{"id":61449,"date":"2016-12-22T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61449"},"modified":"2017-04-21T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:38:15","slug":"the-first-trump-2020-campaign-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61449","title":{"rendered":"The First &#8220;Trump 2020&#8221; Campaign Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an election where Identity Politics generated an identity politics backlash that overwhelmed the Identity Politicians, MTV News triples down with perhaps the most textbook example of tone-deafness in a movement that can&#8217;t carry a tune in a bucket in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Broad, ofay stereotyping is now good, apparently:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SBluYsydAVc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;White guys&#8221;. \u00a0Huh. \u00a0Because an Italian about as much socially in common with a Swede as a Korean has with a Philipino?<\/p>\n<p>My &#8220;favorite&#8221;? \u00a0&#8220;Learn what &#8216;mansplaining&#8217; is, and stop doing it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ma&#8217;am, I know what &#8220;mansplaining&#8221; is. \u00a0It&#8217;s a way to dismiss someone&#8217;s argument without actually having to address it. \u00a0It&#8217;s a weaponized rhetorical coin trick that genderizes, at most, poor communication, and at the very least, personal annoyance and peevishness. \u00a0Nothing more. \u00a0In a world run by Mitch Berg, using the term &#8220;Mansplaining&#8221; to cut off an argument would be grounds for spraying people in the face with mace.<\/p>\n<p>And if I could just take a moment to express my complete fatigue with Millennial hipster pajama-boy gamma\u00a0male virtue-signalling?<\/p>\n<p>I plan on circulating this far and wide &#8211; until it gets disappeared, at least.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also more than a little tempting to do my own New Years resolutions list for MTV and our Social Justice Warrior community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an election where Identity Politics generated an identity politics backlash that overwhelmed the Identity Politicians, MTV News triples down with perhaps the most textbook example of tone-deafness in a movement that can&#8217;t carry a tune in a bucket in the first place. Broad, ofay stereotyping is now good, apparently: &#8220;White guys&#8221;. \u00a0Huh. \u00a0Because an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,18,337,374,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-18","category-pc","category-privilege","category-social-justice","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61449"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61462,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61449\/revisions\/61462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}