{"id":3023,"date":"2020-07-13T10:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/dont-talk-like-a-liberal-3\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T10:35:17","slug":"dont-talk-like-a-liberal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/dont-talk-like-a-liberal-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Talk Like a &#8216;Liberal&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">When you do, you validate their obfuscatory and question-begging jargon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For example, leftists believe in something they call &#39;hate speech.&#39; As they use the phrase, it covers legitimate dissent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It is foolish for a conservative to say that he is for &#39;hate speech,&#39; or that &#39;hate speech&#39; is protected speech. Dennis Prager has been known to make this mistake. We conservatives are for open inquiry&#0160; and the right to dissent. Put it that way, in positive terms.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">If leftists take our dissent as &#39;hateful,&#39; that is their presumably willful misapprehension. We shouldn&#39;t validate it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Don&#39;t let leftists frame the debate. He who controls the terms of the debate controls the debate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you do, you validate their obfuscatory and question-begging jargon. For example, leftists believe in something they call &#39;hate speech.&#39; As they use the phrase, it covers legitimate dissent. It is foolish for a conservative to say that he is for &#39;hate speech,&#39; or that &#39;hate speech&#39; is protected speech. Dennis Prager has been known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/dont-talk-like-a-liberal-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t Talk Like a &#8216;Liberal&#8217;!&#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":[6,245,43,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-polemics","category-political-language","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","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=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}