{"id":3457,"date":"2019-12-12T03:58:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T03:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/12\/like-islamists-leftists-hate-apostates\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T03:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T03:58:33","slug":"like-islamists-leftists-hate-apostates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/12\/like-islamists-leftists-hate-apostates\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Islamists, Leftists Hate Apostates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">David Horowitz,&#0160;<em>Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey<\/em>&#0160;(Spence Publishing, 2003), pp. 274-276:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The radical commitment is less a political than a moral choice. Leaving the faith is a traumatic experience because it involves an involuntary severing of communal ties. That is why &quot;political correctness&quot; is a habit of the progressive mind \u2013 it is the line of fear that holds the flock in check.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">No greater caution exists for those tempted to leave the faith than the charge of &quot;selling out.&quot; Prior to the temptation, leaving the faith is inconceivable, a sign that one is no longer a good person. Only pathological behavior \u2013 a lust for money or some other benefit \u2013 could explain to a leftist the decision to join the opposition. To the progressive mind, no decent person could ever freely make such a choice. Even in the post-communist world, the most untheoretical progressive remains in this way a vulgar marxist despite all that has historically transpired. The fact that Peter [Collier] and I actually lost opportunities for personal gain as a result of our change of heart made no impression on out former comrades, who labeled us &quot;renegades&quot; and accused us of selling out just the same.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Horowitz,&#0160;Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey&#0160;(Spence Publishing, 2003), pp. 274-276: The radical commitment is less a political than a moral choice. Leaving the faith is a traumatic experience because it involves an involuntary severing of communal ties. That is why &quot;political correctness&quot; is a habit of the progressive mind \u2013 it is the line of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/12\/like-islamists-leftists-hate-apostates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Like Islamists, Leftists Hate Apostates&#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":[232,453,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostasy","category-horowitz-david","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","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=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}