{"id":6780,"date":"2015-12-16T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/16\/two-leftist-constraints-on-conversation\/"},"modified":"2015-12-16T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:26:51","slug":"two-leftist-constraints-on-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/16\/two-leftist-constraints-on-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Leftist Constraints on ‘Conversation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only politically correct topics may be discussed.  So Eric Holder called for a 'conversation' on race as if we had never talked about this before.  But I don't recall him calling for a 'conversation' on immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other constraint is that 'conversation' must consist in an acquiescence by the conservative in the leftist's nonsense.  No dialog allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n

So whatever you say about Donald Trump, we ought to give him this much:  he began a real conversation (no sneer quotes) about immigration.  And the RINOs are going to be dragged into it.<\/span><\/p>\n

You don't like Trump's crudity, bombast, and exaggeration?  Me neither.  He is undoubtedly lacking in the gravitas<\/em> department. But on immigration he is basically on the Right track.  For proposals more temperate and nuanced we may turn to thinkers such as Daniel Pipes.  See here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the conversation<\/em> (no sneer quotes) begin.  Let's see how serious you leftists are about real<\/em> conversation.
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Only politically correct topics may be discussed.  So Eric Holder called for a 'conversation' on race as if we had never talked about this before.  But I don't recall him calling for a 'conversation' on immigration. The other constraint is that 'conversation' must consist in an acquiescence by the conservative in the leftist's nonsense.  No … Continue reading “Two Leftist Constraints on ‘Conversation’”<\/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":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","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=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}