{"id":4781,"date":"2018-02-12T05:10:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T05:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/12\/can-a-coin-toss-be-racist\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T05:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T05:10:41","slug":"can-a-coin-toss-be-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/12\/can-a-coin-toss-be-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Coin Toss be Racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/node\/456295\/print\">Why not?<\/a> If everything is racist, then so is a coin toss. On the other hand, if everything is racist, then nothing is racist in any useful sense of &#39;racist.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Horribile dictu<\/em>, there is nothing so stupid that some race-baiting leftist won&#39;t say it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I have a whole category on contrast arguments. Said category is most felicitously appellated, <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/contrast-arguments\/\">Contrast Arguments<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why not? If everything is racist, then so is a coin toss. On the other hand, if everything is racist, then nothing is racist in any useful sense of &#39;racist.&#39; Horribile dictu, there is nothing so stupid that some race-baiting leftist won&#39;t say it. I have a whole category on contrast arguments. Said category is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/12\/can-a-coin-toss-be-racist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can a Coin Toss be Racist?&#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":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","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=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}