{"id":14572,"date":"2009-04-17T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14572"},"modified":"2009-04-17T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T01:25:09","slug":"how-do-i-express-my-disdain-without-being-impolite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/17\/how-do-i-express-my-disdain-without-being-impolite.html","title":{"rendered":"How do I express my disdain without being impolite?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"no-cursing\"<\/div>\n

I have to confess, I’m getting tired of throwing around terms like wingnut, idiot, cretin, buffoon, nut case, asshat, idjit, stupid, lunatic,<\/em> etc. It actually makes me feel uncomfortable, because I am a nice guy, and I don’t like being insulting, impolite, and uncivil, even if others are. It doesn’t improve the quality of discourse.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it’s such convenient shorthand when someone is <\/em>being a wingnut, idiot, cretin, etc. I mean, I could belabor why I feel the latest idiocy to fly out of someone’s mouth is, in fact, factually unsupportable, logically fallacious, and ethically dubious … but there’s far too much idiocy out there, and I do, in fact, have a full time job and family responsibilities to take care of. I need a shortcut.<\/p>\n

So does anyone have any good suggestions how I could express such sentiments succinctly, stylishly, effectively, and civilly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to confess, I’m getting tired of throwing around terms like wingnut, idiot, cretin, buffoon, nut case, asshat, idjit, stupid, lunatic, etc. It actually makes me feel uncomfortable, because I am a nice guy, and I don’t like being insulting, impolite, and uncivil, even if others are. It doesn’t improve the quality of discourse. … Continue reading “How do I express my disdain without being impolite?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/no-cursing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32294,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/arizona-continues-to-stay-competitive-in-wingnut-category.html","url_meta":{"origin":14572,"position":0},"title":"Arizona continues to stay competitive in "Wingnut" category","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Jan-13 10:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that this proposal, requiring students in\u00a0public high schools swear a Constitutional loyalty oath before they can graduate, has actually made it into state law. 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