{"id":6375,"date":"2016-06-10T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/10\/trump-and-the-conservative-cause\/"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:12:26","slug":"trump-and-the-conservative-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/10\/trump-and-the-conservative-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Conservative Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very rich and perceptive essay<\/a> by Charles Kesler.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following passage illustrates what Keith Burgess-Jackson calls 'academentia':  <\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no coincidence that the two loudest, most consequential socio-political forces in America right now are Political Correctness and Donald Trump. One is at home on college campuses, the other in the world of working people. Yet they are already beginning to collide. At Emory University recently, someone scrawled \u201cTrump 2016\u201d in chalk on steps and sidewalks around the campus. About 50 students swiftly assembled to protest the outrage, shouting, \u201cYou are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!\u201d Aghast at \u201cthe chalkings,\u201d the university president complied.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Scripps College, just a few weeks ago, a Mexican-American student awoke to find \u201c#trump2016\u201d written on the whiteboard on her door. The student body president, in a mass email, quickly condemned the \u201cracist incident\u201d and denounced Trump\u2019s hashtag as a symbol of violence and a \u201ctestament that racism continues to be an undeniable problem and alarming threat on our campuses.\u201d The student body\u2019s response, apparently, was underwhelming. Shortly the dean of students weighed in with an email of her own, upbraiding students who thought the student body president\u2019s email had been, oh, an overreaction. The dean noted that although Scripps of course respects its students\u2019 First Amendment rights, in this case the \u201ccircumstances here are unique.\u201d Note to dean: the circumstances are always unique.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I say: death to political correctness.  We need more free speech, and more denunciations of liberal-left evil-doers, not only the termites undermining our institutions, but also the thugs on the streets.  Not to mention more of that which backs up free speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A very rich and perceptive essay by Charles Kesler. The following passage illustrates what Keith Burgess-Jackson calls 'academentia':   It\u2019s no coincidence that the two loudest, most consequential socio-political forces in America right now are Political Correctness and Donald Trump. One is at home on college campuses, the other in the world of working people. … Continue reading “Trump and the Conservative Cause”<\/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":[64,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375","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=6375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}