{"id":150,"date":"2019-07-04T19:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T19:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2020-12-04T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T19:49:52","slug":"am-i-that-illiberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/am-i-that-illiberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I That Illiberal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I can understand that my own opinions might appear reactionary and that people may wish to ferociously argue with me \u2014 perhaps even during the course of the argument slip in the odd \u201cbigoted\u201d and make very plain their utter disgust, if they were an Uber driver I would not be riding with them \u2014 however, and this is the real rub for me, at least we can engage in an argument and actually learn from one another. I had a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mmacneill123\/what-kavanaugh-showed-us-redux-14233cc0562\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">great experience<\/a> on Medium of just that&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This article was an appeal for tolerance, you can read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/When-you-are-right-and-you-know-it.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I can understand that my own opinions might appear reactionary and that people may wish to ferociously argue with me \u2014 perhaps even during the course of the argument slip in the odd \u201cbigoted\u201d and make very plain their utter disgust, if they were an Uber driver I would not be riding with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[65,61,67,66],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-culture-politics","category-politics","tag-asiai-bibi","tag-free-speech","tag-right-to-offend","tag-tolerance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Am I That Illiberal? 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