{"id":4539,"date":"2018-05-09T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/09\/why-i-left-the-left\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:30:24","slug":"why-i-left-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/09\/why-i-left-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"David Rubin: Why I Left the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">David Rubin, who describes himself as gay, pro-choice, and classically liberal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/05\/08\/why_i_left_the_left.html\">explains<\/a> why &#39;progressives&#39; are in fact <em>regressive<\/em>. (A point I have made many times.) A Prager U video under five minutes in length.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Trigger Warning! The video contains vicious, racist, incendiary content sure to melt snowflakes. Richly deserving of being &#39;demonetized&#39; by Google if it hasn&#39;t been already. [Irony off]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Rubin, like so many others including Tucker Carlson, makes the standard mistake of conflating race with skin color.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rubin, who describes himself as gay, pro-choice, and classically liberal, explains why &#39;progressives&#39; are in fact regressive. (A point I have made many times.) A Prager U video under five minutes in length.&#0160;&#0160; Trigger Warning! The video contains vicious, racist, incendiary content sure to melt snowflakes. Richly deserving of being &#39;demonetized&#39; by Google if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/09\/why-i-left-the-left\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Rubin: Why I Left the Left&#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":[260,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversions","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","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=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}