{"id":83008,"date":"2022-08-03T06:37:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83008"},"modified":"2022-08-03T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:19:50","slug":"as-the-kids-get-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83008","title":{"rendered":"As The Kids Get Ready\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026 for another year of school, their teachers are getting ready as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/mea_fire\/status\/1554625145217630210?s=21&#038;t=BMzRV3oLcY-O2qQgcZkt6g\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInterrupting whiteness\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, here\u2019s a little dirty little secret of mine; I can and do ignore people who create new adjectives by adding \u201c\u2013ness\u201d to the ends of nouns, willy-nilly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I first started hearing \u201cprogressive\u201c activists jabbering about \u201cwhiteness\u201c a few years back, I got to confess, I ignored it.  The idea that there is some essential, internal racial trait that unifies a term that covers Armenians and Norwegians, or Italians and Irish, is the kind of laughable absurdity you get from\u2026 Well, racists who are trying to pound facts into shape to fit is theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s always hard to pick which leftist pathology to ignore, and which to take seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, looking at the \u201ccrowd\u201c in this photo, I\u2019m not sure I would take them \u201cseriously\u201c if they weren\u2019t all intimately involved in teaching the children of whatever parents weren\u2019t smart enough to get them out of the Minneapolis Public schools\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 for another year of school, their teachers are getting ready as well: \u201cInterrupting whiteness\u201c Now, here\u2019s a little dirty little secret of mine; I can and do ignore people who create new adjectives by adding \u201c\u2013ness\u201d to the ends of nouns, willy-nilly. When I first started hearing \u201cprogressive\u201c activists jabbering about \u201cwhiteness\u201c a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,414,309,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-identity-first","category-indoctrinate-u","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008","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=83008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83010,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008\/revisions\/83010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}