{"id":669,"date":"2012-11-13T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=669"},"modified":"2012-11-13T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T16:49:48","slug":"if-ridicule-is-legitimate-against-racism-it-is-legitimate-against-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2012\/11\/13\/if-ridicule-is-legitimate-against-racism-it-is-legitimate-against-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"If ridicule is legitimate against racism, it is legitimate against religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/11\/photo-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-673\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/11\/photo-2-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/11\/photo-2-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2012\/11\/photo-2.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When John had a <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/debunkingchristianity\/2012\/10\/31\/stephen-law-on-the-use-of-mockery\/\">recent post<\/a> on the use of mockery against religion, we were treated to this whiny comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well.. People have always mocked, what they didn&#8217;t understand. It&#8217;s just something people do, when they feel insecure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enter Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jerry Coyne has this<a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/13\/how-to-fight-hate-speech-with-clown-power\/\"> interesting post<\/a> about some of the wold&#8217;s scummiest slime balls (neo-Nazis and the KKK) putting up a rally inn Charlotte. The locals had an ingenious way of countering them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three days ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, a neo-Nazi group joined with the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (it\u2019s amazing that these organizations still have <em>any<\/em> members!) to hold a hate rally at Old City Hall in Charlotte, North Carolina.\u00a0 250 counter-protesters decided to \u201cprank them\u201d by dressing up like clowns and shouting ludicrous counter-slogans.\u00a0 Result: Klan and Nazis looked stupid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To our faithful whiner: those who protested against the racists UNDERSTOOD RACISM ALL TOO WELL. THE DID NOT MOCK THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE INSECURE. Mockery is a useful tool to expose baseless and dangerous ideas, and religion is no exception. And by the way, while this was indeed a hate rally, so is any fire and brimstone rally that threatens gays, non-believers, and followers of other religions with eternal torture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When John had a recent post on the use of mockery against religion, we were treated to this whiny comment:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}