{"id":84703,"date":"2023-03-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84703"},"modified":"2023-03-20T21:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T02:31:20","slug":"dog-whistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84703","title":{"rendered":"Dog Whistle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We talked last week about Peggy Flanagan&#8217;s absurd take on parenting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here it is again:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1636146393130627079\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She followed up with this photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84704\" width=\"421\" height=\"689\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out that righteous Bowie knife.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are only three interpretations for this symbology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>It was designed by someone who is unfamiliar with American iconography<\/strong>.  If this is the case, wearing the shirt was pretty dang ignorant. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s an incredibly crude and juvenline jape about gender transition surgery<\/strong>:  I&#8217;m throwing up in my mouth a little. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Lieutenant Governor is talking tough<\/strong>:  Y&#8217;know &#8211; saying she&#8217;s going to stab people who transgress to some indistinct degree or another against trans people.  Y&#8217;know &#8211; like Sarah Palin&#8217;s &#8220;crosshairs&#8221;, only with actual intent. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure which it is.  I&#8217;m open to suggestions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of which &#8211; I have four friends that one could classify as transgender.  Two of them are from the &#8220;Armed Trans Don&#8217;t Get Shot&#8221; faction of the Second Amendment movement, whom I could see donning one of these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84705\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-4.png 634w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-4-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of <em> course <\/em>it&#8217;s a photoshop.  Theatrical posturing about stabbing bigots is OK; taking a gun to them, probably not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is a shame, since the gun might actually work.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of which, here&#8217;s the MN Gun Owners Caucus&#8217;s version:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84706\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-5.png 800w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-5-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-5-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-5-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It goes without saying that if a Republican threw a knife or gun reference into a t-shirt on a social issue, it&#8217;d be front page news, with thought-free &#8220;think&#8221; pieces clogging op-ed pages nationwide.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I won&#8217;t say it. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked last week about Peggy Flanagan&#8217;s absurd take on parenting. Here it is again: She followed up with this photo. Check out that righteous Bowie knife. There are only three interpretations for this symbology: Not sure which it is. I&#8217;m open to suggestions. Speaking of which &#8211; I have four friends that one could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,24,421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-crusade","category-culture-war","category-snappy-answers-to-casual-gaslighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84703","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=84703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84707,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84703\/revisions\/84707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}