{"id":6822,"date":"2015-11-27T04:43:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T04:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/27\/recognizing-microagressions-and-the-messages-they-send\/"},"modified":"2015-11-27T04:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T04:43:08","slug":"recognizing-microagressions-and-the-messages-they-send","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/27\/recognizing-microagressions-and-the-messages-they-send\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing Microagressions and the Messages They Send"},"content":{"rendered":"

A remarkable document<\/a>.  Tell me what you think.<\/span><\/p>\n

To understand the Left you must understand that central to their worldview is the hermeneutics of suspicion<\/em> which is essentially a diluted amalgam of themes from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus nothing has the plain meaning that it has; every meaning must be deconstructed so as to lay bare its 'real meaning.'<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose I say, sincerely, "The most qualified person should get the job."  To a leftist that means:  "People of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race."<\/span><\/p>\n

Or suppose I describe a black malefactor as a thug.  What I have actually said, according to the hermeneutics of suspicion, is that the malefactor is a nigger.  But 'thug' does not mean 'nigger.'  'Thug' means thug<\/em>.  There are thugs of all races.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leftists often call for 'conversations' about this or that. Thus Eric Holder famously called for a 'conversation' about race.  But how can one have a conversation — no sneer quotes — about anything with people who refuse to take what one sincerely says at face value?<\/span><\/p>\n

I now hand off to Dennis Prager, American Universities Begin to Implode<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A remarkable document.  Tell me what you think. To understand the Left you must understand that central to their worldview is the hermeneutics of suspicion which is essentially a diluted amalgam of themes from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. Thus nothing has the plain meaning that it has; every meaning must be deconstructed so as to … Continue reading “Recognizing Microagressions and the Messages They Send”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,180,6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-decline-of-the-west","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","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=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}