{"id":18219,"date":"2016-10-27T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18219"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:36:50","slug":"bullying-a-two-way-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18219","title":{"rendered":"Bullying &#8211; a two way street?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my post about Mr. French who has received hostile (to put it mildly) messages from what he characterizes as &#8220;Alt Right&#8221; Trump supporters my Buddy sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dilbert.com\/post\/152293480726\/the-bully-party\">this blog post<\/a> from Dilbert creater Scott Adams to demonstrate that malevelance doesn&#8217;t just come from one direction.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they are equivelent in their malevelance or not all such harassment is a sign, at the very least, of self righteousness. No one has a monopoly on that human vice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what Adams said or did to deserve abuse. I heard him on the BBC being interviewed recently and as I recall he said something to the effect that he was indifferent about who should become the next US President. I sort of remember him saying he didn&#8217;t plan to vote but at the very least he seemed to think the big issues were so complicated that neither candidate had anything like a firm grasp on solutions. That&#8217;s hardly worthy of harassment so Adams must have angered Hillary&#8217;s supporters in some other way if he&#8217;s now planning on endorsing Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Will he do it in a Dilbert cartoon? I will keep my eye out for that. I haven&#8217;t decided whether Dilbert is an exercise in cynicism or skepticism. I guess I&#8217;d take his endorsement of a presidential candidate in much the same way as I take his pointed cartoons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my post about Mr. French who has received hostile (to put it mildly) messages from what he characterizes as &#8220;Alt Right&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18227,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219\/revisions\/18227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}