{"id":63329,"date":"2017-05-31T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63329"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:23:10","slug":"narrative-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63329","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Joseph Christian kills two in an anti-Muslim rampage on a train in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Word gets out that Christian was a &#8220;white supremacist&#8221;. \u00a0Media assume that means &#8220;Right Wing Pro-Trump Hate Criminal&#8221; &#8211; and brows are furrowed as our \u00a0high priests of knowledge obsess over What It All Means.<\/p>\n<p>Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/why-is-the-media-branding-this-portland-hate-crime-murder-suspect-a-trump-supporter-hes-not\/\">it turns out Christian is actually a Sanders guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Writing for <em>Willamette Week<\/em>, Corey Pein said\u00a0he interviewed Christian during [a &#8220;Free Speech&#8221; march in Portland], and the alleged killer chanted the n-word and threw Nazi salutes. Pein writes that amid Christian\u2019s rants about Jews on Facebook, he expressed support for Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein for president. The <em>Willamette Week<\/em> writer describes that as a \u201cdistraction\u201d others will seize upon as they contradict the narrative of Christian as a real white supremacist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simple fact &#8211; and Berg&#8217;s 19th Law has controlling legal authority, here &#8211; is that Christian was a nihilist, if you want to credit it as an actual train of thought, and apparently deeply mentally ill if you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Either way? \u00a0The mainstream media promptly lost interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Joseph Christian kills two in an anti-Muslim rampage on a train in Portland, Oregon. Word gets out that Christian was a &#8220;white supremacist&#8221;. \u00a0Media assume that means &#8220;Right Wing Pro-Trump Hate Criminal&#8221; &#8211; and brows are furrowed as our \u00a0high priests of knowledge obsess over What It All Means. Then, it turns out Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63329","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=63329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63331,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63329\/revisions\/63331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}