{"id":1499,"date":"2023-04-20T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/the-demented-dems-anti-reality-and-anti-virtue\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:33:36","slug":"the-demented-dems-anti-reality-and-anti-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/the-demented-dems-anti-reality-and-anti-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demented Dems: Anti-Reality and Anti-Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/20\/house-gop-votes-to-ban-transgender-athletes-from-womens-sports\/\">Anti-reality<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">House Republicans voted Thursday to ban transgender female athletes from taking part in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports by amending Title IX protections to only apply to biologically female athletes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steube.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/steube.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/steube_030_xml.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act<\/a>&#0160;passed 219-203, <strong>with no Democrats supporting the measure.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/apr\/18\/joe-biden-hike-payments-good-credit-homebuyers-sub\/\">Anti-virtue<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Homebuyers with good credit scores will soon encounter a costly surprise: a new federal rule forcing them to pay higher mortgage rates and fees to subsidize people with riskier credit ratings who are also in the market to buy houses.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">You see, self-control, self-reliance, deferral of gratification, financial responsibility and the like are &#39;white&#39; virtues, and therefore &#39;racist.&#39; &#39;Racists&#39; whether white or black need to be punished with higher mortgage rates.&#0160; &#39;Equity&#39; demands it. In fact, credit ratings as such are &#39;racist&#39; and &#39;white supremacist&#39; and need to go the way of the SAT.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-reality: House Republicans voted Thursday to ban transgender female athletes from taking part in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports by amending Title IX protections to only apply to biologically female athletes. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act&#0160;passed 219-203, with no Democrats supporting the measure. Anti-virtue: Homebuyers with good credit scores will soon encounter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/the-demented-dems-anti-reality-and-anti-virtue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Demented Dems: Anti-Reality and Anti-Virtue&#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":[180,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","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=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}