{"id":3976,"date":"2019-02-04T10:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/proof-that-i-am-a-native-american\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T10:21:27","slug":"proof-that-i-am-a-native-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/proof-that-i-am-a-native-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof that I am a Native American"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back a front page story in the  local rag of record, The Arizona Republic<\/em>, implied  that one is either a native American, a black, or an Anglo. Now with my kind of surname, I am certainly no Anglo. And even though I am a 'person of color,' my color inclining toward a sort of tanned ruddiness, I am undoubtedly not black either.<\/span><\/p>\n

It follows that I am a native American. This conclusion is independently supported by the following argument:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. I am a native Californian.<\/span>
2. California is in America.<\/span>
3. If x is native to locality L, and L is within the boundaries of M, then x is a native M-er.<\/span>
Therefore<\/span>
4. I am a native American.<\/span><\/p>\n

This argument is impeccable in point of logical form, and sports manifestly true premises. What more do you want?<\/span><\/p>\n

Note that (2) is true whether 'America' is taken to refer to the USA or to the continent of North America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us also observe that since I am a native American, it cannot be the case that "we are all immigrants" as far too many 'liberal' knuckleheads like to claim.<\/span><\/p>\n

We need more mockery of 'liberals.' There is little point in attempts to engage them on the plane of reason, for that is not the plane they inhabit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Slavoj Zizek remarks<\/a> (jokingly I think) that  \u2018native Americans\u2019 hate this term, mentioning one who preferred to be call an \u2018Indian\u2019 on the ground that \u2018native\u2019 American is racist. For it means that someone so denominated  is part of nature, and is therefore beneath the cultural American. The Indian in question prefers to be called an \u2018Indian\u2019 for this moniker implies the white man's stupidity. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back a front page story in the  local rag of record, The Arizona Republic, implied  that one is either a native American, a black, or an Anglo. Now with my kind of surname, I am certainly no Anglo. And even though I am a 'person of color,' my color inclining toward a sort of … Continue reading “Proof that I am a Native American”<\/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":[6,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","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=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}