{"id":96,"date":"2025-07-07T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/on-lame-appeals-for-civility\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:47:11","slug":"on-lame-appeals-for-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/on-lame-appeals-for-civility\/","title":{"rendered":"On Lame Appeals for Civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Trey Gowdy issued one on his show last night. The man needs to stiffen his spine and realize that our political opponents are enemies with whom we share insufficient common ground for productive debate.&#0160; They don&#39;t need debating but defeating.&#0160; He did guest a Dem pol who talked some sense and seemed decent, but the guy was an outlier who apparently hasn&#39;t yet grasped that his party is and has been for some time a hard-Left outfit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Here at <em>MavPhil<\/em> my tone is &#39;edgier&#39;&#0160; than on Substack and on Facebook it is edgier still.&#0160; &#0160;A good writer can write in different tones and voices depending on his audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">See my <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/leftists-and-civility?utm_source=publication-search\">Leftists and Civility<\/a> over at the Stack for a measured partial statement of my views on this topic.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trey Gowdy issued one on his show last night. The man needs to stiffen his spine and realize that our political opponents are enemies with whom we share insufficient common ground for productive debate.&#0160; They don&#39;t need debating but defeating.&#0160; He did guest a Dem pol who talked some sense and seemed decent, but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/on-lame-appeals-for-civility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Lame Appeals for Civility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,43,123,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civility","category-political-language","category-political-morality","category-political-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}