{"id":9316,"date":"2012-10-05T05:28:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T05:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/05\/buckleys-axiom-the-intolerance-of-liberals\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T05:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T05:28:05","slug":"buckleys-axiom-the-intolerance-of-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/05\/buckleys-axiom-the-intolerance-of-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckley&#8217;s Axiom: The Intolerance of Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-f-will-romneys-trifecta\/2012\/10\/04\/8e4fc77a-0e4d-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html\" target=\"_self\">George Will<\/a>&#0160;(emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Barack Obama, knight of the peevish countenance, illustrated William F. Buckley\u2019s axiom that<strong> liberals who celebrate tolerance of other views always seem amazed that there are other views.<\/strong> Obama, who is not known as a martyr to the work ethic and who might use a teleprompter when ordering lunch, seemed uncomfortable with a format that allowed fluidity of discourse. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Similarly with liberal inclusiveness: it does not include conservatives or anyone who questions the wisdom of total inclusiveness or the wisdom of unlimited toleration.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ditto for liberal anti-bigotry: it does not prevent them from playing the bigot vis-\u00e0-vis conservatives.&#0160;<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by George Will&#0160;(emphasis added): Barack Obama, knight of the peevish countenance, illustrated William F. Buckley\u2019s axiom that liberals who celebrate tolerance of other views always seem amazed that there are other views. Obama, who is not known as a martyr to the work ethic and who might use a teleprompter when ordering lunch, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/05\/buckleys-axiom-the-intolerance-of-liberals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Buckley&#8217;s Axiom: The Intolerance of Liberals&#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":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316","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=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}