{"id":6497,"date":"2016-04-20T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/20\/mugged-by-a-philosopher\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:03:09","slug":"mugged-by-a-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/20\/mugged-by-a-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugged by a Philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp\/2016\/04\/mugged-by-a-philosopher\/\">The Thinking Housewife<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong>THE&#0160;<\/strong>greatest academic gig is that of the black philosopher. Spout hackneyed and malicious political slogans and you will be treated as a paragon of wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">George Yancy is a professor of philosophy at Emory University. In addition to being a rising star in the field of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/rockpride.sru.edu\/2015\/RP030615\/story.php?id=3\">body politics<\/a>, \u201d he<a href=\"http:\/\/philosophy.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/yancy-george.html\">&#0160;specializes<\/a> in Critical Whiteness Studies. That means: \u201cwhite subject formation, white racist ambush, white opacity and embeddedness, white&#0160;complicity, white anti-racist praxis.\u201d In other words, he specializes in anti-philosophical racial grievance and intellectual junk.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Read it all.&#0160; While I disagree with the Housewife on some things, I don&#39;t disagree&#0160; on her assessment of Yancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amren.com\/news\/2016\/03\/students-at-emory-protest-trump-chalk-markings\/\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/366966391_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amren.com\/news\/2016\/03\/students-at-emory-protest-trump-chalk-markings\/\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Students at Emory Protest &#39;Trump&#39; Chalk Markings<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thinking Housewife: THE&#0160;greatest academic gig is that of the black philosopher. Spout hackneyed and malicious political slogans and you will be treated as a paragon of wisdom. George Yancy is a professor of philosophy at Emory University. In addition to being a rising star in the field of \u201cbody politics, \u201d he&#0160;specializes in Critical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/20\/mugged-by-a-philosopher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mugged by a Philosopher&#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":[52,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","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=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}