{"id":6846,"date":"2015-11-16T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/i-wish-i-could-stick-to-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2015-11-16T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T14:08:36","slug":"i-wish-i-could-stick-to-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/i-wish-i-could-stick-to-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wish I Could Stick to Philosophy . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . and avoid politics.  But philosophy needs a 'safe space' within which to flourish.  And that space needs to be defended against the two-fold totalitarian threat.  There is the threat from radical Islam and the threat from the leftist enablers of and apologists for radical Islam.  (If you insist that radical Islam = Islam, I may come to agree with you; in which case 'radical' in 'radical Islam' is a redundant qualifier.  But pleonasm is but a peccadillo, if  that.)<\/span><\/p>\n

So if you are a decent human being with an ounce of gratitude for the fruits of Western civilization, then you should do your bit.  At a minimum, show a little civil courage<\/a> and speak out against the Muslim barbarians and the liberal-left scum who enable them while attacking our great institutions such as the universities. <\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . and avoid politics.  But philosophy needs a 'safe space' within which to flourish.  And that space needs to be defended against the two-fold totalitarian threat.  There is the threat from radical Islam and the threat from the leftist enablers of and apologists for radical Islam.  (If you insist that radical Islam = … Continue reading “I Wish I Could Stick to Philosophy . . .”<\/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":[306,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}