{"id":17389,"date":"2011-01-14T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T13:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17389"},"modified":"2011-01-14T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T13:57:55","slug":"civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17389","title":{"rendered":"Civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true that a big part of civility is what one says. \u00a0Things like <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/node\/14103\">calling someone you disagree with &#8220;Hitler&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; bad. \u00a0Very very uncivil.<\/p>\n<p>Another big part of civility is what you say <em>back<\/em>. \u00a0For example &#8211; if <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/node\/14103\">someone calls you &#8220;Hitler<\/a>&#8220;, and you&#8217;re not actually a Nazi, &#8220;civility&#8221; involves responding to incivility in a civilized manner.<\/p>\n<p>Civil responses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ignoring the person who called you a &#8220;nazi&#8221;, because civil people ignore barbarians.<\/li>\n<li>Defuse the incivility with humor: &#8220;Er, no &#8211; have you tried to goosestep in shoes like this?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Look at \u00a0your attacker, affect a casual grin, and go &#8220;there you go again&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Uncivil response:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call down the entire force of government to silence your opponent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember &#8211; &#8220;civility&#8221; is a two-way street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true that a big part of civility is what one says. \u00a0Things like calling someone you disagree with &#8220;Hitler&#8221; &#8211; bad. \u00a0Very very uncivil. Another big part of civility is what you say back. \u00a0For example &#8211; if someone calls you &#8220;Hitler&#8220;, and you&#8217;re not actually a Nazi, &#8220;civility&#8221; involves responding to incivility in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389","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=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17392,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions\/17392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}