{"id":79646,"date":"2021-10-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79646"},"modified":"2021-10-04T07:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:17:03","slug":"urban-progressive-privilege-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79646","title":{"rendered":"Urban Progressive Privilege:  Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the most futile memes in the conservative alternative media is &#8220;If this were happening to (fill in a democrat, or Democrats), this would he treated as a hate crime&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s futile because the people who care have no power, and the people in power don&#8217;t care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still and all, it applies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A protester &#8211; inoculated from blame in some quarters by being an &#8220;immigrant youth&#8221; &#8211; followed Kristen Sinema into a rest room at Arizona State (where SInema teaches) to&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, badger her:<\/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\">Protesters followed Sen. Sinema into the bathroom at Arizona State University to confront her on Build Back Better and immigration <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NDSmeu0h2M\">pic.twitter.com\/NDSmeu0h2M<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeneps\/status\/1444737615924707331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And while the meme is threadbare, the fact remains &#8211; if anyone were to do this to Ilhan Omar or Tide Pod Evita, this would be treated by the media as a hate crime, accompanied by &#8220;think&#8221;Pieces about the vanishing of civility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most futile memes in the conservative alternative media is &#8220;If this were happening to (fill in a democrat, or Democrats), this would he treated as a hate crime&#8221;. It&#8217;s futile because the people who care have no power, and the people in power don&#8217;t care. Still and all, it applies. A protester [&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-79646","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\/79646","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=79646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79647,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79646\/revisions\/79647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}