date":"2021-03-12T06:48:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77164"},"modified":"2021-03-12T06:48:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:48:13","slug":"more-victims-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77164","title":{"rendered":"More Victims Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2021\/03\/04\/effort-to-replace-mpd-moves-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Minneapolis pushing ahead to eliminate cops<\/a>.\u00a0 Look at the photo to see who&#8217;s pushing the issue.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Do any of those people look like they live in Hawthorne or Phillips?\u00a0 Any of them look like they&#8217;ll be affected when cops stop patrolling dangerous neighborhoods?\u00a0<\/p><p>Looks more like White people from affluent neighborhoods telling the city council what&#8217;s good for Black people living in desperate neighborhoods.\u00a0 &#8220;Pull the cops out of those bad neighborhoods, leave the Black people to die.&#8221;<\/p><p>In the olden days, instead of wearing backpacks and carrying signs, they&#8217;d have been wearing sheets and carrying torches.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Left always sells class conflict as cultural conflict.  Today&#8217;s cultural conflict is racial.  But behind it, always, is affluent honkeys with (at best) white liberal guilt and, otherwise, the kind of cynicism that is dripping from every pore of the American ruling class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urban Progressive Privilege includes being reasonably certain that none of the policies you promote for <em>other <\/em>people will ever <em>really <\/em>affect you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis pushing ahead to eliminate cops.\u00a0 Look at the photo to see who&#8217;s pushing the issue.\u00a0 Do any of those people look like they live in Hawthorne or Phillips?\u00a0 Any of them look like they&#8217;ll be affected when cops stop patrolling dangerous neighborhoods?\u00a0 Looks more like White people from affluent neighborhoods telling the city council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77164","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=77164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77165,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77164\/revisions\/77165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}