{"id":6,"date":"2015-12-09T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2015-12-09T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:40:19","slug":"about-stamp-out-stupid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/about-stamp-out-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"About &#8220;Stamp Out Stupid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 (attributed to Edmund Burke)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>People of good will can (and do) disagree on fundamental issues.\u00a0 And most people are genuinely people of good will.\u00a0 Be they liberal or conservative, they&#8217;re reasonable folk.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not concerned with those people here.<\/p>\n<p>This site is for those folks who are out on the ends of the bell curve.\u00a0 People who hold extreme ideas &#8211; and want to have the rest of us live our lives they way <strong>they<\/strong> decide &#8211; often while they fall short themselves.\u00a0 People who value their opinion over reality, and insist they be taken seriously, no matter how wrong they may be.\u00a0\u00a0 People who prefer jingoism, name-calling, and profiling to developing an informed point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid people.<\/p>\n<p>The easy thing to do is to ignore the stupid &#8211; to let it slide, because really &#8211; who actually <em>believes<\/em> that kind of thing? \u00a0 Unfortunately, that&#8217;s how stupid wins.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative is to call it out.\u00a0 Shine a light on it. \u00a0 And laugh at it (when it doesn&#8217;t make you want to cry).\u00a0 Work to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong> #stampoutstupid<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 (attributed to Edmund Burke) People of good will can (and do) disagree on fundamental issues.\u00a0 And most people are genuinely people of good will.\u00a0 Be they liberal or conservative, they&#8217;re reasonable folk.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not concerned with those people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampoutstupid.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}