{"id":461,"date":"2014-04-14T22:14:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T03:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/?p=461"},"modified":"2014-04-14T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T03:19:10","slug":"461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"This Post Is Un-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kochs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-462\" alt=\"Billionaires Charles and David Koch have spent millions to influence elections and government policy.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kochs.png\" width=\"272\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kochs.png 272w, http:\/\/www.framology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kochs-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billionaires Charles and David Koch have spent millions to influence elections and government policy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Democrats are working to frame some of this year&#8217;s elections as about Charles and David Koch. As Peters and Hulse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/06\/us\/politics\/to-hit-back-at-kochs-democrats-revive-tactic-that-hurt-romney.html?ref=carlhulse&amp;_r=1\">report in the New York Times<\/a>, these billionaire brothers are spending a lot of money to influence elections across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hulse&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/story\/someone-has-koch-addiction\/\">interview with <em>On the Media<\/em><\/a> discusses using words like <em>un-American<\/em> to describe the Kochs and <em>collectivists<\/em> to label progressives.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>un-American<\/em> should be used sparingly, if at all&#8211;especially when describing a person. Unless used very carefully, it&#8217;s <a title=\"Political Bullying Is Wrong. There, I said it.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/?p=356\">name-calling and probably attributing evil motives to someone who doesn&#8217;t mean harm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do think that some behavior might be considered un-American, but because people have different views of our country&#8217;s interests and values, that&#8217;s also tricky. It&#8217;s best to avoid the word.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think it&#8217;s appropriate to label people as un-American? Is there such a thing as un-American behavior? Why or why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are working to frame some of this year&#8217;s elections as about Charles and David Koch. As Peters and Hulse report in the New York Times, these billionaire brothers are spending a lot of money to influence elections across the nation. Mr. Hulse&#8217;s interview with On the Media discusses using words like un-American to describe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/?p=461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Post Is Un-American<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[182,180,181],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-bullying","tag-election","tag-koch","tag-un-american"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UnAmerican.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.framology.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}