{"id":3167,"date":"2015-01-29T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:40:39","slug":"what-does-chait-want-from-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/01\/29\/what-does-chait-want-from-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Chait want from Myers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, PZ Myers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donotlink.com\/ded9\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;What exactly do you want, Jonathan Chait?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve read Chait&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/01\/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html\" target=\"_blank\">piece at New York Magazine<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve read Myers&#8217; blog for many years,\u00a0it seems obvious <em>exactly<\/em>\u00a0what Jonathan wants from PZ and his horde of commenters. Here follows a highly abbreviated bulleted list, in hopes of clarifying which particular steps Chait believes would improve our overall level of discourse:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop treating \u201ceven faintly unpleasant ideas or behaviors as full-scale offenses.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stop trying to \u201cregulate political discourse by defining opposing views as bigoted and illegitimate.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stop launching \u201chashtag campaigns and . . . petitions in response to the slightest of identity-politics missteps.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stop making it \u201ctaboo to request that [an] accusation be rendered in a less hostile manner.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stop disallowing the \u201cpossibility that [an] accusation may be erroneous.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stop \u201cendlessly litigating the fraught requirements of p.c. discourse.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stop promoting the \u201cgrowing left-wing tendency toward censoriousness and hair-trigger offense.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Start living out the ideal that \u201csocial progress can continue while we maintain our traditional ideal of a free political marketplace where we can reason together as individuals.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seems straightforward enough.<\/p>\n<p>I fully expect, of course, that none of this sound advice will be taken on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, PZ Myers asked\u00a0&#8220;What exactly do you want, Jonathan Chait?&#8221; Since I&#8217;ve read Chait&#8217;s piece at New York Magazine, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","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=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}