{"id":3703,"date":"2019-06-26T04:42:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T04:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/26\/the-orwellian-left-and-abortion\/"},"modified":"2019-06-26T04:42:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T04:42:02","slug":"the-orwellian-left-and-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/26\/the-orwellian-left-and-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orwellian Left and Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For leftists, words are weapons. Nothing new here. If you have been paying attention, however, you will have noticed that their weaponization of language is becoming increasingly Orwellian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Case in point: OPPOSITION to abortion is now &#39;racist.&#39; &#39;Racist&#39; has long been a verbal cudgel in the hands (mouths?) of leftists, elastic in its meaning, but now an Orwellian twist is added. It makes some sense to say that abortion is &#39;racist&#39; because it di<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">sproportionately affects pre-natal blacks. But to say that OPPOSITION to abortion is racist is just insane. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Not only is truth not a leftist value, sense isn&#39;t either. Being a lefty means not having to make sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Democrats are now a hard-left party. So I ask one more time: Why are you still a Dem?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For leftists, words are weapons. Nothing new here. If you have been paying attention, however, you will have noticed that their weaponization of language is becoming increasingly Orwellian. Case in point: OPPOSITION to abortion is now &#39;racist.&#39; &#39;Racist&#39; has long been a verbal cudgel in the hands (mouths?) of leftists, elastic in its meaning, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/26\/the-orwellian-left-and-abortion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Orwellian Left and Abortion&#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":[313,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}