{"id":6680,"date":"2016-02-05T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/05\/on-homophobic\/"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:49:35","slug":"on-homophobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/05\/on-homophobic\/","title":{"rendered":"On ‘Homophobic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

'Homophobic' is a coinage of leftists to prevent one of those famous 'conversations' that they otherwise call for.  It is a question-begging epithet and semantic bludgeon meant to close down debate by the branding of their opponents as suffering from a mental defect.  This is why only a foolish conservative acquiesces in the use of this made-up word.  Language matters.  One of the first rules for successful prosecution of the  Kulturkampf<\/em>  is to never  let the enemy distort the terms of the debate.  Insist on standard English, and always slap them down when they engage in their notorious 'framing.' He who controls the terms of the debate controls the debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for 'gay,' that too is a word we ought not surrender.  Use the neutral 'homosexual.'   Same with 'queer.'   'Queer' is a good old word.  Nominalists think abstracta are queer entities.  There is no implication that the anal<\/em>ysis of such is in any way proctological.<\/span><\/p>\n

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'Homophobic' is a coinage of leftists to prevent one of those famous 'conversations' that they otherwise call for.  It is a question-begging epithet and semantic bludgeon meant to close down debate by the branding of their opponents as suffering from a mental defect.  This is why only a foolish conservative acquiesces in the use of … Continue reading “On ‘Homophobic’”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","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=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}