{"id":5672,"date":"2025-09-28T10:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=5672"},"modified":"2025-09-28T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:17:36","slug":"roxane-gay-civility-is-a-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2025\/09\/28\/roxane-gay-civility-is-a-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxane Gay: Civility is a Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roxane Gay, writing in the New York Times about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/24\/opinion\/civility-fantasy-power-kirk.html\">&#8220;civility&#8221; in discourse<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/25\/09\/0047584-fantastic-essay-by-roxane\">Kottke<\/a>; paywalled, but there&#8217;s a gift link in his post):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The context of the essay is the degenerating political environment in the US, but it applies elsewhere as well. In workplaces, it&#8217;s not uncommon to see management call for &#8220;civility&#8221; when they introduce policies that make staff justifiably <em>angry<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roxane Gay, writing in the New York Times about &#8220;civility&#8221; in discourse (via Kottke; paywalled, but there&#8217;s a gift link in his post): &#8220;Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2025\/09\/28\/roxane-gay-civility-is-a-fantasy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roxane Gay: Civility is a Fantasy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1975,1974,1976,1878],"class_list":["post-5672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-control","tag-discourse","tag-labour","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5676,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions\/5676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}