{"id":4778,"date":"2018-02-13T05:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T05:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/use-mention-quotation-marks-and-political-correctness\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T05:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T05:42:35","slug":"use-mention-quotation-marks-and-political-correctness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/use-mention-quotation-marks-and-political-correctness\/","title":{"rendered":"Use, Mention, ‘Quotation’ Marks, and Political Correctness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title of a recent Weekly Standard<\/em> article reads:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Uses 'N-Word,' Student Shouts 'F-You,' 'Free Speech' Class Canceled at Princeton.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I would write it like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor mentions<\/em> N-word [no inverted commas], Student Shouts 'F-You,' [correct use of inverted commas for quotation], 'Free Speech' Class Cancelled at Princeton [correct use of inverted commas as sneer quotes].<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pedantry aside, the real problem is in the following paragraph:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last week Prof. Rosen received national<\/a> attention for using the N-word in this class on freedom of expression. Some students walked out and protested the term\u2019s use. One report, cited in Princeton\u2019s main campus newspaper, says<\/a> that Rosen asked, \u201cWhat is worse, a white man punching a black man, or a white man calling a black man a n****r?\u201d And when Rosen was met with disagreement of his use of the N-word, and on his continued use of the term in the academic setting, he said, he would use it, \u201cif I think it\u2019s necessary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rosen didn't use the N-word, he mentioned it.  Rosen was talking about the word 'nigger' and asking whether it would be worse for a white man to punch a black man or to apply the word 'nigger' to him. That is a perfectly legitimate question and there is nothing racist about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also nothing racist about my mentioning<\/em> of the word in question in the second-to-last sentence.  I am talking about the word in the way I would be talking about it were I to say that it is disyllabic and consists of six letters.  I am not applying it to anyone. <\/span><\/p>\n

Which is worse, to punch a Jew (without provocation) or to apply 'kike' to him? Does it make one an anti-Semite to ask this question? Obviously not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the rest<\/a> to fully savor how the Left has destroyed the universities.  If you are thinking of an academic career in a non-STEM field you may want to think twice.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title of a recent Weekly Standard article reads: Professor Uses 'N-Word,' Student Shouts 'F-You,' 'Free Speech' Class Canceled at Princeton. I would write it like this: Professor mentions N-word [no inverted commas], Student Shouts 'F-You,' [correct use of inverted commas for quotation], 'Free Speech' Class Cancelled at Princeton [correct use of inverted commas as sneer … Continue reading “Use, Mention, ‘Quotation’ Marks, and Political Correctness”<\/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":[52,6,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","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=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}