{"id":1394,"date":"2023-06-08T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/08\/the-leftist-as-denier-of-distinctions\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:43:12","slug":"the-leftist-as-denier-of-distinctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/08\/the-leftist-as-denier-of-distinctions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leftist as Denier of Distinctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The denial of distinctions is the subversion of thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A <em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/the-leftist-as-denier-of-distinctions?sd=pf\">quickie<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">One distinction the wokeassed cannot process is that between hate and dissent. To dissent from <em>what you say<\/em> is not to hate <em>you.&#0160; <\/em>Failure to grasp this simple distinction is predicated on a further failure, that of failing to grasp the distinction between a proposition and a person.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02b68539d27a200d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hammer sickle donkey\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02b68539d27a200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02b68539d27a200d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Hammer sickle donkey\" \/><\/a>&#39;Wokeass&#39; is appropriate invective because an ass is a donkey and the home of the &#39;woke&#39; in the USA is the Democrat Party the symbol of which is the jackass. Communists could not win here under the Hammer and Sickle but they are winning under under the sign of the Donkey. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Astride the Jackass at present is a man multiply defective: feeble in body, <em>non compos mentis<\/em>, morally corrupt to the core, devoid of principle, a traitor in dereliction of duty, and the mere puppet of hidden masters. Our geopolitical adversaries are licking their chops and preparing to pounce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">When you vote Dementocrat you are voting for the suicide of the West.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The denial of distinctions is the subversion of thought. A Substack quickie. One distinction the wokeassed cannot process is that between hate and dissent. To dissent from what you say is not to hate you.&#0160; Failure to grasp this simple distinction is predicated on a further failure, that of failing to grasp the distinction between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/08\/the-leftist-as-denier-of-distinctions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Leftist as Denier of Distinctions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,6,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invective","category-language-matters","category-polemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","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=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}