{"id":85228,"date":"2023-05-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85228"},"modified":"2023-05-26T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:31:18","slug":"annals-of-leftist-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85228","title":{"rendered":"Annals Of Leftist Semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zawahiri:  &#8220;Austere Religious Scholar&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lenin: &#8220;Controversial worker&#8217;s rights activist&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nashville school shooter:  &#8220;Tragic Victim&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Days of rioting,  burning, looting:  &#8220;Mostly Peaceful&#8221;&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dolt in a MAGA hat carrying out perhaps the lowest level of vandalism possible:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Terrorism&#8221;.<\/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\">Target is removing LGBTQ Pride products because of terrorist behavior like this.<br><br>Yes, this is absolutely terrorism &amp; Target should be ashamed for caving in. Just like Anheuser Busch caved in.<br><br>And people wonder why there\u2019s so much fear in our community. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0kMab9s44k\">https:\/\/t.co\/0kMab9s44k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scott_Wiener\/status\/1661450808758800384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; during the early days of the Civil Rights movement, activists were painstakingly trained not to lash out or do stupid things, since they&#8217;d be held against the entire movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tea Party got that pretty instinctively (which is why Big Left and the GOP Consultant Class had to invent their entire case against the Tea Party).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone&#8217;s gotta tell MAGA.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  As you can see from the tweet, people figured it out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zawahiri: &#8220;Austere Religious Scholar&#8221; Lenin: &#8220;Controversial worker&#8217;s rights activist&#8221; Nashville school shooter: &#8220;Tragic Victim&#8221; Days of rioting, burning, looting: &#8220;Mostly Peaceful&#8221;&#8221;. Dolt in a MAGA hat carrying out perhaps the lowest level of vandalism possible: &#8220;Terrorism&#8221;. By the way &#8211; during the early days of the Civil Rights movement, activists were painstakingly trained not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85228","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=85228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85235,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85228\/revisions\/85235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}