{"id":1568,"date":"2023-03-16T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T09:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/of-wokery-and-merit\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T09:53:02","slug":"of-wokery-and-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/of-wokery-and-merit\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Wokery and Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Destructive, anti-civilizational wokesters are not just against merit, they are positively <em>for<\/em> anti-merit, dysfunction, incompetence, stupidity, corruption, malevolence, and more. Qualifications don&#39;t matter; &#39;wokifications&#39; matter: being black, female, lesbian, cognitively impaired, truth-insensitive, reality-denying, physically feeble, morally corrupt.&#0160; Mayorkas, Fetterman, Buttigieg, practically the whole of the Biden administration.&#0160; After watching this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?526360-1\/faa-nominee-challenged-qualifications-confirmation-hearing\">C-SPAN video<\/a> will you tell me that Phil Washington is qualified to head the Federal Aviation Administration? Qualified or &#39;wokified&#39;? Is being &#39;woke&#39; and &#39;diverse&#39; a qualification?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Suppose you question whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/john-fetterman-could-remain-hospitalized-for-2-more-weeks-as-docs-try-to-get-meds-exactly-right-report\/ar-AA18DsFm\">John Fetterman<\/a> is qualified to be a U. S. Senator given his mental and physical impairment. You will be called an &#39;ableist.&#39; What&#39;s next? &#39;Qualificationist?&#39; &quot;You&#39;re a white-spremacist <em>qualificationist<\/em>! You believe people need to be qualified for the positions they apply for!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You will never understand the Left until you understand that they reliably take the side of losers, underdogs, and criminals, who comprise their clientele and path to power.&#0160; And with lefties it is always about power, first and forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5576905\/Homeowner-78-arrested-burglar-stabbed-death-break-in.html?ito=social-facebook\">Here<\/a>&#0160;we read about a 78-year-old Englishman who, in defending himself against a screwdriver-wielding home invader, caused the miscreant&#39;s death and is now facing a murder charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Dear old England, the mother country. It is sad to see your mother, senile and decrepit, go down the toilet, having lost all her moral sense and the will to live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Once again one sees the justification for my <em>political burden of proof<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">As contemporary &#39;liberals&#39; become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I call the&#0160;<em>political burden of proof<\/em>.&#0160; The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so&#0160; morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Actually, that is far too mild a statement. Perhaps tomorrow I will tell you what I really think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">UPDATE (3\/17).&#0160; I say above that leftists reliably take the side of criminals. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/03\/the-age-of-reason.php\">proof<\/a>, as if more proof is needed:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">THE AGE OF REASON?<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I wrote&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/03\/getting-it-good-and-hard.php\">here<\/a>&#0160;about Hennepin County, Minnesota\u2019s left-wing prosecutor who let off two juveniles (the older aged 17) who murdered a woman in the course of a home invasion. This was part of her stated rationale:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">[County Attorney Mary] Moriarty has said she is simply \u201cfollowing the science,\u201d which she says is conclusive about adolescent brain development. According to Moriarty, the human brain is not fully developed until 25 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Which is why, according to Moriarty, \u201cwe need to treat kids like kids.\u201d As opposed to treating murderers like murderers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/03\/the-age-of-reason.php\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Read it all.<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Why is &#39;Minnesnowta&#39; such a hot-bed of anti-civilizational wokeassery? Does the cold clime freeze their brains unto willful self-enstupidation?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destructive, anti-civilizational wokesters are not just against merit, they are positively for anti-merit, dysfunction, incompetence, stupidity, corruption, malevolence, and more. Qualifications don&#39;t matter; &#39;wokifications&#39; matter: being black, female, lesbian, cognitively impaired, truth-insensitive, reality-denying, physically feeble, morally corrupt.&#0160; Mayorkas, Fetterman, Buttigieg, practically the whole of the Biden administration.&#0160; After watching this C-SPAN video will you tell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/of-wokery-and-merit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Wokery and Merit&#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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}