{"id":12095,"date":"2013-07-30T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12095"},"modified":"2013-07-30T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:19:11","slug":"a-useful-definition-of-civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12095","title":{"rendered":"a useful definition of civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Logan airport, trying to get to Chicago) Because I study civic engagement and civil society, people often expect me to favor <em>civility<\/em>. My actual view is more complicated; not only civil dialogue but also contentious speech is important in a democracy. Citizens should be able to express righteous anger; parties and candidates should face zero-sum competitions that necessitate sharp debate. Yet there is a reason to care about civility: it helps us to <em>learn<\/em> from other people. That is why I like the norm that the <a href=\"http:\/\/theciviccommons.com\/pages\/principles\">Civic Commons<\/a> expects of its online participants: &#8220;We&#8217;re as interested in each other&#8217;s opinions as we are in our own. And we act like it.&#8221; That works for me as a definition of civility. For more on the context, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RSgFDQ77GiA\">Dan Moulthrop&#8217;s remarks at Frontiers of Democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Logan airport, trying to get to Chicago) Because I study civic engagement and civil society, people often expect me to favor civility. My actual view is more complicated; not only civil dialogue but also contentious speech is important in a democracy. Citizens should be able to express righteous anger; parties and candidates should face zero-sum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deliberation","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12108,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions\/12108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}