{"id":5532,"date":"2017-05-09T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/09\/coded-speech-and-the-hermeneutics-of-suspicion\/"},"modified":"2017-05-09T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:43:19","slug":"coded-speech-and-the-hermeneutics-of-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/09\/coded-speech-and-the-hermeneutics-of-suspicion\/","title":{"rendered":"Coded Speech and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"

To understand the Left you have to understand that central to their worldview is the hermeneutics of suspicion<\/em> which is essentially a diluted amalgam of themes from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus nothing has the plain meaning that it has; every meaning must be deconstructed so as to lay bare its 'real meaning.' Nothing is what it manifestly is; there is always something nefarious at work below the surface. (These last two sentence are 'in French': they sport universal quantifiers and thereby exaggerate for effect; you know how to dial them back so as to not give offense to your sober Anglo sensibility.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose a conservative says, sincerely, "The most qualified person should get the job."  Applying the hermeneutics of suspicion, the leftist takes the conservative to be speaking 'in code':  what he is really saying is something like:  "People of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race."<\/span><\/p>\n

But of course that is not what the conservative means; he means what he says. He means the the best qualified person should get the job regardless of race, sex, or creed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or suppose a conservative refers to  a black malefactor as a thug. What he has actually said, according to the hermeneutics of suspicion, is that the malefactor is a nigger.  But 'thug' does not mean 'nigger.'  'Thug' means thug<\/em>.  There are thugs of all races.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leftists often call for 'conversations' about this or that. Thus Barack Obama's first Attorney General, Eric Holder, famously called for a 'conversation' about race.  But how can one have a conversation — no sneer quotes — about anything with people who refuse to take what one sincerely says at face value?<\/span><\/p>\n

One of Donald Trump's signature sayings is "Make America great again!"<\/span><\/p>\n

To a leftist, this is a 'racist dog whistle.'  It doesn't mean what it manifestly  means; there is a latent sinister meaning  that we can thank Bill Clinton for exposing. It means<\/a> — wait for it – \u201cThat message . . . make America great again is if you\u2019re a white Southerner, you know exactly what it means, don\u2019t you. What it means is I\u2019ll give you an economy you had 50 years ago and I\u2019ll move you back up on the social totem and other people down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The irony is that Slick Willy used the same sentence himself!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here we come to the nub of the matter.  The typical liberal is a morally defective specimen of humanity who refuses to treat his political opponents as rational beings, as persons.  He dehumanizes them and treats them as if they are nothing but big balls of such affects as fear and hate bereft of rational justification for the views they hold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now read this entry<\/a> on the genetic fallacy. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To understand the Left you have to understand that central to their worldview is the hermeneutics of suspicion which is essentially a diluted amalgam of themes from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. Thus nothing has the plain meaning that it has; every meaning must be deconstructed so as to lay bare its 'real meaning.' Nothing is … Continue reading “Coded Speech and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion”<\/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":[231,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532","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=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}