{"id":59,"date":"2005-09-17T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2005-09-17T06:01:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-17T14:01:35","slug":"silent-majority-silent-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2005\/09\/17\/silent-majority-silent-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Majority&#8230;  Silent No More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"Century Gothic\"><font size=\"4\">So&#8230;. because I&#8217;m a conservative, I am apparently not an independent  thinker and definitely not open-minded.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Ok&#8230;  a little background&#8230;  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">I am participating in a newsgroup related to graphics.  A day  or so ago, someone made a somewhat snide comment about my President.   Normally, I just let such things slide, however this time I just couldn&#8217;t.   I\u2019m tired of being silent while people slam my politics.  I\u2019m tired of keeping quiet while people  disrespect my President.  So I spoke  up.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">I simply requested that we leave politics out of the discussion.  It\u2019s a graphics group, there is no  reason to bring personal politics into a discussion board about graphics  programs.   <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">My simple request was met with accusations of being over-sensitive.  I was also told that I needed to be more  open-minded to other points of view.   <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">You know what?  Screw  it.  I\u2019m tired of being silent while  my politics and beliefs are made fun of.   I\u2019m sure the fact that it was a company rep who said it made a big  difference in my decision to speak up this time.  But I am tired of being a member of the  silent majority.  And if we all  spoke up, maybe there would be some changes around here!  <strong><em>Silent Majority be silent no  more!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">One thing I have learned through the years\u2026  When someone starts yelling about being  open-minded, usually the person doing the yelling needs to take his own  advice.  Just like the one yelling  \u201cracist!\u201d is usually the first place you should look to find one\u2026  So too with the person complaining about  others not being \u201copen-minded.\u201d   Usually, it the complainant who is refusing to allow alternative points  of view into his thinking.   <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">So complain away\u2026  But I will  not be silent anymore.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;. because I&#8217;m a conservative, I am apparently not an independent thinker and definitely not open-minded. Ok&#8230; a little background&#8230; I am participating in a newsgroup related to graphics. A &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}