{"id":1651,"date":"2023-02-01T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/resist-resist-resist\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T09:17:15","slug":"resist-resist-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/resist-resist-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"resist, Resist, RESIST!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Seemingly, no day without a &#39;woke&#39; outrage.&#0160; See below. Beneath refutation. There&#39;s no point in trying to engage these clowns on the plane of reason. Mock, deride, resist, and above all: ignore <em>the A.P.&#39;s&#0160;<\/em> asinine recommendations.&#0160; By the way, &#39;asinine&#39; is spelled exactly as I just spelled it, and not &#39;assinine&#39; despite the fact that L. <em>asinus<\/em> mean ass or donkey. So if&#0160; I call you a <em>wokeass<\/em>, I am saying <em>inter alia<\/em> that you are donkey-dumb, the ass being the totemic animal of the Democrat Party.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Write and speak sentences like this: &quot;The Germans are more rule-bound than the Italians.&quot; Not only does this sentence violate the A. P. recommendation, thereby resisting willful wokester self-enstupidation, it is also offensive to the <em>wokeassed<\/em> on the ground of its being a generic statement. &quot;One must never generalize!&quot;&#0160; But I just did, and so did you. The difference is that my generalization is true whereas yours is self-refuting. Try thinking for a change, and you just might think your way out of your <em>wokeassery<\/em>. Since I care about and you and your sanity, I recommend that you study my <em>Substack<\/em> article <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/generic-statements\">Generic Statements<\/a>.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AP&#39;s tweet lumping &quot;the French&quot; in with list of &quot;dehumanizing&quot; labels.\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/twitter-ap-french-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=744\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly, no day without a &#39;woke&#39; outrage.&#0160; See below. Beneath refutation. There&#39;s no point in trying to engage these clowns on the plane of reason. Mock, deride, resist, and above all: ignore the A.P.&#39;s&#0160; asinine recommendations.&#0160; By the way, &#39;asinine&#39; is spelled exactly as I just spelled it, and not &#39;assinine&#39; despite the fact that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/resist-resist-resist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;resist, Resist, RESIST!&#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":[6,163,43,214,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-political-language","category-reading-and-writing","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}