{"id":35,"date":"2025-08-16T03:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/asylum-seekers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:44:51","slug":"asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Asylum Seekers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Is a home invader an asylum seeker? Only in very rare cases.&#0160; So why are people who immigrate illegally called asylum seekers? A few are but most are not. What we have here, once again, is the characteristic &#39;progressive&#39; abuse of language. You should have learned by now that no word or phrase is safe around a leftist. Conservatives are not against asylum; they are against the abuse of asylum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">At the same time that so-called progressives abuse &#39;asylum,&#39; they also abuse &#39;xenophobic&#39; when they apply this term to those of us who stand for the rule of law. You are one dumb conservative if you acquiesce in the Left&#39;s abuse of language.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If you are a conservative, don&#39;t talk like a &#39;liberal.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">He who controls the terms of the debate controls the debate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a home invader an asylum seeker? Only in very rare cases.&#0160; So why are people who immigrate illegally called asylum seekers? A few are but most are not. What we have here, once again, is the characteristic &#39;progressive&#39; abuse of language. You should have learned by now that no word or phrase is safe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/asylum-seekers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Asylum Seekers&#8217;&#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":[26,6,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-language-matters","category-political-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}