{"id":25139,"date":"2014-11-05T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25139"},"modified":"2014-11-01T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:35:25","slug":"qotd-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/05\/qotd-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Any form of disputation is now \u201cBullying,\u201d as if the act of being less than supportive is a passive version of pushing someone down in the mud in the playground. The spread of the term beyond school infantilizes everyone and dilutes the term. Criticism is bullying; failure to agree with someone else\u2019s precepts is \u201chate.\u201d The internet did not invent this; it just allowed people with mushy noggins to retreat into supportive spaces where everyone outside the wall was a meany. <\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/14\/0314\/030714.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Bleat<\/em><\/a>, 2014-03-07<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any form of disputation is now \u201cBullying,\u201d as if the act of being less than supportive is a passive version of pushing someone down in the mud in the playground. The spread of the term beyond school infantilizes everyone and dilutes the term. Criticism is bullying; failure to agree with someone else\u2019s precepts is \u201chate.\u201d [&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":[28,41],"tags":[828,58,238],"class_list":["post-25139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","tag-bullying","tag-internet","tag-offensensitivity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6xt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139","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=25139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25140,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions\/25140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}