{"id":6729,"date":"2016-01-12T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/12\/reflections-on-wise-and-suicidal-immigration\/"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:59:12","slug":"reflections-on-wise-and-suicidal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/12\/reflections-on-wise-and-suicidal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Wise and Suicidal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">An <a href=\"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=8945#more-8945\">outstanding essay<\/a> by Victor Davis Hanson, except that he fails to address the question of Muslim immigration and the question of a moratorium on it.&#0160; A failure of nerve?&#0160; A desire to remain comfortably respectable in his ivory tower?&#0160; You will recall the &#39;conservative&#39; Lindsay Graham&#39;s denunciation of Donald Trump as a &#39;xenophobe&#39; when he made his moratorium proposal.&#0160; That&#39;s exactly how liberals talk! The implication is that one has an irrational fear of foreigners because one has an entirely reasonable desire to keep jihadis out of the country.&#0160; <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">How insidious is political correctness!&#0160; It infects even conservatives.&#0160; <\/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:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/06\/gasthaus-blut-und-boden.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/348990635_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/06\/gasthaus-blut-und-boden.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Gasthaus Blut und Boden<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outstanding essay by Victor Davis Hanson, except that he fails to address the question of Muslim immigration and the question of a moratorium on it.&#0160; A failure of nerve?&#0160; A desire to remain comfortably respectable in his ivory tower?&#0160; You will recall the &#39;conservative&#39; Lindsay Graham&#39;s denunciation of Donald Trump as a &#39;xenophobe&#39; when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/12\/reflections-on-wise-and-suicidal-immigration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reflections on Wise and Suicidal Immigration&#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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729","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=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}