{"id":8559,"date":"2021-09-14T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"the-hypocrisy-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8559","title":{"rendered":"THE HYPOCRISY ARGUMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am always fascinated when people lob the accusation of &#8220;Hypocrisy!&#8221; in political disagreements. It&#8217;s put forward with such confident self-righteousness, but it&#8217;s always a losing argument. That&#8217;s because &#8220;My political enemy used to say X, but now they say Y!&#8221; can so easily be flipped on its head.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(And the person making the hypocrisy argument simply doesn&#8217;t see it. THAT is what is fascinating.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a great example posted by a friend on Facebook recently:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgHzhIidYG6lmLDtHrGfCrVXgMffcDkt38NdNHL1y1-rcZ6OLhYIG6-KluVK4yFS2l4HJRfltKn8R4fl-CWZCm5U7g5rdCu6ipzg0-fpBzfDHVFpDA7_lLShyphenhyphenjcX6GU6TdHyhkHlNkCXvU\/w608-h640\/Screenshot_20210803-070629%257E2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1137\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_40aBUeYr7Gial7NsxZTjXNh99aUu6T8ahqROzmGfdPA5foYhLnBlz13rleftQDWqT492FUDB8_e1ULzPXhyphenhyphen90xmFPK3qi1nkalY-T-UPe5KFCV0IkXMpX6BRiI4Bg-xPj3B3JZ9seX8\/w640-h594\/20210913_195019%257E2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1903\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am always fascinated when people lob the accusation of &#8220;Hypocrisy!&#8221; in political disagreements. It&#8217;s put forward with such confident self-righteousness, but it&#8217;s always a losing argument. That&#8217;s because &#8220;My political enemy used to say X, but now they say Y!&#8221; can so easily be flipped on its head.\u00a0 Every time. (And the person making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8562,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions\/8562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}