{"id":4839,"date":"2018-01-23T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/but-thats-not-who-we-are\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T05:00:19","slug":"but-thats-not-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/but-thats-not-who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"“But that’s not Who We are!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, who are we then?  That piece of liberal misdirection and obfuscation, the vacuous phrase, 'Who we are,' is in need of sober critique. Paul Gottfried provides it. Here<\/a> is a chunk of his text:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It seems statements can only contradict \u201cwho we are\u201d if they\u2019re expressed past the point in time that the media decided they were no longer allowed. So President Clinton was not<\/em> being homophobic when he pushed successfully for the Defense of Marriage Act.<\/a> That\u2019s because he did that in 1996, before gay marriage became an integral part of \u201cwho we are.\u201d And Richard Durbin was not<\/em> being un-American when he called for ending \u201cchain migration\u201d on the floor of the Senate in 2010<\/a>, since the Left had not yet made the term and the policy it refers to incompatible with \u201cwho we are.\u201d Durbin would later go after President Trump for using that exact same expression because it offends black citizens whose ancestors \u201cwere brought here in chains.\u201d Ditto when the very liberal Senator Edward Kennedy assured critics<\/a> of the 1965 immigration reform bill that the legislation would not \u201cupset the ethnic mix\u201d in the United States and would \u201cnot inundate America with immigrants from\u2026the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia.\u201d Back then, the left could say such things without being in violation of \u201cwho we are.\u201d That\u2019s because it was not yet going after Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I would add that when such stealth ideologues as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Obama, Durbin and the rest seemed to have changed their views, that was not what was really going on. They were leftists all along. They merely mouthed sane positions on marriage and immigration because it was politically advantageous for them to do so at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, who are we then?  That piece of liberal misdirection and obfuscation, the vacuous phrase, 'Who we are,' is in need of sober critique. Paul Gottfried provides it. Here is a chunk of his text: It seems statements can only contradict \u201cwho we are\u201d if they\u2019re expressed past the point in time that the media … Continue reading ““But that’s not Who We are!””<\/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-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","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=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}