{"id":1644,"date":"2013-06-16T21:32:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T02:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2013-06-28T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:44:36","slug":"what-david-silverman-got-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/06\/16\/what-david-silverman-got-right\/","title":{"rendered":"What David Silverman Got Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was tempted yesterday to rebut some of the things that David Silverman got wrong in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/bravehero\/2013\/06\/16\/david-silverman\" target=\"_blank\">brief conversation<\/a> with Justin Vacula last night, but it&#8217;s going to be easier and vastly more productive to just focus on what Dave got right.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>David \u00a0was absolutely right to choose discourse and dialogue over banning and blacklisting.<\/li>\n<li>David was right to say that we should be discouraging particular <em>behaviors<\/em> rather than individual activists.<\/li>\n<li>David was right to say that we should be actively discouraging acts of hatred, harassment and bullying in particular.<\/li>\n<li>David was right to point out that people will indeed judge others by their relations and associations rather than their own individual words and actions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if Justin would actually disagree with any of these above points, and I don&#8217;t feel like the show delved nearly enough into specifics on point 3 to make any real progress. That said, I&#8217;m not sure if that would really be worth it at this point, as we&#8217;ve yet to see any examples of public call-outs having a deterrent effect within the movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was tempted yesterday to rebut some of the things that David Silverman got wrong in his brief conversation with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movement","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}