{"id":84784,"date":"2023-03-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84784"},"modified":"2023-03-27T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:27:45","slug":"the-h-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84784","title":{"rendered":"The H Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE.  Mitch BERG is in his muddy driveway, replacing a taillight on his truck.  Avery LIBRELLE, happily inspecting the contents of peoples recycling bins for violations, sees him, and saunters over before BERG notices. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE: :Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: Uh&#8230;hey&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:   I read your bit on Watler Hudson&#8217;s hateful speech calling for genocide against trans children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  If you&#8217;re down to nothing but lies, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve got anything to talk about&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Shut up.  You are motivated by pure hate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Saying those who disagree with you on *policy* issues act out of &#8220;hate&#8221; is the mark of a dolt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t flatter yourself. I won&#8217;t risk corroding my soul wasting hate on those who disagree with me. I love those who differ from me &#8211; including transgender people &#8211; as my savior said to love my fellow imperfect human. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hate? Get over yourself.  If you thought it before, you were delusoional.  If you believe it now, you&#8217;re manipulative, gaslighting human garbage.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Oooh.  You&#8217;re melting down.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Maybe if I splashed water on you, you would. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE. Mitch BERG is in his muddy driveway, replacing a taillight on his truck. Avery LIBRELLE, happily inspecting the contents of peoples recycling bins for violations, sees him, and saunters over before BERG notices. LIBRELLE: :Merg! BERG: Uh&#8230;hey&#8230; LIBRELLE: I read your bit on Watler Hudson&#8217;s hateful speech calling for genocide against trans children. BERG: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-84784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84784","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=84784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84785,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84784\/revisions\/84785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}