{"id":15382,"date":"2021-11-25T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T04:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2021-11-25T06:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T05:16:47","slug":"15382","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=15382","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/recallsfboe\/status\/1463181403193950210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15383 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dont-be-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-sf-school-board-recall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dont-be-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-sf-school-board-recall.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dont-be-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-sf-school-board-recall-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/dont-be-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-sf-school-board-recall-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-15382-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/SF-schoolboard-recall-twitter-video.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/SF-schoolboard-recall-twitter-video.mp4\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/SF-schoolboard-recall-twitter-video.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bay-area-politics\/article\/SF-school-board-recall-campaign-ad-cringe-Preston-16649915.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Gate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an email to SFGATE, Raj defended the video, writing that the person who played Lincoln is David Thompson, a &#8222;gay parent rightly upset that the school board prioritized renaming over reopening and found a symbolic way to communicate his disapproval.&#8220; Raj also said he is bisexual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I watched some of this with a feeling of a sort of puzzlement &#8211; awe or wonder would be too strong. I couldn&#8217;t figure out what was going on, really, even after reading and re-reading the SF Gate article. It&#8217;s apparent an organization is using irony to discredit another organization or group of individuals, but absent any knowledge of the referents the signs used here carry no valence. It was a strange feeling: I felt that at one time I would have known who some of these people are, and understood what issue was being wrestled with, but now I just don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t even know the minimal amount necessary to ground an effective show of ignorance. It&#8217;s just a blank.<\/p>\n<p>The whole &#8222;wrong side of history&#8220; conceit is a strange one. To claim a &#8222;wrong side&#8220; presupposes a &#8222;right side&#8220;. What do these terms mean? I can confidently state that I&#8217;m definitely on history&#8217;s side, however. I&#8217;ve always been a big fan of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Gate: In an email to SFGATE, Raj defended the video, writing that the person who played Lincoln is David Thompson, a &#8222;gay parent rightly upset that the school board prioritized renaming over reopening and found a symbolic way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=15382\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}