{"id":18312,"date":"2019-06-08T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18312"},"modified":"2019-06-08T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T21:42:21","slug":"when-the-overton-window-shoves-a-viewpoint-as-not-wrong-not-naive-but-beyond-the-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/06\/08\/when-the-overton-window-shoves-a-viewpoint-as-not-wrong-not-naive-but-beyond-the-pale\/","title":{"rendered":"when the overton window shoves a viewpoint as not wrong, not naive, but beyond the pale…"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.\u00c2\u00a0 Seinfeld in the 1990s, exaggerating the reality of that moment, predicting the discourse of the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2.\u00c2\u00a0 As an aside, “alt right” (not that there’s any real clear definition of the term) power house Steve Bannon earns a share of the distribution for Seinfeld, so profits off of Seinfeld earnings.<\/p>\n

3.\u00c2\u00a0 The anti-abortion (pro life if you will) movement in Ireland suffered a devastating blow at the polls recently.\u00c2\u00a0 We now see them retreated (or maybe always with this purview) where they put up inoffensive innocuous facebook ads showing a fetus image and the words “Choose Life”, which whatever else is floating into the “pro choice” rhetorical frame.\u00c2\u00a0 Facebook has blocked the ad.<\/p>\n

4.\u00c2\u00a0 Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse was one of the few politicos who showed themselves well when Zuckerberg was testifying before Congress.\u00c2\u00a0 Abortion was the point he brought as censorish solutions come into vogue where the political biases of an average Silicon Tech worker may set their Overton Window where any dispute against Abortion is a demand for a Margaret Atwood Dystopia.<\/p>\n

5.\u00c2\u00a0 A fashion magazine banishes the linking to a cartoonist from their domain, having discovered tweets that show his wife attending a pro-life rally and him showing her his support<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Mind you, abortion does not figure in any of the cartoons that would be slightly linked to the magazine.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe they’re following the money pit and seeing that any possible pacycheck to him may trickle down to anti-abortion advocacy of some sort\u00c2\u00a0 (Be sure to turn off Seinfeld, by the way — Steve Bannon owns a piece of it.)<\/p>\n

6.\u00c2\u00a0 Jackass politician sees he can make some political hay by brow-beating a protesting nun “praying for the babies<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0And I guess he’s right, for his constituency, who apparently will shove the praying nun with your James Kopp killer and the like.\u00c2\u00a0 The phraseology used against here is pretty fascinating — he’s exposing them for their slut shaming and on to some intersectional terminology.<\/p>\n

7.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been hearing this smattering of a putsch from various people along the autism \/ apsperger spectrum, and downs syndrome advocates, and a few other groupings who pose challenges for parents raising, on what happens when their condition is spot-able in the pregnancy stage — concern that people who are like them may end up summarily removed.\u00c2\u00a0 This is usually predicted with a requisite insistence that “don’t get me wrong; I support a woman’s right to choose” and in certain corridors of political advocating, “we can’t allow this to be used a wedge for anti-choicers”.\u00c2\u00a0 And all this, maybe.\u00c2\u00a0 But, even weakly in terms of nudging and persuading, and even minor, if this is one’s concern you’re landing somewhere shy of a total “pro choice” position — see the “shaming” rhetoric.\u00c2\u00a0 But in a spot where that facebook ad on “choose life” is beyond the pale, this “ant-ablist” cohort is going to have to open some space that’s being closed to voice their problem.<\/p>\n

8.\u00c2\u00a0 The movie Juno — if it were made today, would the anti-abortion advocate bit player be portrayed as sympathetically (if naive), from their pro-choice film-makers?<\/p>\n

9.\u00c2\u00a0 Curious as Joseph Biden filters about the Democratic Party weather-vane–\u00c2\u00a0 Wanting to establish himself as someone who’s not the type who will be slipping into a suggestion that current felons should vote.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a couple ways of looking at his move from support of the Hyde Amendment to opposition.\u00c2\u00a0 One: bow down to the realities of his Democratic constituency.\u00c2\u00a0 Two:\u00c2\u00a0 Listened to their concerns and adopted.\u00c2\u00a0 Nay, he won’t receive NARAL’s primary endorsement, but I suppose he won’t receive their fiercest of denunciations now.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone else can proceed accordingly and stay or leave the Italian restaurant in Seinfeld at their leisure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1.\u00c2\u00a0 Seinfeld in the 1990s, exaggerating the reality of that moment, predicting the discourse of the future. 2.\u00c2\u00a0 As an aside, “alt right” (not that there’s any real clear definition of the term) power house Steve Bannon earns a share of the distribution for Seinfeld, so profits off of Seinfeld earnings. 3.\u00c2\u00a0 The anti-abortion (pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18321,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions\/18321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}