{"id":3557,"date":"2019-10-10T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/leftist-omni-politicization-2\/"},"modified":"2019-10-10T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:08:09","slug":"leftist-omni-politicization-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/leftist-omni-politicization-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Omni-Politicization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For the Left, everything is either political or to be politicized, including that which is non-political. Take this to its logical extreme and you end up with &#39;woke&#39; mathematics. This <em>reductio ad absurdum<\/em> will cause a sane person to reject the premise. The sane will point out that some things, by their very nature, cannot be politicized. There is nothing political about the Poisson distribution or Rolle&#39;s theorem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Will the leftist back off? Hel<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">l no, he will deny that anything has a nature, and affirm that everything is subject to social construction. For example, a typical leftist will state that a conservative black is a traitor to his race. Now that makes no sense. &#39;Traitor&#39; is a political notion; &#39;race&#39; is not. Race is not like political affiliation. You can quit your party, and if you are a Democrat you should; you can&#39;t, however, quit your race. Not even <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2018\/05\/rachel-dolezal-up-against-the-limits-of-self-construction.html\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> could pull it off.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Being a leftist, however, means that you don&#39;t have to make sense. Herewith, a case of &#39;leftist privilege&#39;,&#39; to give it a name.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Left, everything is either political or to be politicized, including that which is non-political. Take this to its logical extreme and you end up with &#39;woke&#39; mathematics. This reductio ad absurdum will cause a sane person to reject the premise. The sane will point out that some things, by their very nature, cannot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/leftist-omni-politicization-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leftist Omni-Politicization&#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":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","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=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}