{"id":11232,"date":"2010-10-13T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/13\/self-censorship-among-the-politically-correct\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T11:22:13","slug":"self-censorship-among-the-politically-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/13\/self-censorship-among-the-politically-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Censorship Among the Politically Correct"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no chicken like a liberal chicken.  Here<\/a>.  Prager's comment: "Secular + Liberal = Wimp."<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 10\/14.  Reason<\/em> magazine weighs in.  Just Admit it, Newspapers: You're Scared of Muslims<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course.  The self-censorship is motivated by fear.  And it is a rational fear, which is why 'Islamophobia' and cognates are idiotic constructions that ought to be shunned by the intelligent.  Must I point out once again that a phobia is an irrational<\/em> fear? So why do our leftist pals sling this word?<\/span><\/p>\n

Some leftists sincerely believe that the concern over radical Islam is alarmist.  But most leftists know that it is not alarmist.  It is just that they hate conservatives more than they hate the threat to their own values.  They hate conservatives so much that they cannot or will not admit that they have more in common with contemporary American conservatives than they do with radical Muslims.  Astonishing, but true.  Apparently, they think they can use the Islamists, as a species of 'useful idiot,' to help destroy capitalism and usher in the socialist worker's paradise, dismissing or converting the Islamists when their services are no longer needed.  It's a bad bet.  It is more likely that they will lose their heads before any dismissal or conversion or mollification or other normalization of Islamists occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no chicken like a liberal chicken.  Here.  Prager's comment: "Secular + Liberal = Wimp." UPDATE 10\/14.  Reason magazine weighs in.  Just Admit it, Newspapers: You're Scared of Muslims. Of course.  The self-censorship is motivated by fear.  And it is a rational fear, which is why 'Islamophobia' and cognates are idiotic constructions that ought … Continue reading “Self-Censorship Among the Politically Correct”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}