{"id":147,"date":"2003-09-21T12:56:38","date_gmt":"2003-09-21T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=147"},"modified":"2003-09-21T12:56:38","modified_gmt":"2003-09-21T16:56:38","slug":"watching-how-the-wind-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Watching How the Wind Blows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trish Wilson’s blog has a brand new look<\/a> and some hard-hitting questions<\/a> for Wendy McElroy who in this column<\/a> appearing on ifeminists, a FOX feature, informs readers about alarming actions taken by ‘fathers’ rights activists’ in the UK.<\/p>\n

In the last two weeks, more than 60 family court offices in Britain received hoax bombs<\/a> that were apparently sent by fathers’ rights extremists: perhaps by one individual.<\/i><\/p>\n

At this point I’m wondering, among other things, why McElroy referenced The Black Panthers <\/a>in her column. Wouldn’t a more relevant analogy have been made between these angry white men and say, The Weathermen<\/a>, who in fact took it the next step and manufactured real bombs?<\/p>\n

This mini-psyche profile is a tighter fit as well:<\/p>\n

Driven by simplistic politics (which Gitlin adroitly describes as being of the ?kindergarten? level) and full of their own egos, the Weathermen believed that their radical actions would help drive the country into revolutionary chaos…<\/p>\n

…But, protected by the privilege of their skin color and background (several of them are now safely-ensconced career academics) in a way that groups like the Panthers never were, the Weathermen survived as the left collapsed around them.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trish Wilson’s blog has a brand new look and some hard-hitting questions for Wendy McElroy who in this column appearing on ifeminists, a FOX feature, informs readers about alarming actions taken by ‘fathers’ rights activists’ in the UK. In the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}