{"id":6488,"date":"2016-04-24T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T11:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/from-the-transgressive-left-to-the-conservative-left\/"},"modified":"2016-04-24T11:56:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T11:56:46","slug":"from-the-transgressive-left-to-the-conservative-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/from-the-transgressive-left-to-the-conservative-left\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Transgressive Left to the ‘Conservative’ Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you have noticed that radicals are rather less interested in speaking truth to power after they get power than before. Their transgressive speech and behavior becomes curiously 'conservative.'  Giving umbrage gives way to taking umbrage.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Debra Saunders<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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What happened to shrugging at an opinion with which you disagree and leaving it at that? That notion is history, as communications executives seem to have convinced themselves that they are not censoring dissenting opinions but rather protecting the innocent from crude speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter took that phony stance, too, when it announced a "Trust and Safety Council" in February. "Twitter stands for freedom of expression, speaking truth to power, and empowering dialogue. That starts with safety," CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a good example of the sort of Orwellian mendacity we have come to expect from contemporary 'liberals.'   War is peace.   Slavery is freedom.  A defense of religious liberty is a violation of religious liberty.   Those who protest being forced by the government to violate their consciences and religious beliefs are imposing their religious beliefs. Curtailment of speech is free speech.  'Inclusion' is the exclusion of dissent.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The Orwellian template: X, which is not Y, is<\/em> Y. <\/span><\/p>\n

The open forum is a 'safe space' in which no one's feelings are hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Freedom of speech is freedom from 'micro-aggressions.'<\/span><\/p>\n

And notice that at bottom it's about money.  Twitter and ESPN toe the party line because it is profitable to do so.  A curious development: significant numbers of once anti-capitalist leftists are now driven by the profit motive to spread  Pee Cee drivel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps you have noticed that radicals are rather less interested in speaking truth to power after they get power than before. Their transgressive speech and behavior becomes curiously 'conservative.'  Giving umbrage gives way to taking umbrage.   Debra Saunders: What happened to shrugging at an opinion with which you disagree and leaving it at that? … Continue reading “From the Transgressive Left to the ‘Conservative’ Left”<\/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":[180,6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","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=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}