{"id":51660,"date":"2022-02-17T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=51660"},"modified":"2022-02-17T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T16:58:25","slug":"rights-exist-to-protect-minority-opinions-and-minority-rights-theyre-never-needed-to-protect-majorities-up-until-the-majority-puts-an-authoritarian-in-charge-then-rights-only-exis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=51660","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rights exist to protect minority opinions and minority rights. They&#8217;re never needed to protect majorities.&#8221; &#8230;up until the &#8220;majority&#8221; puts an authoritarian in charge &#8211; then &#8220;rights&#8221; only exist for the ruling class https:\/\/t.co\/nTazePkIq6"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Rights exist to protect minority opinions and minority rights. They&#8217;re never needed to protect majorities.&#8221; &#8230;up until the &#8220;majority&#8221; puts an authoritarian in charge &#8211; then &#8220;rights&#8221; only exist for the ruling class https:\/\/t.co\/nTazePkIq6<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1494354399895990274\">Feb 17, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>February 17, 2022 at 11:53AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rights exist to protect minority opinions and minority rights. They&#8217;re never needed to protect majorities.&#8221; &#8230;up until the &#8220;majority&#8221; puts an authoritarian in charge &#8211; then &#8220;rights&#8221; only exist for the ruling class https:\/\/t.co\/nTazePkIq6 &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) Feb 17, 2022 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers February 17, 2022 at 11:53AM via IFTTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-51660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51661,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51660\/revisions\/51661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51660"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=51660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}