{"id":171,"date":"2006-02-15T20:38:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T01:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=171"},"modified":"2019-12-28T07:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:44:34","slug":"mmmmmm-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/mmmmmm-soft\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmmmmm, soft"},"content":{"rendered":"

I “lost” an argument this week to someone who must have used this as his handbook. His attack was a disjoint blend of Histrionics (“Use emotion . . . Sound indignant, outraged, self-righteous, passionate, ‘courageous’, ‘defiant'”) and Moral One-upmanship (“If people disagree with you, accuse them of Eurocentrism or elitism or intolerance or narrowness or conventional thinking or scientism or homophobia”). And then, the coup de grace<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Claiming is Succeeding: Blur the distinction between claiming to make your case, and actually making it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At that point, I started to wonder what on earth I was doing, wasting my time. lol<\/p>\n

Oh, I also realized how much I appreciate the clear and honest minds I’ve encountered since I’ve begun blogging. Thanks, you guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I “lost” an argument this week to someone who must have used this as his handbook. His attack was a disjoint blend of Histrionics (“Use emotion . . . Sound indignant, outraged, self-righteous, passionate, ‘courageous’, ‘defiant’”) and Moral One-upmanship (“If … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[628,630,629,631],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-logic","tag-logical-fallacy","tag-rhetoric","tag-the-woolly-thinkers-guide-to-rhetoric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}