{"id":10173,"date":"2011-05-25T18:34:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2011-05-25T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:34:18","slug":"trolls-and-other-contemptible-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/25\/trolls-and-other-contemptible-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolls, and other contemptible people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this that I noted today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s possible to believe that someone is completely wrong on policy while respecting his or her character. But policy aside, these are just contemptible people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/24\/where-have-all-the-mensches-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Krugman<\/a>, expressing a sentiment that is close to my heart about people of the type he refers to.<\/p>\n<p>I make the point for good reason: neoliberals without arguments get very upset when I say that I presume that their dislike of people without wealth seems to underpin their comments. They call me all sorts of names - as Krugman is called all sorts of names. But all I'm saying, like Krugman is, is that such an attitude makes these\u00a0contemptible\u00a0people.<\/p>\n<p>And if you don't like that please don't comment. Then I won't have to disagree with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this that I noted today: It\u2019s possible to believe that someone is completely wrong on policy while respecting his or her character. But<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/25\/trolls-and-other-contemptible-people\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}