{"id":5241,"date":"2011-01-10T19:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2011-01-10T19:32:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T19:32:21","slug":"thinking-in-black-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/thinking-in-black-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking in black &#038; white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendan-nyhan.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/slippery-insinuations-about-climate-of-hate.html\">Slippery insinuations about a &#8220;climate of hate&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People have been having a hard time holding two ideas in their head at the same time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1. What Paul Krugman calls &#8220;eliminationist rhetoric&#8221; is bad.<br \/>\n2. Contrary to his suggestion, there is no evidence that such rhetoric caused Saturday&#8217;s events. Even if such evidence is later found, it would not justify the evidence-free claims that have been made in the last 48 hours.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is interesting how selective people have been when reporting Jared Lee Loughner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/laura_miller\/2011\/01\/09\/loughner_book_list\/index.html\">literary tastes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slippery insinuations about a &#8220;climate of hate&#8221;: People have been having a hard time holding two ideas in their head at the same time: 1. What Paul Krugman calls &#8220;eliminationist rhetoric&#8221; is bad. 2. Contrary to his suggestion, there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/thinking-in-black-white\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}