{"id":5149,"date":"2017-10-13T05:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T05:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/is-good-faith-dialogue-possible-with-leftists\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T05:42:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T05:42:41","slug":"is-good-faith-dialogue-possible-with-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/is-good-faith-dialogue-possible-with-leftists\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Good Faith Dialogue Possible with Leftists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arguably not<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our \u201cmainstream conservative\u201d is a pathetic hostage to the Left. He somehow hasn\u2019t yet realized that the Left is hell-bent on branding everything \u201cracist\u201d regardless of whether the label has any basis whatsoever in either reason or reality. Things are so bad that a progressive merely has to threaten<\/em> to play the \u201cyou\u2019re a racist\u201d card, and our \u201cmainstream conservative\u201d will do anything, including betray his own staff<\/a>, to save face with a crowd that has already decided that he is irredeemable: nothing more than the political and moral equivalent of white supremacists and neo-Nazi fascists. He hasn\u2019t developed sufficient contempt for this judgment, I suppose, or perhaps he really believes that he can change it by engaging with them in good faith. He cannot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. Conservatives need to realize that leftists are enemies<\/em>, not co-inhabitants of the plane of reasoned dialog. They will do anything to win. An indication of this is the ever more prevalent use of 'white supremacist' to smear conservatives.  Traditional conservative values prevent too many of us from replying in kind and giving the scumbags a taste of their own medicine. <\/span><\/p>\n

But the times they are are a'changing. A good indication thereof is the election of Donald J. Trump. He knows how to punch back, and decorum be damned. Civility is for the civil. There comes a time for incivility assuming you care to preserve a space in which such values as civility can flourish.<\/span><\/p>\n

………………………<\/span><\/p>\n

Reader  RP writes,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Solzhenitsyn wrote in November 1916, "By his own experience, Colonel Vorotyntsev comes to realize that 'educated people were more cowardly when confronted by left-wing loudmouths than in face of machine guns.'\u201d <\/p>\n

The " mainstream conservative" is no different.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Arguably not: Our \u201cmainstream conservative\u201d is a pathetic hostage to the Left. He somehow hasn\u2019t yet realized that the Left is hell-bent on branding everything \u201cracist\u201d regardless of whether the label has any basis whatsoever in either reason or reality. Things are so bad that a progressive merely has to threaten to play the \u201cyou\u2019re a racist\u201d … Continue reading “Is Good Faith Dialogue Possible with Leftists?”<\/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":[163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","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=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}