{"id":2067,"date":"2022-05-03T04:46:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T04:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/03\/what-is-the-most-pernicious-of-the-lefts-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T04:46:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T04:46:44","slug":"what-is-the-most-pernicious-of-the-lefts-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/03\/what-is-the-most-pernicious-of-the-lefts-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Most Pernicious of the Left’s Errors?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contemporary leftists (cultural<\/em> Marxists) deny that there is a reality antecedent to our classifications and conceptualizations. (V. I. Lenin was of course an exception along with other classical<\/em> Marxists.) Everything becomes a socio-political construct. How convenient for identity-political totalitarians! The bird of reality can be carved up in any way that suits the will to power of some interest group — because there is no bird to carve. Avis rara in excelsis!<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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Next stop: the Twilight Zone. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Rachel Dolezal is black. Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee. Warren, a.k.a. 'Fauxcahontas,' despite her contribution of a recipe for lobster bisque to Pow Wow Chow<\/em>, that must-have cookbook for the bien- pensant<\/em>, is the Rachel Dolezal of American politics. Continuing in the alimentary mode, Warren cooked her own goose anent her presidential pretensions, and is now 'toast.' <\/span><\/div>\n
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But why can't a cooked goose 're-imagine' herself as toast?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contemporary leftists (cultural Marxists) deny that there is a reality antecedent to our classifications and conceptualizations. (V. I. Lenin was of course an exception along with other classical Marxists.) Everything becomes a socio-political construct. How convenient for identity-political totalitarians! The bird of reality can be carved up in any way that suits the will to … Continue reading “What is the Most Pernicious of the Left’s Errors?”<\/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":[163,245,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-polemics","category-political-wit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","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=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}