{"id":4507,"date":"2018-05-22T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/conservative-resistance-on-the-language-front\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:14:53","slug":"conservative-resistance-on-the-language-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/conservative-resistance-on-the-language-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Resistance on the Language Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">One form conservative resistance takes is insistence on one&#39;s right to use standard English and oppose innovations. But it ought to be a tolerant resistance, one that permits the politically correct to speak and write as they wish so along that do not try to impose their foolishness upon us.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/10\/political-correctness-and-gender-neutral-language.html\">Political Correctness and Gender-Neutral Language<\/a>.&#0160; Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">. . . the use of PC jargon aids and abets the Left&#39;s tendency to inject politics into everything.&#0160; The Left is totalitarian by its very nature and so it cannot leave any sphere of human concern unpoliticized.&#0160; For a conservative to employ PC jargon is therefore very foolish.&#0160; As I have said dozens of times in these pages, conservatives should not talk like liberals.&#0160; Battles in the culture war are often fought and won on linguistic ground, and we conservatives should not acquiesce in the Left&#39;s&#0160;acts of linguistic vandalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One form conservative resistance takes is insistence on one&#39;s right to use standard English and oppose innovations. But it ought to be a tolerant resistance, one that permits the politically correct to speak and write as they wish so along that do not try to impose their foolishness upon us.&#0160; Related: Political Correctness and Gender-Neutral &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/conservative-resistance-on-the-language-front\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conservative Resistance on the Language Front&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","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=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}