{"id":6829,"date":"2015-11-23T04:26:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/23\/political-correctness-can-get-you-killed\/"},"modified":"2015-11-23T04:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:26:27","slug":"political-correctness-can-get-you-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/23\/political-correctness-can-get-you-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Correctness Can Get You Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/diaryofamadvoter\/2015\/11\/22\/as-terrorism-dominates-can-trump-be-stopped\" target=\"_self\">Roger L. Simon<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">The truth is PC doesn&#39;t hack it in war. &#0160;PC is a rich liberal&#39;s plaything, a luxury item.&#0160;It works best as&#0160;a subject for ridicule on <em>South Park<\/em>. &#0160;And it&#39;s not the way we really think. &#0160;It&#39;s the way we <em>pretend<\/em> we think. &#0160; So&#0160; just who is it that is blowing innocent people to smithereens in Paris, Beirut, Sharm, and Mali, and who knows where else next? &#0160;Zen Buddhist monks? &#0160;The Little Sisters of the Poor?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Everybody knows who it is. Islam has a big problem and although people want to be polite or deliberately lie&#0160;about it to look &quot;good&quot; to their neighbors&#0160;or to their cousins at the Thanksgiving table,&#0160;when they get into a voting booth, many of them are guiltily going&#0160;to be pulling the lever for someone with the you-know-what to&#0160;put an end to this global homicidal&#0160;insanity&#0160;&#8211; and it&#39;s not going to be John Kasich or Rand Paul or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. &#0160;It&#39;s going to be Donald Trump. &#0160;And if not Donald, possibly Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz, both of whom seem to be able to find Raqqa on a map. And none of these people are racists, not even faintly, no matter what some NBC reporter wants to imply.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger L. Simon: The truth is PC doesn&#39;t hack it in war. &#0160;PC is a rich liberal&#39;s plaything, a luxury item.&#0160;It works best as&#0160;a subject for ridicule on South Park. &#0160;And it&#39;s not the way we really think. &#0160;It&#39;s the way we pretend we think. &#0160; So&#0160; just who is it that is blowing innocent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/23\/political-correctness-can-get-you-killed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Correctness Can Get You Killed&#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":[119,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","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=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}