{"id":17855,"date":"2012-11-21T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17855"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:45:09","slug":"jonathan-rauch-defends-being-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/jonathan-rauch-defends-being-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Rauch defends &#8220;Being Offensive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cITDCwKzGBM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t trust anybody in authority to make smart decisions for us about what&#8217;s the acceptable point of view.&#8221; So says author and Brookings Institution scholar Jonathan Rauch in FIRE&#8217;s video, &#8220;In Defense of Being Offensive.&#8221; Rauch presents a stirring and convincing defense of pluralism over what he calls &#8220;purism,&#8221; arguing that minorities benefit more under a society that values pluralism, including the right to offend others. Rauch concludes: &#8220;Is it a dangerous situation when someone can shut down the search for truth by saying &#8216;Oh, that offends me&#8217;? Absolutely.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vpostrel\/statuses\/270934460428611584\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Postrel<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t trust anybody in authority to make smart decisions for us about what&#8217;s the acceptable point of view.&#8221; So says author and Brookings Institution scholar Jonathan Rauch in FIRE&#8217;s video, &#8220;In Defense of Being Offensive.&#8221; Rauch presents a stirring and convincing defense of pluralism over what he calls &#8220;purism,&#8221; arguing that minorities benefit more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,28],"tags":[459,186,196],"class_list":["post-17855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-lgbt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4DZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17857,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855\/revisions\/17857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}