{"id":4227,"date":"2018-09-16T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/16\/more-proof-that-progressives-are-morally-obtuse\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T14:06:12","slug":"more-proof-that-progressives-are-morally-obtuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/16\/more-proof-that-progressives-are-morally-obtuse\/","title":{"rendered":"More Proof that &#8216;Progressives&#8217; are Morally Obtuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2018\/09\/16\/twitter-political-bias-abortion-politics-planned-parenthood-social-media-column\/1255803002\/\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Re<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">: Twitter&#39;s Content Blockage:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Some examples of this supposedly offensive&#0160;content&#0160;<a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Emails-between-Live-Action-and-Twitter.pdf\">include&#0160;<\/a>pictures of children developing in the womb and even simple ultrasound images of babies \u2014 like&#0160;the ones that expectant parents hang on their refrigerator doors.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Twitter&#39;s actions suggest&#0160;it\u2019s OK&#0160;for Planned Parenthood&#0160;to tweet that a woman has a right to an abortion, but when I tweet and try to promote&#0160;that a&#0160;<a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Emails-between-Live-Action-and-Twitter.pdf\">baby has a right to life<\/a>, Twitter considers that inflammatory.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Twitter&#39;s actions suggest it&#39;s fine&#0160;for Planned Parenthood to tweet that taxpayers who don\u2019t want to fund the nation\u2019s largest abortion chain are &quot;<a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/twitter-wont-let-live-action-advertise-pro-life-arguments\/\">extremists<\/a>,&quot; but when I tweet&#0160;that there are alternative options to&#0160;Planned Parenthood, Twitter calls that an offensive violation of policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And you are <em>still<\/em> a Democrat?&#0160; Please be aware of what you are voting for when you vote Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: Twitter&#39;s Content Blockage: Some examples of this supposedly offensive&#0160;content&#0160;include&#0160;pictures of children developing in the womb and even simple ultrasound images of babies \u2014 like&#0160;the ones that expectant parents hang on their refrigerator doors.&#0160; Twitter&#39;s actions suggest&#0160;it\u2019s OK&#0160;for Planned Parenthood&#0160;to tweet that a woman has a right to an abortion, but when I tweet and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/16\/more-proof-that-progressives-are-morally-obtuse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Proof that &#8216;Progressives&#8217; are Morally Obtuse&#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":[313,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","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=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}