{"id":11340,"date":"2010-09-05T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T06:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/05\/bigot-and-anti-bigot\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T06:56:15","slug":"bigot-and-anti-bigot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/05\/bigot-and-anti-bigot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigot and Anti-Bigot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">If the bigot unreasonably and uncritically rejects what is different just because it is different, the anti-bigot unreasonably and uncritically accepts the different just because it is different.&#0160; No doubt some conservatives are bigots.&#0160; But some liberals are too: they unreasonably and uncritically reject conservatism.&#0160; What&#39;s more, there are plenty of liberal <em>anti-bigots<\/em> whose knee-jerk inclusivity makes them useful idiots in the hands of our Islamist enemies.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It is bad to be a bigot, but it is also bad to be an anti-bigot. Some liberals are bigots and some are anti-bigots.&#0160; Some conservatives are bigots but almost none are anti-bigots.&#0160; It looks as if conservatives gain the edge in this little comparison.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the bigot unreasonably and uncritically rejects what is different just because it is different, the anti-bigot unreasonably and uncritically accepts the different just because it is different.&#0160; No doubt some conservatives are bigots.&#0160; But some liberals are too: they unreasonably and uncritically reject conservatism.&#0160; What&#39;s more, there are plenty of liberal anti-bigots whose knee-jerk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/05\/bigot-and-anti-bigot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bigot and Anti-Bigot&#8221;<\/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":[39,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-psychology-and-personality-typology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340","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=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}