{"id":131352,"date":"2016-08-25T22:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T04:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/for-the-dark-things-cannot-stand-the-light-2.html"},"modified":"2016-08-25T22:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T04:16:29","slug":"for-the-dark-things-cannot-stand-the-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/for-the-dark-things-cannot-stand-the-light-2.html","title":{"rendered":"For the dark things cannot stand the light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, that&#39;s not always true. Indeed, sometimes shedding light on &#8212; paying attention to, calling out, providing publicity for &#8212; the fringy and freaky only lends them credence, makes them feel important, that they&#39;ve arrived. It can even validate their feelings to be publicly berated by those they hate\/fear\/mock. <\/p>\n<p>But whether the dark things can or can&#39;t stand the light, sometimes the light is necessary to confirm they are there, and to let them be revealed to everyone for what they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/08\/alt-rights-dark-army-racist-trolls-just-great-day\/?mbid=social_gplus'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/FhpCoKDgd8uan0xz5sSQSr0SeCoP0duPs9UyPoZPmoeBnhKS0lIjFPhgxmijipS3NilPyG8thiBzRIJeqo9b3oveNoOfBoUsgAuvz1SFdOfTISki2-2J4LI-YiPNlMzwuLL3Qo6Q2i-lvqVB75rjpw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/08\/alt-rights-dark-army-racist-trolls-just-great-day\/?mbid=social_gplus'>The Alt-Right&rsquo;s Dark Army of Racist Trolls Just Had a Great Day<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/36WvJK847hw'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, that&#39;s not always true. Indeed, sometimes shedding light on &#8212; paying attention to, calling out, providing publicity for &#8212; the fringy and freaky only lends them credence, makes them feel important, that they&#39;ve arrived. It can even validate their feelings to be publicly berated by those they hate\/fear\/mock. But whether the dark things can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/for-the-dark-things-cannot-stand-the-light-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For the dark things cannot stand the light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28084,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/for-the-dark-things-cannot-stand-the-light.html","url_meta":{"origin":131352,"position":0},"title":"&quot;For the dark things cannot stand the light &#8230;&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Jun-12 12:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(From the Alan Scott \"classic\" Green Lantern oath: \"And I shall shed my light over dark evil, for the dark things cannot stand the light. 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