{"id":633,"date":"2024-08-02T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/michael-anton-on-celebration-parallax\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:48:13","slug":"michael-anton-on-celebration-parallax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/michael-anton-on-celebration-parallax\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Anton on &#8220;Celebration Parallax&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/you-are-the-enemy\/\">Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">More tellingly, this charge is an example of something I call the \u201ccelebration parallax,\u201d which is explained&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/thats-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is\/\">here<\/a>. In brief, the celebration parallax holds that the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it and, crucially, the perceived intent of the speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">So if someone says that the U.S. is experiencing levels of immigration that are&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/newcriterion.com\/article\/unprecedented\/\" onclick=\"javascript:window.open(&#39;https:\/\/newcriterion.com\/article\/unprecedented\/&#39;, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;noopener&#39;); return false;\">unprecedented<\/a>&#0160;in human history, if it\u2019s presumed or suspected that he might have doubts, then he is an evil racist. But when&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov\/textonly\/WH\/New\/html\/19980615-12352.html\" onclick=\"javascript:window.open(&#39;https:\/\/clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov\/textonly\/WH\/New\/html\/19980615-12352.html&#39;, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;noopener&#39;); return false;\">Bill Clinton<\/a>&#0160;or&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/flashback-joe-biden-constant-unrelenting-immigration\" onclick=\"javascript:window.open(&#39;https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/flashback-joe-biden-constant-unrelenting-immigration&#39;, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;noopener&#39;); return false;\">Joe Biden<\/a>&#0160;makes exactly the same point, well, that is A-OK! Because they are \u201cgood guys\u201d who welcome \u201can unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop\u201d (Joe Biden\u2019s words). By the way, I leave to readers to intuit the difference between \u201cunrelenting\u201d (Joe\u2019s word) and \u201cceaseless\u201d (my word) and the reasons why the former is A-OK but the latter is somehow \u201cracist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here: More tellingly, this charge is an example of something I call the \u201ccelebration parallax,\u201d which is explained&#0160;here. In brief, the celebration parallax holds that the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it and, crucially, the perceived intent of the speaker. So if someone says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/michael-anton-on-celebration-parallax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Anton on &#8220;Celebration Parallax&#8221;&#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":[26,117,43,29,217,30,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-political-dissimulation","category-political-language","category-political-ponerology","category-political-projection","category-political-psychology","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}