{"id":1463,"date":"2023-05-08T12:11:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/rockland-county-to-nyc\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:11:27","slug":"rockland-county-to-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/rockland-county-to-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockland County to NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

A massive middle-fingered 'salute.'<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Quite rightly. ('Quite rightly' is in my head because I heard Donovan's Mellow Yellow<\/a> on the way to the range Friday morning. Donovan uses 'quite' to mean entirely, but in American English at least it also can mean somewhat.  Does it have both senses in British English?)<\/span><\/p>\n

The article mentions 'migrants.'  Conservatives should not acquiesce in leftist-prog-'woke' language abuse. There are two distinctions here that ought to be respected: illegal-legal; immigrant-emigrant.<\/span><\/p>\n

'Migrant' manages to elide both distinctions in one fell swoop. Par for the course for a leftist journo. But dumb is the conservative journalist who plays along.<\/span><\/p>\n

'lllegal immigrant' and illegal aliens' are the correct terms for what the article calls 'migrants.'<\/span><\/p>\n

Language matters. It's a war. Subversion of language is the mother of all subversion. Don't let the 'mothers' get away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

"But no person is illegal!" But who ever said that any person was? (I can explain the point here if you need it explained. Better yet: you tell me what my point is in the combox.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rockland County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A massive middle-fingered 'salute.' Quite rightly. ('Quite rightly' is in my head because I heard Donovan's Mellow Yellow on the way to the range Friday morning. Donovan uses 'quite' to mean entirely, but in American English at least it also can mean somewhat.  Does it have both senses in British English?) The article mentions 'migrants.'  … Continue reading “Rockland County to NYC”<\/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":[26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","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=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}