{"id":8676,"date":"2013-07-01T11:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/01\/use-and-mention-kike-and-nigger\/"},"modified":"2013-07-01T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:49:44","slug":"use-and-mention-kike-and-nigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/01\/use-and-mention-kike-and-nigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Use and Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am listening to Dennis Prager.  According to Prager, Harry Truman once wrote on a postcard "I am now in kike town."  And then Prager went on to make the correct observation that quoting a person's use of a word is not to use that word oneself.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophers distinguish between use and mention.  It is one thing to use a word to refer to a thing or a person; it is another thing to mention the word. One can quote someone's use of the word 'kike' without calling anyone a kike.   Someone who grasps the distinction should  not be squeamish about writing out the word 'kike' as I have just done.  What's more, no one one I am aware of is<\/em> squeamish in that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

But people routinely speak of the N-word.  They won't write out 'nigger,' but  they will write out 'kike,' 'cracker,' ''wop,' 'guinea,' 'dago,' 'greaseball' . . . Why the double standard?<\/span><\/p>\n

'Kike' and 'nigger' differ in that the first is monosyllabic while the second is disyllabic.  I am talking about the words.  'Kike' and 'nigger' are not persons.  No person is monosyllabic or disyllabic.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Make the distinction and avoid the double standard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Would anything be left of the Left if leftists were forced to disembarrass<\/a> themselves of their manifold double standards?  (That is what we call a rhetorical question.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: Paula Deen: A Modern-Day Lynching<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Civil-Rights Generation Prisoner to its Fears<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I am listening to Dennis Prager.  According to Prager, Harry Truman once wrote on a postcard "I am now in kike town."  And then Prager went on to make the correct observation that quoting a person's use of a word is not to use that word oneself.  Philosophers distinguish between use and mention.  It is one … Continue reading “Use and Mention”<\/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":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","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=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}