{"id":65313,"date":"2017-12-05T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65313"},"modified":"2017-12-01T21:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T03:30:47","slug":"people-ask-me-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65313","title":{"rendered":"People Ask Me…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…”Mitch, why on earth did you write the character Avery Librelle<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

To which I respond “You mean, why did I create a ditzy, morally-flatlined person who seems to live in a world all hi…er, he…er, their own when it comes to the effects “progressive” policy have on real people?”<\/p>\n

And my questioner responds “Yes!\u00a0 Exactly!”<\/p>\n

And I answer “Because it’s not even close to fictional”.<\/p>\n

These are the people who claim to be non-violent – but not only tacitly support “Anti”-Fa, but ponied up a million dollars to defend a former terrorist who’d become a Highland Park liberal with impeccable credentials.<\/p>\n

These are the people who say out of one corner of their mouth they worship science (especially that dreamy Neil DeGrasse Tyson) but reject everything evolution has wrought in regard to, to pick one example, gender roles.<\/p>\n

And they are the ones who wrap themselves in feminism, up to and including the notion of scrapping due process when a woman accuses a man of any level of sexual harassment, abuse or assault…<\/p>\n

…but only the\u00a0wrong\u00a0<\/em>men.\u00a0 Not the men that give us the legislation we like, or say the things we agree with.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Avery Librelle would have scoffed at the\u00a0Strib’s\u00a0<\/em>letters to the editor about Garrison Keillor<\/a>\u00a0as being “too over the top”.<\/p>\n

Selected quotelets about Keillor:\u00a0 “Tears came to my eyes as I awoke Thursday morning, still partly in a wonderful dream in which I was going to an \u201cA Prairie Home Companion\u201d show. Garrison Keillor and a Walter Cronkite-type character were in the front seat of our carriage and we were in the back….They had unique takes on the world today, and past \u2014 and wisdom, hope and jokes to offer for the present and the future. Then, in real-word time, we discussed how incredibly sad we were, and my tears continued”.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m convinced that in his professional life he was pure, mostly. That is all we can ask of anyone.”<\/p>\n

“I think the knee-jerk response in this case is really over the top. Keillor really is the shyest guy in the room. I do not believe he ever knowingly committed any impropriety. This is becoming French Revolution stuff \u2014 just a single comment and it\u2019s \u201coff with his head!\u201d”<\/p>\n

“The Star Tribune should step up and recognize that all mistakes have gradation \u2014 the kid who steals a Snickers and the bank robber are neither morally nor criminally equal. ”<\/p>\n

“There is a significant cultural context to this issue. Keillor\u2019s artistic creations added an important element to this state\u2019s identity. So the steps MPR has taken not only diminish Keillor\u2019s reputation, they also undercut what we believe to be good about Minnesota.”<\/p>\n

True, he touched a woman in a place that isn\u2019t her soul, and doing that wasn\u2019t appropriate. But what he did isn\u2019t fire-worthy. He\u2019s apologized to her. We all have our foibles.”<\/p>\n

Minnesota liberals?\u00a0 I didn’t invent Avery Librelle.\u00a0 You did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…”Mitch, why on earth did you write the character Avery Librelle?” To which I respond “You mean, why did I create a ditzy, morally-flatlined person who seems to live in a world all hi…er, he…er, their own when it comes to the effects “progressive” policy have on real people?” And my questioner responds “Yes!\u00a0 Exactly!” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65313","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=65313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65323,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65313\/revisions\/65323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}