{"id":11154,"date":"2010-06-01T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:49:00","slug":"the-lowest-common-demonizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11154","title":{"rendered":"The Lowest Common Demonizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are a leftyblogger.<\/p>\n<p>You <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/\">write a post <\/a>that is so chock-full of long-debunked shrieking points that there&#8217;s no room for any information of value that\u00a0 you might, improbably, know.<\/p>\n<p>In and among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/#comment-650466\">mindless <\/a>uncritical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/#comment-650442\">droogs <\/a>who support you with more of the same, a small group of pro-civil liberties people with actual facts on the issue at hand set you straight.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>You delete their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/#comment-650481\">substantive <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/#comment-650477\">fact<\/a>-clogged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/#comment-650478\">comments <\/a>about the time they start to make you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/#comment-650674\">look like the un-informed naif <\/a>you are; when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/#comment-650662\">even that doesn<\/a>&#8216;t work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nra-tyranny-of-the-minority\/#comment-650692\">you declare <\/a>those who disagree with you &#8220;propagandists&#8221;, and take your toys and run away.<\/p>\n<p>Not that anyone should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/006197.html\">expect <\/a>better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are a leftyblogger. You write a post that is so chock-full of long-debunked shrieking points that there&#8217;s no room for any information of value that\u00a0 you might, improbably, know. In and among the mindless uncritical droogs who support you with more of the same, a small group of pro-civil liberties people with actual facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}