{"id":86653,"date":"2023-12-15T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86653"},"modified":"2023-12-15T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:35:10","slug":"converts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86653","title":{"rendered":"Converts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wonder why Big Left&#8217;s noise machine was so quick to try to gundeck <em>The Fall of Minneapolis<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because they&#8217;re smart enough to see that it coud change some minds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, the minds of academic Glenn Loury and the <em>NYTimes&#8217;s <\/em>John McWhorter &#8211; both of whom formerly bought Big Left&#8217;s story on the events of May 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And both of whom re-evaluated things pretty radically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Truth about George Floyd&#039;s Death | Glenn Loury &amp; John McWhorter | The Glenn Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ffv4IUxkDU?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Haven&#8217;t seen it yet?  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefallofminneapolis.com\/\">Make up your own mind<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder why Big Left&#8217;s noise machine was so quick to try to gundeck The Fall of Minneapolis? Because they&#8217;re smart enough to see that it coud change some minds. In this case, the minds of academic Glenn Loury and the NYTimes&#8217;s John McWhorter &#8211; both of whom formerly bought Big Left&#8217;s story on the events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86653","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=86653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86654,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86653\/revisions\/86654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}