{"id":932,"date":"2024-02-19T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/is-leftism-a-form-of-mental-illness\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T05:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T05:26:16","slug":"is-leftism-a-form-of-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/is-leftism-a-form-of-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Leftism a Form of Mental Illness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Wokery is the most extreme form of leftism. Some if not all elements of wokery are indicative of mental illness on the part of those who actually believe them. I will mention just four.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Thinking that one can effect a sex-change by merely mental gymnastics, by &#39;identifying&#39; as a woman or as a man. Cognate with this species of insanity is the notion that sex of a neonate is &#39;assigned&#39; at birth as opposed to being biologically inherent in the organism that exits the birth canal. A name can be assigned but not sex. Not even an inappropriate nominal assignment has the power to alter the sex of the nominatum. The boy named &#39;Sue&#39; remained a boy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The bizarre notion that permitting or minimizing the consequences of criminal behavior will lead to less crime.&#0160;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The astonishing conceit that mathematics is racist. Why exactly?&#0160; Because blacks as a group are not good at it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The knuckleheaded notion that wholly legitimate criticisms of a &#39;person of color&#39; such as Alejandro Mayorkas may be deflected&#0160; &#0160;by hurling the slur &#39;racist,&#39; a word which wokesters never define the better to use as an all-purpose semantic bludgeon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Et cetera ad nauseam<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wokery is the most extreme form of leftism. Some if not all elements of wokery are indicative of mental illness on the part of those who actually believe them. I will mention just four. Thinking that one can effect a sex-change by merely mental gymnastics, by &#39;identifying&#39; as a woman or as a man. Cognate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/is-leftism-a-form-of-mental-illness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Leftism a Form of Mental Illness?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,30,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-language","category-political-psychology","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}