{"id":2769,"date":"2020-12-30T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T08:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/30\/wokespeak-and-wokespoke\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T08:33:54","slug":"wokespeak-and-wokespoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/30\/wokespeak-and-wokespoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Wokespeak and Wokespoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/12\/a-guide-to-wokespeak\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=right-rail&amp;utm_content=top-stories&amp;utm_term=third\">Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><span class=\"small_caps\">\u201cEquity.\u201d <\/span>Equity has now replaced the Civil Rights\u2013era goal of \u201cequality\u201d \u2014 a word relegated to vestigial Wokespoke. After 60 years, equality apparently was exposed as a retrograde bourgeois synonym for the loaded \u201cequality of opportunity\u201d rather than a necessary, mandated \u201cequality of result.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">And rightly so, since any and every inequality of outcome can only be explained by something nefarious such as racism or sexism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/schmitt-carl\/\">The Secularization of the Judeo-Christian Equality Axiom<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here: \u201cEquity.\u201d Equity has now replaced the Civil Rights\u2013era goal of \u201cequality\u201d \u2014 a word relegated to vestigial Wokespoke. After 60 years, equality apparently was exposed as a retrograde bourgeois synonym for the loaded \u201cequality of opportunity\u201d rather than a necessary, mandated \u201cequality of result.\u201d And rightly so, since any and every inequality of outcome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/30\/wokespeak-and-wokespoke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wokespeak and Wokespoke&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","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=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}