{"id":46733,"date":"2022-02-03T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46733"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:26:36","slug":"qotd-canadian-political-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/02\/03\/qotd-canadian-political-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Canadian political discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>[Y]ou can end all argument on any issue in Canada by saying a proposal is &#8220;American-style&#8221;. I&#8217;m waiting for someone to seriously argue for abolishing elections, since they lead to &#8220;American-style argument, disunity and wasteful spending on political campaigns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Damian Penny, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damianpenny.com\/archived\/004458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;More <em>Chaoulli<\/em>-related thoughts&#8221;, <em>Daimnation<\/em><\/a>, 2005-06-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dave Rudell formulates a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damianpenny.com\/comments\/display\/4458#105924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian version of Godwin&#8217;s law<\/a> in the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Maybe we need an analogy to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwin%27s_law\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Godwin&#8217;s Law<\/a> for political discourse in Canada. It could be something like; as the length of a political discussion among (between) Canadians increases, the probability of someone using the phrase &#8220;American-Style&#8221; approaches one. Of course, we&#8217;d also have to add the corollary; the person who invokes the phrase &#8220;American-Style&#8221; has probably just lost the argument.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Y]ou can end all argument on any issue in Canada by saying a proposal is &#8220;American-style&#8221;. I&#8217;m waiting for someone to seriously argue for abolishing elections, since they lead to &#8220;American-style argument, disunity and wasteful spending on political campaigns&#8221;. Damian Penny, &#8220;More Chaoulli-related thoughts&#8221;, Daimnation, 2005-06-13. Dave Rudell formulates a Canadian version of Godwin&#8217;s law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[6,57,53,41],"tags":[58,1122],"class_list":["post-46733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-internet","tag-xenophobia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c9L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46733","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=46733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71518,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46733\/revisions\/71518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}