{"id":4932,"date":"2017-12-24T04:23:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T04:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/24\/no-distinctions-allowed-in-the-age-of-unthinking-groupthink\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T04:23:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T04:23:54","slug":"no-distinctions-allowed-in-the-age-of-unthinking-groupthink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/24\/no-distinctions-allowed-in-the-age-of-unthinking-groupthink\/","title":{"rendered":"No Distinctions Allowed in the Age of Unthinking GroupThink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Actor Matt Damon said this:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">We\u2019re going to have to figure &#8211; you know, there\u2019s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviours need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn\u2019t be conflated, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The bit &quot;eradicated without question&quot; throws a sizable sop to the dragons of matriarchal political correctness, but they are not satisfied. They cannot abide his entirely reasonable point that one must distinguish between the relatively innocuous, though no doubt offensive and to-be-avoided, butt pat on the one hand and rape and child molestation on the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And so a petition against his participation in an upcoming movie now bears 200,000 signatures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Welcome to the Age of Unthinking GroupThink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/matt-damon-oceans-8-petition-ro-remove-trailer-release-date-harvey-weinstein-commet-sexual-a8127041.html\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Matt Damon said this: We\u2019re going to have to figure &#8211; you know, there\u2019s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviours need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn\u2019t be conflated, right? The bit &quot;eradicated without question&quot; throws &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/24\/no-distinctions-allowed-in-the-age-of-unthinking-groupthink\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Distinctions Allowed in the Age of Unthinking GroupThink&#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":[180,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","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=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}