{"id":8891,"date":"2018-07-15T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2018-11-25T21:03:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T02:03:58","slug":"the-danielle-metz-show-020-the-absurd-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8891","title":{"rendered":"The Danielle Metz Show &#8211; 020 &#8211; The absurd files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DMS-020-RACEdownAslipperySLOPE-168x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" \/><audio preload=\"none\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/DMS\/DMS-020-180609-The-Absurd-Files.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><strong>Absurdity<\/strong> takes many forms, and some of the stories finding their way into many media reports today certainly fit the bill. Though the stories themselves may not be threatening or scary, what they symbolize might very well become so.<\/p>\n<p>In their appraisal of some \u2018absurd\u2019 reports, Danielle and Robert cite three recent media features that share the common threads of <strong>\u2018group think\u2019 and \u2018victim culture\u2019 ideologies<\/strong> (two absurdities in and of themselves).<\/p>\n<p>When a low percentage of \u2018black skiers\u2019 on a particular ski slope is interpreted as evidence of <strong>racial bias<\/strong>, it\u2019s clear that the great outdoor \u2018white space\u2019 being objected to by that writer isn\u2019t the snow.<\/p>\n<p>When mankind\u2019s exploration of space and the planets is portrayed as an undertaking to \u2018colonize\u2019 space in a manner resembling the historical imposition of one culture upon another, it\u2019s clear that those now calling for the <strong>\u2018decolonization\u2019 of space<\/strong> have already Left the planet.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And when the cost of feminine hygiene products is purported to be the cause of <strong>\u2018period poverty,\u2019<\/strong> it\u2019s clear that the only \u2018poverty\u2019 at hand is a poverty of someone\u2019s mind. Period.<\/p>\n<p>While these seemingly absurd stories may well have hidden motives and agendas driving their absurdities, all one can initially do is to laugh them off in the hope that however sinister those motives are, they will be taken no more seriously than the nonsense contrived to justify them.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise the joke&#8217;s on us. And if we keep laughing then, well, there\u2019s something about that that simply doesn\u2019t feel Just Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absurdity takes many forms, and some of the stories finding their way into many media reports today certainly fit the bill. Though the stories themselves may not be threatening or scary, what they symbolize might very well become so. In their appraisal of some \u2018absurd\u2019 reports, Danielle and Robert cite three recent media features that <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8891' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62,84,28,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-culture-society","category-journalism","category-latest","category-society","issues-collectivism","issues-colonizaion","issues-racism","issues-victim-culture","category-12-id","category-62-id","category-84-id","category-28-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}