{"id":6493,"date":"2016-04-22T05:27:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T05:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/22\/a-leftist-assault-on-grammar-as-racist\/"},"modified":"2016-04-22T05:27:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T05:27:19","slug":"a-leftist-assault-on-grammar-as-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/22\/a-leftist-assault-on-grammar-as-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Leftist Assault on Grammar as Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The destructiveness of the Left extends even unto our alma mater<\/em>, the English language.  London Karl, who sent me the YouTube link<\/a>, comments:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Guardian<\/em> writer declares that those who like to use correct grammar are likely to be 'whiter' 'older' and 'wealthier' than those they correct. The irony of her being an editor on a major newspaper escapes her!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tom owns fewer<\/em> guns than Tim, not less<\/em> guns.  This is not just a matter of acceptable usage; it reflects a logico-semantic distinction between count nouns and mass terms.   The typical leftist, however, is a leveller who cannot tolerate clarity of speech and thought.  This is why we define the leftist or  contemporary liberal as a person who never met a standard he didn't want to erode.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The destructiveness of the Left extends even unto our alma mater, the English language.  London Karl, who sent me the YouTube link, comments: Guardian writer declares that those who like to use correct grammar are likely to be 'whiter' 'older' and 'wealthier' than those they correct. The irony of her being an editor on a … Continue reading “A Leftist Assault on Grammar as Racist”<\/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":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","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=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}