{"id":1452,"date":"2023-05-12T04:12:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/asylum-seekers-2\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T04:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:12:03","slug":"asylum-seekers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/asylum-seekers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Asylum Seekers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Is a home invader an asylum seeker? Only in very rare cases.&#0160; So why are people who immigrate illegally called asylum seekers? A few are but most are not. What we have here, once again, is the characteristic &#39;progressive&#39; abuse of language.&#0160; At the same time that so-called progressives abuse &#39;asylum,&#39; they also abuse &#39;xenophobic&#39; when they apply this terms to those of us who stand for the rule of law.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You are one dumb conservative if you acquiesce in the Left&#39;s abuse of language.&#0160; He who controls the terms of the debate controls the debate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a home invader an asylum seeker? Only in very rare cases.&#0160; So why are people who immigrate illegally called asylum seekers? A few are but most are not. What we have here, once again, is the characteristic &#39;progressive&#39; abuse of language.&#0160; At the same time that so-called progressives abuse &#39;asylum,&#39; they also abuse &#39;xenophobic&#39; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/asylum-seekers-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Asylum Seekers&#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":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","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=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}