{"id":9687,"date":"2012-05-24T05:34:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T05:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/24\/left-wing-racial-mccarthyism\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T05:34:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T05:34:24","slug":"left-wing-racial-mccarthyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/24\/left-wing-racial-mccarthyism\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Racial McCarthyism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Contemporary liberals hunt for racists the way McCarthyites in the &#39;50s and early &#39;60s hunted for commies, and they use their terms of opprobrium with the same sort of&#0160; irresponsible semantic latitude.&#0160;You could say that they are extreme semantic latitudinarians when it comes to their verbal bludgeons of choice. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;But a witch hunt by&#0160;any other&#0160;name is still a witch hunt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary liberals hunt for racists the way McCarthyites in the &#39;50s and early &#39;60s hunted for commies, and they use their terms of opprobrium with the same sort of&#0160; irresponsible semantic latitude.&#0160;You could say that they are extreme semantic latitudinarians when it comes to their verbal bludgeons of choice. &#0160;But a witch hunt by&#0160;any other&#0160;name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/24\/left-wing-racial-mccarthyism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Left-Wing Racial McCarthyism&#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":[69,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","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=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}