{"id":6912,"date":"2015-10-20T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/20\/r-p-wolff-ben-carson-and-the-lefts-hatred-of-conservative-blacks\/"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:45:22","slug":"r-p-wolff-ben-carson-and-the-lefts-hatred-of-conservative-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/20\/r-p-wolff-ben-carson-and-the-lefts-hatred-of-conservative-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"R. P. Wolff, Ben Carson, and The Left&#8217;s Hatred of Conservative Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Robert Paul Wolff over at <em>The Philosopher&#39;s Stone<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/snarking.html\" target=\"_self\">opines<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><strong>Ben Carson may just be the most thoroughly despicable person to make a run for the presidency in modern times<\/strong>.&#0160; So I take particular pleasure in the third quarter financial report that revealed that the good doctor spent 57% of the money he raised &#8212; raising money.&#0160; I think while <strong>he&#0160;has devoted himself to uttering ugly, contemptible things<\/strong> in his soft, soothing voice someone has been taking him for a ride.&#0160; I hope his deeply religious supporters appreciate the fact that their dollars are being spent searching for dollars [and running up impressive tabs at expensive eateries &#8212; but that is another story.]&#0160; Actually, since his biggest fans are faithful attendees at&#0160;Christian services, they are probably used to this. (Emphasis added.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Professor Wolff is not just some two-bit blogger, but an accomplished philosopher who has written some good books. &#0160;But then he posts scurrilous, slanderous stuff like the above. &#0160;(And this is just one example.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">What explains the Left&#39;s hatred of conservative blacks, a hatred so intense that it unhinges otherwise rational people like Wolff? &#0160;Comments are enabled. &#0160;I&#39;m interested in your theories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">How is it that if a conservative argues against &#0160;the <em>ideas or policies<\/em> of a black leftist such as Obama he is immediately labelled a racist, while if a leftist like Wolff v<em>iciously and personally<\/em> attacks a black conservative while ignoring the content of his remarks, he escapes the charge of racism? &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.services\/blog\/6a010535ce1cf6970c010535c82845970b\/search?filter.q=robert+paul+wolff\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> for other Wolff entries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Related: &#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/09\/could-i-support-a-muslim-for-president.html\" target=\"_self\">Could I Support a Muslim for President?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Paul Wolff over at The Philosopher&#39;s Stone opines: Ben Carson may just be the most thoroughly despicable person to make a run for the presidency in modern times.&#0160; So I take particular pleasure in the third quarter financial report that revealed that the good doctor spent 57% of the money he raised &#8212; raising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/20\/r-p-wolff-ben-carson-and-the-lefts-hatred-of-conservative-blacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;R. P. Wolff, Ben Carson, and The Left&#8217;s Hatred of Conservative Blacks&#8221;<\/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":[163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912","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=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}