{"id":1170,"date":"2023-10-27T19:48:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/islamophobia-and-hoplophobia\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T19:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:48:42","slug":"islamophobia-and-hoplophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/islamophobia-and-hoplophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Islamophobia&#8217; and &#8216;Hoplophobia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A very polite Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/islamophobia-and-hoplophobia?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">chiding<\/a> of the stupid and often vicious use of these terms. My entry shows how to make a point rationally and stylishly without any use of invective and only the slightest trace of sarcasm. You have to cultivate the ability to write in a civil and respectful way. But you must also know how to pummel and deride scum like the present POTUS and his sorry entourage who, in their willful self-enstupidation, mindlessly repeat phrases they have heard with nary a concern for what they mean or ought to mean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Different strokes for different folks. Sweet reason for some; the hard fist of unreason for others. The &#39;hard fist&#39; comes in two flavors, one verbal, the other meta-verbal.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very polite Substack chiding of the stupid and often vicious use of these terms. My entry shows how to make a point rationally and stylishly without any use of invective and only the slightest trace of sarcasm. You have to cultivate the ability to write in a civil and respectful way. But you must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/islamophobia-and-hoplophobia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Islamophobia&#8217; and &#8216;Hoplophobia&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,119,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-islamism","category-language-matters","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","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=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}