{"id":8151,"date":"2014-02-05T13:51:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/05\/more-proof-of-liberal-scumbaggery\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T13:51:03","slug":"more-proof-of-liberal-scumbaggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/05\/more-proof-of-liberal-scumbaggery\/","title":{"rendered":"More Proof of Liberal Scumbaggery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I say you are moral scum if you willfully slander your opponents having made&#0160; no attempt to understand their point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/feb\/01\/george-lakoff-interview\" target=\"_self\">a Guardian piece<\/a> on George Lakoff:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">To liberals, a&#0160;lot of conservative thinking seems like a failure of&#0160;logic: why would a conservative be against equal rights for&#0160;women and yet despise the poor, when to liberate women into the world of work would create more wealth, meaning less poverty? And yet we&#0160;instinctively understand those as features of the conservative worldview, and&#0160;rightly so.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This is beneath response. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/lakoff-on-how-conservatives-use.html\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> are some critical comments of mine from September 2004 on Lakoff&#39;s ideas.<\/span> <\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/12\/is-obamacare-a-derogatory-word.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/228762564_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/12\/is-obamacare-a-derogatory-word.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Is &#39;Obamacare&#39; a Derogatory Word?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say you are moral scum if you willfully slander your opponents having made&#0160; no attempt to understand their point of view. This is from a Guardian piece on George Lakoff: To liberals, a&#0160;lot of conservative thinking seems like a failure of&#0160;logic: why would a conservative be against equal rights for&#0160;women and yet despise the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/05\/more-proof-of-liberal-scumbaggery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Proof of Liberal Scumbaggery&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151","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=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}