{"id":24479,"date":"2017-08-22T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24479"},"modified":"2017-08-22T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:58:46","slug":"thinking-strategically-about-free-speech-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/08\/22\/thinking-strategically-about-free-speech-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Strategically About Free Speech And Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Current Affairs<\/em> has the definitive article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2017\/08\/thinking-strategically-about-free-speech-and-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Thinking Strategically About Free Speech And Violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are many great ideas in the article.  There is one that I would like to give special emphasis to by quoting it below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe battle is not for the hearts and minds of white supremacists, but for the hearts and minds of the general public.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I always keep this in mind for postings on this blog and any discussions I get into on the internet.  I never assume that I can change the mind of the opponent in a discussion.  I am just hoping that I can present a reasonable argument that the silent readers of the discussion can think about.  I don&#8217;t want the readers to think that there is no rebuttal to the argument my opponent uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Affairs has the definitive article Thinking Strategically About Free Speech And Violence. There are many great ideas in the article. There is one that I would like to give special emphasis to by quoting it below. The battle is not for the hearts and minds of white supremacists, but for the hearts and minds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24481,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479\/revisions\/24481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}