{"id":7792,"date":"2014-08-06T04:52:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/06\/is-gardeners-question-time-racist\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T04:52:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T04:52:50","slug":"is-gardeners-question-time-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/06\/is-gardeners-question-time-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Gardeners’ Question Time Racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

"An academic claims the Radio 4 programme\u2019s regular discussions on soil purity and non-native species promote racial stereotypes."  More proof<\/a> of the willful stupidity of liberals and the alacrity with which they play the race card.  (HT: London Karl)<\/span><\/p>\n

Gardening puts me in mind of spades, as in Wittgenstein's remark, "My spade is turned."  Did old Ludwig have a black servant who executed a turn?  A linguistic turn perhaps, or perhaps a transcendental one?  <\/span><\/p>\n

My erudite readers will of course know that to which I allude, namely, paragraph 217 of  Philosophical Investigations<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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217. \u201cHow am I able to obey a rule?\u201d \u2013 if this is not a question about causes, then it is about the justification for my following the rule in the way I do.<\/span><\/p>\n

If I have exhausted the justifications I have reached bedrock, and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: \u201cThis is simply what I do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am coming reluctantly to the view that the onus probandi<\/em> rests on liberals.  If you self-identify as a liberal, then the burden is on you to show that you are not willfully stupid and morally obtuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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"An academic claims the Radio 4 programme\u2019s regular discussions on soil purity and non-native species promote racial stereotypes."  More proof of the willful stupidity of liberals and the alacrity with which they play the race card.  (HT: London Karl) Gardening puts me in mind of spades, as in Wittgenstein's remark, "My spade is turned."  Did … Continue reading “Is Gardeners’ Question Time Racist?”<\/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":[163,15,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race","category-wittgenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","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=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}