{"id":8414,"date":"2013-10-23T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/23\/why-do-conservatives-oppose-obamacare\/"},"modified":"2013-10-23T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:31:08","slug":"why-do-conservatives-oppose-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/23\/why-do-conservatives-oppose-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Conservatives Oppose ObamaCare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Paul Wolff has an answer<\/a> for us.  Ready?  The bolding is Wolff's own and is twice-repeated:<\/span><\/p>\n

Because Obama is Black.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

Is Professor Wolff serious? I'm afraid he is.  But given that the man is neither stupid nor the usual sort of left-wing moral scumbag, how could<\/em> he be serious?  What explains a view so plainly delusional?  How account for an emotion-driven mere dismissal of the conservative position<\/a> the arguments for which he will not examine? How is it that a professional philosopher, indeed a very good one, can engage in such puerile ad hominem<\/em> psychologizing?  Wolff himself provides an answer in a later post<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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My knowledge of the beliefs and sentiments of those on the right is based entirely on things I have read or have seen on television.  I have never had a conversation with a committed right-wing opponent of the Affordable Care Act, nor have I even, to the best of my knowledge, met one.  You would be quite correct in inferring that I live in a left-wing bubble [called Chapel Hill — before that, I lived in a left-wing bubble called Amherst, MA, and before that I lived in the right wing bubbles called Morningside Heights, Hyde Park, and Cambridge.]   If this strikes you as disqualifying my from having an opinion, you are free to ignore the rest of this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Need I say more?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robert Paul Wolff has an answer for us.  Ready?  The bolding is Wolff's own and is twice-repeated: Because Obama is Black. Is Professor Wolff serious? I'm afraid he is.  But given that the man is neither stupid nor the usual sort of left-wing moral scumbag, how could he be serious?  What explains a view so … Continue reading “Why Do Conservatives Oppose ObamaCare?”<\/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":[64,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414","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=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}