{"id":8544,"date":"2013-08-20T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/20\/rage-and-lost-sleep-over-photo-id\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:41:58","slug":"rage-and-lost-sleep-over-photo-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/20\/rage-and-lost-sleep-over-photo-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage and Lost Sleep Over Photo ID"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Paul Wolff of The Philosopher's Stone<\/em> too often comes across as a stoned philosopher.  I gave one clear example last month in The Rage of the Wolff<\/a> wherein I quoted the good professor's hyperventilation over the Martin-Zimmerman case.  He spoke, delusionally, of "The judicially sanctioned murder of Trayvon Martin . . . ." But now<\/a> the Wolff is howling and raging and losing sleep (literally) over the North Carolina photo ID law:<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is happening in North Carolina right now . . . triggers such rage in me that I cannot talk about it with my customary ironic detachment.  I spent a good deal of last night tossing and turning, trying unsuccessfully to calm myself with fantasies of magical powers with which to visit great misery and pain on the Republican controlled State Legislature.<\/span><\/p>\n

All throughout North Carolina, local Boards of Election, packed with Republican appointees and emboldened, empowered, and encouraged by the State Legislature, are openly, nakedly, unabashedly moving to deny the basic right to vote to any group that shows signs of inclining Democratic.  It is perfectly clear what is happening.  Throughout the state are countless White southerners who have never accepted the freeing of the slaves, the extension of suffrage to Blacks, or the ending of such comforting traditions as segregated schools and public facilities.  The election of Obama and the steady move of the state in the direction of the modern Democratic Party has made them feel like aliens in their own home, and now they are unashamedly striking back, emboldened by the Supreme Court's appalling Voting Rights Act decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Does this outburst merit a response? No.  But it is a telling specimen of leftist pathology.  There is no wisdom and no common sense on the Left.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robert Paul Wolff of The Philosopher's Stone too often comes across as a stoned philosopher.  I gave one clear example last month in The Rage of the Wolff wherein I quoted the good professor's hyperventilation over the Martin-Zimmerman case.  He spoke, delusionally, of "The judicially sanctioned murder of Trayvon Martin . . . ." But now the Wolff … Continue reading “Rage and Lost Sleep Over Photo ID”<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","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=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}