{"id":1369,"date":"2023-06-21T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/21\/my-pronouns\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:16:31","slug":"my-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/21\/my-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pronouns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Up yours!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The point, of course, is to not validate, by answering, the stupid question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This can be done in more or less polite ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You might say, politely, &quot;Your question rests on a presupposition that I reject, namely, that the DEI agenda is a good thing. Now move along and have a nice day.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Yesterday I received a solicitation for funds from an alma mater. I wrote back, &quot;I am in a position to make a substantial contribution, and will do so, but only on condition that you publicly renounce the DEI agenda and return to the true purposes of the university.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up yours! The point, of course, is to not validate, by answering, the stupid question. This can be done in more or less polite ways. You might say, politely, &quot;Your question rests on a presupposition that I reject, namely, that the DEI agenda is a good thing. Now move along and have a nice day.&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/21\/my-pronouns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Pronouns?&#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":[163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}