{"id":85489,"date":"2023-07-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85489"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:03:14","slug":"presumably-tweeted-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85489","title":{"rendered":"Presumably Tweeted From Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Ben and Jerry&#8217;s<br>From:  Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant<br>Re:  Performative Garment Rending Would Be A Great Flavor Name<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben and Jerry, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You produce yet another product I&#8217;ve never bought, and being fairly strict keto, will not be buying any time soon, politics notwithstanding, so this note is of no real consequenes to either of us.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sort of like the tweet below, in which you join the academic-nonprofit\/industrial complex in its latest round of performative consequence-free virtue-signaling:<\/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\">This 4th of July, it&#39;s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/45smaBmORH\">https:\/\/t.co\/45smaBmORH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a6qp7LXUAE\">pic.twitter.com\/a6qp7LXUAE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ben &amp; Jerry&#39;s (@benandjerrys) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benandjerrys\/status\/1676214289353572352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then f***ing do it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liquidate your business.  Give it back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/place\/towns\/greensborobend\/abenaki.php#:~:text=The%20Abenaki%20have%20been%20in,and%20they%20are%20here%20now.\">the Abenaki tribe, the people who are indigenous to be area around Burlington, Vermont<\/a>.  All of it, down to the last dime.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenberg?  Yep &#8211; back to Europe with you, where you can argue about who&#8217;s stolen what land dating back to the Romans and before, and be alarmed at how unconcerned anyone in Europe seems to be about the millennia of land-theft behind all the modern states.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After you move to Canada, of course.  Which is also &#8220;stolen&#8221;, come to think of it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; until you&#8217;ve done that, shut up.  Seriously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Ben and Jerry&#8217;sFrom: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasantRe: Performative Garment Rending Would Be A Great Flavor Name Ben and Jerry, You produce yet another product I&#8217;ve never bought, and being fairly strict keto, will not be buying any time soon, politics notwithstanding, so this note is of no real consequenes to either of us. Sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-85489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-pc","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85489","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=85489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85490,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85489\/revisions\/85490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}