{"id":808,"date":"2024-04-19T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/quotations-from-chairman-maher\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:13:09","slug":"quotations-from-chairman-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/quotations-from-chairman-maher\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotations from Chairman Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Christopher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/quotations-from-chairman-maher?skip=1\">Rufo<\/a> has her number.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The new CEO of NPR, then, is a left-wing ideologue who supports wide-scale censorship and considers the First Amendment an impediment to her campaign to sanitize the world of wrong opinions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Maher is no aberration. She is part of a rising cohort of affluent, left-wing, female managers who dominate the departments of university administration, human resources, and DEI. They are the matriarchs of the&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2023\/02\/what-is-the-longhouse\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Longhouse<\/a>: they&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/the-cluster-b-society\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">value<\/a>&#0160;safety over liberty, censorship over debate, and&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ted.com\/better-smarter-wiser-notes-from-session-7-of-tedmonterey\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">relativism over truth<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/wikipedia-co-founder-shocked-by-npr-chief-katherine-maher\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">, Rufo interviews Larry Sanger about NPR CEO Maher. Excerpt:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Sanger:<\/strong>&#0160;The fact that she is not immediately hounded out of her job\u2014and she won\u2019t be, I\u2019m sure\u2014shows you how profoundly and how quickly the culture of not just the&#0160;Internet, but&#0160;of&#0160;the United States and the West in general, has changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The fact that you had to do some research and surface these videos, that they weren\u2019t immediately caught as smoking-gun evidence of how bad things have gotten, shows you that the attitudes that she expresses are what we expect these days.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Poor Maher! She suffers from both TDS and Truth Decay.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Rufo has her number. The new CEO of NPR, then, is a left-wing ideologue who supports wide-scale censorship and considers the First Amendment an impediment to her campaign to sanitize the world of wrong opinions. Maher is no aberration. She is part of a rising cohort of affluent, left-wing, female managers who dominate the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/quotations-from-chairman-maher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quotations from Chairman Maher&#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":[180,231,163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-free-speech","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}