{"id":9720,"date":"2012-05-08T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/blacklisted-blacklisted\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T16:16:03","slug":"blacklisted-blacklisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/blacklisted-blacklisted\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Blacklisted&#8217; Blacklisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/4301441\/Police-chiefs-ban-the-word-blacklist-over-fears-that-it-is-racist.html\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>: &quot;POLICE chiefs have banned IT staff from using the word blacklist over fears it is RACIST.&quot; (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnation.com\/vfr\/archives\/022344.html\" target=\"_self\">VFR<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This&#0160;sort of thing is&#0160;insane, of course. And so I suspect that to argue against it is foolish: it only lends credibility to a view that ought to be mocked and derided.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But I do argue it out <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/07\/of-black-holes-and-political-correctness-if-you-take-offense-is-that-my-fault.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.&#0160; One late-night comic&#0160;lampooned the &#39;crispy critter&#39; tanning lady (who brought her child into the tanning booth with her) by saying that the she is so dark it&#39;s racist!&#0160; That&#39;s the way to go.&#0160; You PeeCee liberals are so stupid it&#39;s racist! What is the antecedent of the last two occurrences of &#39;it&#39;?&#0160; Don&#39;t worry, we be in PeeCee land now.&#0160; We don&#39;t need to talk no sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Cosmologists are going to have to be careful what with their talk of black holes.&#0160; Someone might take that as &#39;code&#39; for &#39;black ho&#39; a phrase that in PeeCee logic (and no, I&#39;m not talking about the propositional calculus) implies that all black females are whores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0168eb54c0f1970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tanning%20Lady\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0168eb54c0f1970c\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0168eb54c0f1970c-500wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Tanning%20Lady\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here: &quot;POLICE chiefs have banned IT staff from using the word blacklist over fears it is RACIST.&quot; (Via VFR) This&#0160;sort of thing is&#0160;insane, of course. And so I suspect that to argue against it is foolish: it only lends credibility to a view that ought to be mocked and derided.&#0160; But I do argue it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/blacklisted-blacklisted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Blacklisted&#8217; Blacklisted&#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":[242,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720","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=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}