{"id":5031,"date":"2017-05-27T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2017-05-27T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T19:17:23","slug":"democracy-needs-politeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/05\/27\/democracy-needs-politeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy needs politeness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn Political Discussion: \u00a0Politeness Rules<\/a><\/p>\n

From Aeon Magazine: Democracy needs politeness (May 16, 2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Autocrats shouted, cursed, and bullied, while American revolutionaries used politeness as a tool of radical politics\u201cLong before current fears about incivility in public life \u2013 before anxieties about Twitter-shaming and cable-news name-calling \u2013 politeness was very much on the minds of United States leaders. In 1808, the US president Thomas Jefferson ranked the \u2018qualities of mind\u2019 he valued. Not surprisingly, he included \u2018integrity\u2019, \u2018industry\u2019, and \u2018science\u2019. These traits were particularly important to American revolutionaries seeking a society based on independent citizens, rather than harsh rulers and inherited privilege. But at the top of his list, Jefferson chose not these familiar Enlightenment values but \u2018good humour\u2019 \u2013 or what contemporaries usually called \u2018politeness\u2019\u2026.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Link to complete article: \u00a0Politeness Rules<\/a><\/p>\n

(Courtesy of Gwyllm Llwydd.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Political Discussion: \u00a0Politeness Rules From Aeon Magazine: Democracy needs politeness (May 16, 2017) Autocrats shouted, cursed, and bullied, while American revolutionaries used politeness as a tool of radical politics\u201cLong before current fears about incivility in public life \u2013 before anxieties about Twitter-shaming and cable-news name-calling \u2013 politeness was very… 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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}