{"id":1599,"date":"2023-02-28T05:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T05:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/a-progressive-paradox-2\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T05:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T05:38:01","slug":"a-progressive-paradox-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/a-progressive-paradox-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Progressive&#8217; Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/a-progressive-paradox?sd=pf\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Leader<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> of the <em>Stack.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Leftists like to call themselves &#39;progressives.&#39;&#0160; We can&#39;t or rather ought not begrudge them their self-appellation any more than we can begrudge the Randians their calling themselves &#39;objectivists.&#39;&#0160; Every person and every movement has the right to portray himself or itself favorably and self-servingly.&#0160; &quot;We are <em>objective<\/em> in our approach, unlike you <a href=\"http:\/\/aynrandlexicon.com\/lexicon\/mysticism.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_self\">mystics<\/a>.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">But if you are progressive, why are you stuck in the past when it comes to race?&#0160; Progress has been made in this area; why then do you deny the progress that has been made?&#0160; Why do you hanker after the old days? Why, Mr. President, do you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2023\/02\/17\/biden_touts_anti-lynching_bill_at_emmet_till_event_white_families_gathered_to_celebrate_the_spectacle.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">go on<\/a> about lynching?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Read it all. Pithy, on target, true.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Stack. Leftists like to call themselves &#39;progressives.&#39;&#0160; We can&#39;t or rather ought not begrudge them their self-appellation any more than we can begrudge the Randians their calling themselves &#39;objectivists.&#39;&#0160; Every person and every movement has the right to portray himself or itself favorably and self-servingly.&#0160; &quot;We are objective in our approach, unlike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/28\/a-progressive-paradox-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A &#8216;Progressive&#8217; Paradox&#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":[163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","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=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}