{"id":5781,"date":"2017-02-13T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/13\/leftist-thuggery-and-abdication-of-authority\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:12:21","slug":"leftist-thuggery-and-abdication-of-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/13\/leftist-thuggery-and-abdication-of-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Thuggery and Abdication of Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Intolerant<\/a>Leftists complain that President Trump is 'authoritarian.' But given the abdication of authority on the part of university administrators who refuse to stand up to leftist thugs and refuse to defend such ideals of the university as free speech and free inquiry, a little 'authoritarianism' looks to be exactly what is needed.  It is the surrender of the university admins to the know-nothing and 'transgressive' rabble that would justify Trump's withholding of federal funds from institutions such as Cal Berkeley and NYU.  In fact, that is exactly what he should do.<\/span><\/p>\n

'Progressives' have an Orwellian understanding of tolerance.  There is nothing (classically) liberal about them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conservatives are the new liberals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Leftists complain that President Trump is 'authoritarian.' But given the abdication of authority on the part of university administrators who refuse to stand up to leftist thugs and refuse to defend such ideals of the university as free speech and free inquiry, a little 'authoritarianism' looks to be exactly what is needed.  It is the surrender … Continue reading “Leftist Thuggery and Abdication of Authority”<\/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":[52,498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-authority-and-its-abdication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","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=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}