{"id":79690,"date":"2021-10-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79690"},"modified":"2021-10-08T06:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:29:49","slug":"a-rohrschach-blob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79690","title":{"rendered":"A Rohrschach Blob"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>The recent school shooting in Arlington Texas was all things to all people.<\/p><p>To \u201cprogressive\u201c, it was a sign that \u201cgun violence\u201c was still a huge bogeyman.To some fairly reductionist people on what is sometimes called \u201cthe right\u201c, the news that the shooter was a black teenager, especially after a video of a chillingly violent altercation in a classroom that was said to have led up to the episode, confirmed a raft of biases about black teens, public schools and the possibility of rehabilitating violent teenage boys. Which, it was assumed, the shooter was.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To others, it was yet another sign that the law enforcement system had failed to put a repeat offender in jail, allowing him to continue to predate on society. Although to be fair, coming from people in the Twin Cities,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70856\">the story may be a lot more complicated than that,<\/a> and that nobody had \u201cwealthy black kid from a loving home, who has been bullied and robbed for being fairly well to do, shooting in self-defense\u201c on their Urban juvenile crime bingo card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70856\">Berg\u2018s 18th Law is called a Law for a reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent school shooting in Arlington Texas was all things to all people. To \u201cprogressive\u201c, it was a sign that \u201cgun violence\u201c was still a huge bogeyman.To some fairly reductionist people on what is sometimes called \u201cthe right\u201c, the news that the shooter was a black teenager, especially after a video of a chillingly violent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-79690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-education","tag-bergs-18th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79690","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=79690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79696,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79690\/revisions\/79696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}