{"id":80018,"date":"2021-11-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80018"},"modified":"2021-11-12T08:53:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:53:05","slug":"something-tells-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80018","title":{"rendered":"Something Tells Me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;that Duke Ellington HIgh School in Georgetown, DC is going to regard this as a, er, <em>tactical error<\/em>; they&#8217;ve canceled a fundraiser involving one of their alums, Dave&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;er, let me try that again&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAVE FREAKING CHAPPELLE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/dave-chappelles-alma-mater-cancels-fundraiser-with-the-comedian-over-student-backlash\/\">because transgender<\/a>::<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The students said they were uncomfortable supporting Chappelle because many of their classmates identify as LGBTQ+. In his new Netflix special,\u00a0<em>The Closer,\u00a0<\/em>the comedian compares being transgender to wearing blackface, says \u201cgender is a fact\u201d and says that he\u2019s a member of \u201cteam TERF,\u201d meaning \u201ctrans-exclusionary radical feminists.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;m around in 30 years to see what comedians say about this era.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that Duke Ellington HIgh School in Georgetown, DC is going to regard this as a, er, tactical error; they&#8217;ve canceled a fundraiser involving one of their alums, Dave&#8230; &#8230;er, let me try that again&#8230; DAVE FREAKING CHAPPELLE &#8230; because transgender:: The students said they were uncomfortable supporting Chappelle because many of their classmates identify as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80018","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=80018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80019,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80018\/revisions\/80019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}