{"id":79952,"date":"2021-11-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79952"},"modified":"2021-11-07T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:20:27","slug":"when-progressives-ask-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79952","title":{"rendered":"When &#8220;Progressives&#8221; Ask Me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Mitch, why do you keep saying that media attention to &#8216;white supremacy&#8217; is just a diversion tactic, a political cudgel with which to beat down, bully and shame dissent, with otherwise no substance whatsoever?&#8221;, I respond &#8220;because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-lincoln-project-sees-charlottesville-as-just-another-political-button-to-press\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=featured-content-trending&amp;utm_term=first\">that&#8217;s exactly how your side treats it<\/a>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Mitch, why do you keep saying that media attention to &#8216;white supremacy&#8217; is just a diversion tactic, a political cudgel with which to beat down, bully and shame dissent, with otherwise no substance whatsoever?&#8221;, I respond &#8220;because that&#8217;s exactly how your side treats it&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,54],"tags":[407],"class_list":["post-79952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-ebony-and-ivory","tag-white-supremacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952","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=79952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79953,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952\/revisions\/79953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}