{"id":9279,"date":"2012-10-21T13:31:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T13:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/21\/derbyshires-defenestration-six-months-later\/"},"modified":"2012-10-21T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T13:31:20","slug":"derbyshires-defenestration-six-months-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/21\/derbyshires-defenestration-six-months-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Derbyshire&#8217;s Defenestration: Six Months Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Derb calls it a six month anniversary, but how can there be a six month <em>anni<\/em>versary?&#0160; (L. <em>annus, anni<\/em>, year.) Call me a pedant and a quibbler.&#0160; So while I&#39;m just being myself, I&#39;ll also point out that he uses the pleonastic &#39;true fact.&#39;&#0160; What, as opposed to a <em>false fact<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Much more importantly, the man spoke the truth about race and has paid a&#0160; price for so doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I seem to recall a rant of mine against the simultaneous crudification and wussification of American culture.&#0160; Ugly words for ugly things.&#0160; Derb in his <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/anniversary_of_a_defenestration_john_derbyshire\/page_2#axzz29xlrypkg\" target=\"_self\">Anniversary of a Defenestration<\/a> laments &quot;the pathetic <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/white_people_are_pussies_john_derbyshire#axzz25lo3bk9e\">pussification<\/a> of the official right.&quot;&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/anniversary_of_a_defenestration_part_ii_john_derbyshire#axzz29xlrypkg\" target=\"_self\"> Here <\/a>is Part II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">My posts on Derbyshire:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/04\/derbyshires-defenestration.html\" target=\"_self\">Derbyshire&#39;s Defenestration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/04\/derbyshires-racism.html\" target=\"_self\">Derbyshire&#39;s &#39;Racism&#39;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/04\/pc-conservative-andrew-mccarthys-response-to-john-derbyshire.html\" target=\"_self\">PC Conservative Andrew McCarthy&#39;s Lame Response&#0160;to John Derbyshire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/05\/first-john-derbyshire-then-naomi-riley.html\" target=\"_self\">First John Derbyshire, then Naomi Riley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is much more on the delightful topic of race in my aptly&#0160;entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/race\/\" target=\"_self\">Race<\/a> category.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derb calls it a six month anniversary, but how can there be a six month anniversary?&#0160; (L. annus, anni, year.) Call me a pedant and a quibbler.&#0160; So while I&#39;m just being myself, I&#39;ll also point out that he uses the pleonastic &#39;true fact.&#39;&#0160; What, as opposed to a false fact? Much more importantly, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/21\/derbyshires-defenestration-six-months-later\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Derbyshire&#8217;s Defenestration: Six Months Later&#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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279","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=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}