{"id":83924,"date":"2022-11-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83924"},"modified":"2022-11-20T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:47:32","slug":"thoughtcrime-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83924","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtcrime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shooting at an LGBTQetcetc club in Colorado over the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the perp was apparently “on the radar”<\/a> (in a state where the progressive prosecutor ensures there are no consequences for being there), expect this atrocity to be used less for gun control and more to demonize any criticism of LGBTQetcetc activism of any kind in any place – pushing the notion of “stochastic terrorism”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cStochastic terrorism\u201d is just a silly concept that dovetails with \u201cwords are violence\u201d and opens the gate for any favored group to shut down all debate because the very existence of the debate will drive people to violence. Of course, no one, at least no sane people, believes it exists, but it is a handy cudgel with which you can belabor your opponents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“If you say you disagree with me, it must be because you want me dead”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s how society gets to Orwell’s “Duckspeak” – when it becomes impossible to commicate in any but the most innocuous terms without fear of some <\/em>consequences, rational or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard to live in a civil society with that hanging over every social question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shooting at an LGBTQetcetc club in Colorado over the weekend. While the perp was apparently “on the radar” (in a state where the progressive prosecutor ensures there are no consequences for being there), expect this atrocity to be used less for gun control and more to demonize any criticism of LGBTQetcetc activism of any kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83924","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=83924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83925,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83924\/revisions\/83925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}