{"id":64308,"date":"2017-08-28T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64308"},"modified":"2017-08-27T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T15:13:17","slug":"turnabout-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64308","title":{"rendered":"Turnabout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Logical argument does not persuade people. We know this from conversations with Liberals in everyday life. They are motivated by rhetorical and emotional appeals.<\/p>\n

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That’s why this new campaign is so effective.\u00a0 Somebody borrowed the anti-fascists slogan to use on posters.\u00a0 The posters have an emotional impact that turns people against the slogan.\u00a0 “Punch a Nazi” becomes synonymous with domestic abuse.\u00a0 It makes clear that all people who employ violence are evil-doers.<\/p>\n

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Genius<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting – just as I opened Joe’s email, I was thinking “perhaps ridicule\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the answer to “Anti”-Fa.<\/p>\n

But Joe’s right. \u00a0It is an ingenious campaign. \u00a0Or will be provided that Big Left doesn’t excuse domestic violence “for all the right reasons’ too…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Logical argument does not persuade people. We know this from conversations with Liberals in everyday life. They are motivated by rhetorical and emotional appeals. That’s why this new campaign is so effective.\u00a0 Somebody borrowed the anti-fascists slogan to use on posters.\u00a0 The posters have an emotional impact that turns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,308,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64308","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=64308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64312,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64308\/revisions\/64312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}