{"id":3700,"date":"2019-06-26T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/26\/the-political-burden-of-proof-polite-version\/"},"modified":"2019-06-26T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:55:21","slug":"the-political-burden-of-proof-polite-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/26\/the-political-burden-of-proof-polite-version\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Burden of Proof: Polite Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">As contemporary &#39;liberals&#39; become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I will call the&#0160;<em>political burden of proof<\/em>.&#0160; The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so&#0160; morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As contemporary &#39;liberals&#39; become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I will call the&#0160;political burden of proof.&#0160; The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so&#0160; morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-proof","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","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=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}