{"id":5139,"date":"2017-03-10T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2017-03-10T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:23:50","slug":"shut-up-and-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5139","title":{"rendered":"Shut up and listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following passage (borrowed from a twitter feed<\/a>) is very suggestive:<\/p>\n

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We can all get a good chuckle about how these precious snowflakes<\/a> need a safe space.<\/p>\n

I imagine there’s some value in people being able to say things without having to worry about being evaluated (which is what “racist” is). This is what rough drafts are for.<\/p>\n

But rough drafts also serve another purpose: to elicit cheap criticism in a low-stakes environment. You can’t forget that part.<\/p>\n

If you do, then you’re just talking and making other people listen. What’s the point of that?<\/p>\n

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The following passage (borrowed from a twitter feed) is very suggestive:   We can all get a good chuckle about how these precious snowflakes need a safe space. I imagine there’s some value in people being able to say things without having to worry about being evaluated (which is what “racist” is). This is what … Continue reading Shut up and listen<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2134,2133],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-democracy","tag-precious-snowflakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}