{"id":33776,"date":"2013-01-24T07:10:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33776"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:10:48","slug":"doakes-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33776","title":{"rendered":"Doakes&#8217; Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Godwin\u2019s Law says the first person to bring up Hitler in a debate, loses. Is there a comparable law for playing the race card?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person who attributes opposition to a public policy proposal to racism is presumed to have no valid arguments in support of the public policy proposal and the opponent no longer need participate in the discussion, having won by default.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, we should at least <em>try<\/em> to get this generally accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Godwin\u2019s Law says the first person to bring up Hitler in a debate, loses. Is there a comparable law for playing the race card? \u201cThe person who attributes opposition to a public policy proposal to racism is presumed to have no valid arguments in support of the public policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-for-the-language","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33776","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=33776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33778,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33776\/revisions\/33778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}