{"id":3682,"date":"2019-08-04T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T12:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/04\/define-or-drop\/"},"modified":"2019-08-04T12:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T12:46:27","slug":"define-or-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/04\/define-or-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Define or Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For leftists, words are weapons. If you are a lefty, and you disagree, then I invite you to define &#39;fascist,&#39; &#39;racist,&#39; &#39;white supremacist,&#39; and the rest of the epithets in your arsenal. Define &#39;em or drop &#39;em.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Show us that you are people of good will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Suppose I point out the incompatibility of Sharia with Western values and you call me an &#39;Islamophobe.&#39; You thereby demonstrate that you are <em>not<\/em>&#0160;a person of good will. &#0160;A person of good will does not dismiss the arguments of his rational interlocutor as driven by a phobia. &#0160;Here is a good illustration of what I mean when I say that for leftists, words are weapons, or as I also like to say, &quot;semantic bludgeons.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Although conservatives are far less offensive in this regard, they too must be held to the standard of <em>define or drop<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">There were those who called Obama a socialist. But there can be no reasonable discussion of whether he is or isn&#39;t without a preliminary clarification of the term. &#0160;If a socialist is one who advocates the collective or government ownership of the means of production, then I know of no statement of Obama&#39;s in which he advocated any such thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Am I being soft on one of the worst presidents in American history? No, I am just being fair.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For leftists, words are weapons. If you are a lefty, and you disagree, then I invite you to define &#39;fascist,&#39; &#39;racist,&#39; &#39;white supremacist,&#39; and the rest of the epithets in your arsenal. Define &#39;em or drop &#39;em. Show us that you are people of good will. Suppose I point out the incompatibility of Sharia with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/04\/define-or-drop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Define or Drop&#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":[6,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-political-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}