{"id":841,"date":"2024-04-04T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/false-abstraction\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:19:28","slug":"false-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/false-abstraction\/","title":{"rendered":"False Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Surely one of the idiocies of the age is the oft-repeated, &quot;Diversity is our strength.&quot; Anyone who repeats this bit of thoughtless group-speak wears his folly like a scarlet letter.&#0160; I&#39;ll leave it to the reader to work out why the falsehood is false and how it&#0160; illustrates the fallacy of false abstraction. Why do I have to do all the work?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">But a soup\u00e7on of&#0160; sanity is beginning to glimmer in the heads of&#0160; some of the original progenitors of&#0160; DEI nonsense.&#0160; See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/column\/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard\/article\/2024\/4\/2\/kennedy-abandon-dei-statements\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely one of the idiocies of the age is the oft-repeated, &quot;Diversity is our strength.&quot; Anyone who repeats this bit of thoughtless group-speak wears his folly like a scarlet letter.&#0160; I&#39;ll leave it to the reader to work out why the falsehood is false and how it&#0160; illustrates the fallacy of false abstraction. Why do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/false-abstraction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;False Abstraction&#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":[5,6,43,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallacies-informal","category-language-matters","category-political-language","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}