{"id":69188,"date":"2021-01-26T11:33:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=69188"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:33:50","slug":"attack-ideas-not-the-people-that-hold-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/attack-ideas-not-the-people-that-hold-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack Ideas &#8211; not the people that hold them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard <a href=\"https:\/\/uncommondescent.com\/intelligent-design\/attack-ideas-not-the-people-who-hold-them\/\">this<\/a> first at Uncommon Descent from blog-tsar, Dave Springer. I think it is a reasonable aspiration. Do we at TSZ fall short? Is it possible to attack the ideas of Donald Trump without being disparaging about the person of Donald Trump? I&#8217;ll admit to a lapse there. But in general, I think contributors support their claims and naked <em>ad hominem<\/em> seems rare here to me. Please correct me in comments if your mileage differs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This post was provoked by <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/genetic-drift-for-dummies\/comment-page-2\/#comment-283472\">this comment<\/a> from phoodoo. It&#8217;s a difficult area for me, being born white, male, and British. Is it possible to safely navigate between justified criticism of the speech or actions of a cultural, ethnic, religious group and personal attacks that could be described as racist? Is there a bright line between free speech and hate speech?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this first at Uncommon Descent from blog-tsar, Dave Springer. I think it is a reasonable aspiration. Do we at TSZ fall short? Is it possible to attack the ideas of Donald Trump without being disparaging about the person &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/attack-ideas-not-the-people-that-hold-them\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,524,502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-and-morality","category-politics","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}