{"id":34402,"date":"2021-10-02T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34402"},"modified":"2021-10-02T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T20:37:38","slug":"the-toxic-conservative-email-stream-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/10\/02\/the-toxic-conservative-email-stream-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toxic Conservative Email Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I know, I know – this thing<\/a> seems to go on forever. It’s that very length which contributes to the dangerousness of the mail. But here’s the next pic:<\/p>\n

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Unlike the last pic, which did a lot of heavy lifting, this one is designed to simply inflate outrage, thus deflecting & destroying analytical thought. But it’s important to note that this is the type of sub-message which can function acceptably on its own, as previous generations of Americans developed, to a degree, the ability to ignore, to tolerate the offensive expression.<\/p>\n

After all, as a nation of many creeds, philosophies, and religions, friction is an inevitable result of the machine to which we are constituent parts. The philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre is not a comfortable structure for many Americans, nor is the strictures of the Catholic Church. In other countries, deadly clashes over creeds, philosophies, and religions are a daily occurrence, but in the United States we all agree to abide by secular law, and that associated dogma only applies to those who agree to abide by it.<\/p>\n

So, on its own<\/strong>, this is a relatively inoffensive mockery of those who insist that being offended is a mortal sin.<\/p>\n

But in context, that context being the entire mail under analysis, it plays a role of inflating emotional outrage, and thus deflecting the analysis which might otherwise show this mail is a shameless attempt to manipulate those of a conservative temperament.<\/p>\n

And enrage the conservative against<\/em> the composer of that email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I know, I know – this thing seems to go on forever. It’s that very length which contributes to the dangerousness of the mail. But here’s the next pic: Unlike the last pic, which did a lot of heavy lifting, this one is designed to simply inflate outrage, thus \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34404,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions\/34404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}