{"id":6548,"date":"2020-12-12T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T10:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2020-12-12T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T10:37:20","slug":"there-be-assholes-in-these-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/there-be-assholes-in-these-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"There be assholes in these woods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One persons asshole is anothers fountain of truth, so let’s not put too much effort into denouncing people doing shitty stuff \u2013 hate the game, not the player<\/em> \u2013 even though some stuff might not just be stuff<\/em> stuff, but stuff which indicates a genuine commitment to being a shit person.<\/em> And other times it’s just a sign of the times \u2013 times which ought to get with the new times, but nonetheless people taking advantage of situations knowing they probaby shouldn’t<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By even the least charitable interpretation, no laws were broken. Legally speaking, he seems to be in the clear. Even West has said: this wasn\u2019t them being abusive, it was a man abusing his power<\/em>. But the fact that it was legal<\/em> doesn\u2019t mean that harm wasn\u2019t done. It doesn\u2019t mean that people weren\u2019t taken advantage of, had their trust abused by someone they respected or \u2014 in many cases \u2014 idolized and who leveraged their trust against them. <\/p>Dr. Nerdlove: On Finding Out Your Heroes are Monsters (Or: Detoxifying A Culture)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Goddammit<\/em> Warren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He then utters his infamous words. The interlocutors go on to kibitz about Huey Long and barbecue. Then Atwater, apparently satisfied that he\u2019d absolved the Southern Republican Party of racism once and for all, follows up with a prediction based on a study he claims demonstrates that Strom Thurmond won 38 percent of South Carolina\u2019s middle-class black vote in his 1978 Senate campaign (run by Atwater).<\/p>The Nation, Rick Perlstein: Lee Atwater\u2019s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Marclay \u201chad the spark,\u201d as he put it, but he was daunted: how many clips would be required to fill up twenty-four hours? In most film sequences, the camera lingers on a clock for a few seconds. \u201cI didn\u2019t have the courage to get started, because I knew it would be an endless struggle,\u201d he said. But now, in London, he decided to see if he could build the defining monument of the remix age.<\/p>New Yorker, Daniel Zalewski: The Hours – How Christian Marclay created the ultimate digital mosaic.<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At its core are lurid claims that an elite cabal of child-trafficking paedophiles, comprising, among others, Hollywood A-listers, leading philanthropists, Jewish financiers and Democrat politicians, covertly rule the world. Only President Trump can bring them to justice with his secret plan that will deliver what QAnon\u2019s disciples refer to as \u201cThe Storm\u201d or \u201cThe Great Awakening\u201d.<\/p>The Guardian, Jamie Doward: ‘Quite frankly terrifying’: How the QAnon conspiracy theory is taking root in the UK<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The idea that “at first they ignore you, then they laugh at you\u2026” etc goes both ways, and pretty soon the conspiracies might be even less amusing. I remember laughing nervously when an aquaintance at work was talking about chemtrails a while back \u2013 I couldn’t believe that what I’d previously only seen as ironic memes actually popped up in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One persons asshole is anothers fountain of truth, so let’s not put too much effort into denouncing people doing shitty stuff \u2013 hate the game, not the player \u2013 even though some stuff might not just be stuff stuff, but stuff which indicates a genuine commitment to being a shit person. And other times it’s … Continue reading There be assholes in these woods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6629,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}