{"id":86440,"date":"2023-11-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86440"},"modified":"2023-11-12T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:13:14","slug":"remodeling-with-a-smaller-overton-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86440","title":{"rendered":"Remodeling With A Smaller Overton Window"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friend, advice columnist and author Amy Alkon, has been chronicling the orgy of antisemitism bursting out in the Los Angeles area.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She filmed this encounter over the weekend:<\/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\">We Jews thought we were safe in America. I no longer feel that with so many mobs on the streets openly calling for the mass slaughter of Jews.<br><br>Here in Venice, we just had these terrorism-loving monsters shouting for the slaughter of all Jews &#8212; and note the &quot;from the river to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KrR6P9O6wc\">pic.twitter.com\/KrR6P9O6wc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amyalkon\/status\/1723463984010187200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s take Judaism, Antisemitism and the Middle East out of this incident.  Let&#8217;s say this was a domestic altercation.  <s>A man<\/s> Two men use their physical bulk and subtly aggressive invasion of personal space to force a woman out of the way?  That&#8217;d be considered abuse in court, and justification for a restraining order and, likely, loss of child custody if the woman really wanted to put her back into it, legally .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was working in bars, if I saw a man behaving like this around a woman, I&#8217;d have called the bouncers in.   And there&#8217;s nothing those bouncers liked more than having a pretext to pummel guys who were threatening the ladies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Left  &#8211; maybe 5% of the population &#8211; is trying to intimidate the 55% that passively or actively disagree with them into submission.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the subtle threat of violence implicit is there, in this &#8220;man&#8217;s&#8221; delivery and in Big Left&#8217;s approach to every issue today &#8211; be careful, or you&#8217;ll get Swatted\/a visit from &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa\/doxxed &#8211; is waiting out there for everyone &#8211; especially if you try to rally in response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll be interviewing Amy on my show this coming Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, advice columnist and author Amy Alkon, has been chronicling the orgy of antisemitism bursting out in the Los Angeles area. She filmed this encounter over the weekend: Let&#8217;s take Judaism, Antisemitism and the Middle East out of this incident. Let&#8217;s say this was a domestic altercation. A man Two men use their physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,321,458,426,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-left","category-gaza-2023","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440","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=86440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86441,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440\/revisions\/86441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}