{"id":193,"date":"2006-09-11T22:07:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T02:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2006-09-11T22:07:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T02:07:30","slug":"the-usual-purple-tinged-hyperbole-about-ufos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/11\/the-usual-purple-tinged-hyperbole-about-ufos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Usual Purple Tinged Hyperbole About UFOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/guy\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" class=\"authorBioPic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanchronicle.com\/bioPics\/author814.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Red Queen seems to have a bee in her bonnet!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"articleBy\">R.  Lee<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleDate\">September 10, 2006<\/div>\n<p>Wandering through the kingdom of anti-UFOism on the internet, I recently came across a few sites with the same message; so-called \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153name calling\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 is just as bad as using racial slurs. Labeling the anti-UFOists, skeptics and or debunkers as any of the following: skeptoid, skepti-bunkie, Skepti-bunkie, New Thug, etc. is on the same level as being called any of the heinous names for an ethnic, cultural or racial group. (Also, using such labels as say, New Thugs or skeptibunkies, supports their opinion that the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cname caller\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d is emotionally and psychologically deficient in some way.) The obvious &#8212; that these offended complainers use terms like woo, kook, lunatics, true believers, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153bleevers, etc. &#8212; well, no need to point that out, so I won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanchronicle.com\/articles\/viewArticle.asp?articleID=13426\">&#8230;more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Queen seems to have a bee in her bonnet! R. Lee September 10, 2006 Wandering through the kingdom of anti-UFOism on the internet, I recently came across a few sites with the same message; so-called \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153name calling\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/11\/the-usual-purple-tinged-hyperbole-about-ufos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}