{"id":4668,"date":"2014-03-06T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:04:34","slug":"persuasive-explanations-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4668","title":{"rendered":"Persuasive explanations &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In more &#8220;They oppose us because of their <em>dogmatism<\/em>, we oppose them because of our <em>principles<\/em>&#8221; news, the Rutgers faculty opposition to Condoleeza Rice&#8217;s commencement address has been explained by Republican New Jersey assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/372623\/rutgers-rages-over-rice-andrew-johnson\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[It is] nothing more than a political firestorm fueled by their hatred of an opposing ideology, and President George W. Bush in particular.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course.\u00c2\u00a0 If what you mean by &#8216;hatred of opposing ideology&#8217; is opposition to torture, objections to a poorly researched case for war, and reluctance to embrace American exceptionalism, that&#8217;s right.\u00c2\u00a0 Erm, but that&#8217;s not a &#8216;nothing more than&#8217; sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In more &#8220;They oppose us because of their dogmatism, we oppose them because of our principles&#8221; news, the Rutgers faculty opposition to Condoleeza Rice&#8217;s commencement address has been explained by Republican New Jersey assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini (here): [It is] nothing more than a political firestorm fueled by their hatred of an opposing ideology, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Persuasive explanations &#8211; Part 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}