{"id":82893,"date":"2022-07-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82893"},"modified":"2022-07-21T05:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T10:10:33","slug":"rage-for-the-machine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82893","title":{"rendered":"Rage For The Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>The woke mob told the First Avenue \u201cJump!\u201c.First Avenue replied \u201coff what\u201c?\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Avenue buckled under the attack from the Woke Mob late in the day yesterday, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82857\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"82857\">punted on the Dave Chapelle<\/a> show:<\/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\">We hear you. Tonight\u2019s show has been cancelled at First Avenue and is moving to the Varsity Theater. See our full statement for more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tkf7rz0cc7\">pic.twitter.com\/tkf7rz0cc7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; First Avenue (@FirstAvenue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirstAvenue\/status\/1549866287572160512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The media coverage is, as always, shameful:<\/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\">Following community backlash, First Avenue has cancelled Dave Chappelle&#39;s comedy show tonight. Instead, he&#39;ll perform at the Varsity Theater, which was already set to host the controversial comedian on Thursday and Friday.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xvLOJUqNLN\">https:\/\/t.co\/xvLOJUqNLN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KARE 11 (@kare11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kare11\/status\/1549878154935898112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The community&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, <em>one <\/em>community:<\/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\">.<br>Pics from a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UMN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UMN<\/a> student.<br><br>Protesters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/52UdbZcYtY\">pic.twitter.com\/52UdbZcYtY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimeWatchMpls\/status\/1549971786644815872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Read the entire thread, which details the story of one particularly hideous woman assaulting someone in line at the Varsity. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like a raggedy little line of 24 White, Overschooled, Middle Class, Progressive White Activists (WOMPWAs), not a &#8220;community&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Remember in the 1980s, when the left used to yuck it up over the purported censoriousness of <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>the \u201cParents Music Resource Council\u201d, with the record labeling and other (in hindsight very mild) public moralizing?The left has become Tipper Gore.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woke mob told the First Avenue \u201cJump!\u201c.First Avenue replied \u201coff what\u201c?\u201d First Avenue buckled under the attack from the Woke Mob late in the day yesterday, and punted on the Dave Chapelle show: The media coverage is, as always, shameful: &#8220;The community&#8221; Well, one community: Looks like a raggedy little line of 24 White, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82893","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=82893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82900,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82893\/revisions\/82900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}