To: Jason Chavez, Minneapolis DSA\/DFL councilbeing
From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant
Re: Punching<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Councilbeing Chavez, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You tweeted this on Wednesday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s talk about the term “uprising”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It usually connotes a group of subjugated, beaten-down people, “rising up” against their oppressors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Good examples of uprisings that fit some variant of that definition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each of these uprisings have a few things in common: the people doing the uprising were being actively oppressed by those up against whom they rose; the targets of their attacks were the actual <\/em>oppressors; tax authorities, the SS, the monarchy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In May of 2020, people who considered themselves oppressed (we’ll accept that for sake of argument) “rose up” and destroyed…<\/p>\n\n\n\n …hundreds of businesses, extremely <\/em>disproportionately owned by immigrants, people of color, people in the neighborhood. Oh, the Third Precinct got destroyed – after a couple of days of generalized looting and arson, seemingly almost as an afterthought, to give the “uprising” some window-dressing sense of political virtue other than “looting and burning cafes owned by first-generation Americans”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I may be just an obstreporous peasant, but I think “downrising” might be a better term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To: Jason Chavez, Minneapolis DSA\/DFL councilbeingFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Punching Councilbeing Chavez, You tweeted this on Wednesday: Let’s talk about the term “uprising”. It usually connotes a group of subjugated, beaten-down people, “rising up” against their oppressors. Good examples of uprisings that fit some variant of that definition: Each of these uprisings have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,17,51,374,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775","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=87775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87778,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775\/revisions\/87778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n