{"id":7403,"date":"2015-02-02T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T07:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/02\/many-conservatives-are-residually-politically-correct\/"},"modified":"2015-02-02T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T07:24:49","slug":"many-conservatives-are-residually-politically-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/02\/many-conservatives-are-residually-politically-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"Residual Political Correctness Among Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at NRO, I found this in an otherwise very good column<\/a> by Charles C. W. Cooke:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I daresay that if I had been in any of the situations that DeBoer describes, I would have walked happily out of the class. Why? Well, because there is simply nothing to be gained from arguing with people who believe that it is reasonable to treat those who use the word \u201cdisabled\u201d as we treat those who use the word \u201cn***er\u201d . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Isn't this precious<\/a>?  Cooke shows that he owns a pair of cojones throughout the column but then he gets queasy when it comes to 'nigger.'  Why? Would he similarly tip-toe around 'kike' or 'dago'?  I doubt it. It is clear that he is aware of the difference between using a word to refer to something and talking about the word.  Philosophers call this the use-mention distinction.  Call it whatever you like, but observe it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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True:  'Boston' is disyllabic.<\/span>
False: Boston is disyllabic.<\/span>
True:  Boston is populous.<\/span>
False: 'Boston' is populous.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Consider the following sentence<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some blacks refer to other blacks using the word 'nigger.'<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The sentence is true.  Now of course I do not maintain that a sentence's being true justifies its assertive utterance in every situation. The above sentence, although appropriately asserted in the present context where a serious and important point is being made, would not be appropriately asserted in any number of other easily imagined contexts. 
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But suppose that you take offense at the above sentence.  Well, then, you have taken inappropriate and unjustified offense, and your foolishness offends me!  Why is my being objectively offended of less significance than your being merely subjectively offended?  Your willful stupidity justifies my mockery and derision.  One should not give offense without a good reason.  But your taking inappropriate offense is not my problem but yours.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this regard there is no substitute for sound common sense, a commodity which unfortunately is in short supply on the Left.  You can test whether you have sound common sense by whether or not you agree with the boring points I make in such entries as the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

Of 'Blind Review' and Pandora's Box<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Of Black Holes and Political Correctness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The White House Beer Summit     <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Over at NRO, I found this in an otherwise very good column by Charles C. W. Cooke: I daresay that if I had been in any of the situations that DeBoer describes, I would have walked happily out of the class. Why? Well, because there is simply nothing to be gained from arguing with people … Continue reading “Residual Political Correctness Among Conservatives”<\/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":[64,6,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403","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=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}