{"id":35030,"date":"2016-06-11T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35030"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:06:42","slug":"like-the-inappropriate-application-of-an-antibiotic-the-incessant-misuse-of-these-terms-has-created-a-superbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/11\/like-the-inappropriate-application-of-an-antibiotic-the-incessant-misuse-of-these-terms-has-created-a-superbug\/","title":{"rendered":"“Like the inappropriate application of an antibiotic, the incessant misuse of these terms has created a superbug”"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESR linked to this post<\/a>, saying “Trump is riding a wave of loathing of the sort of people who use accusations of racism and sexism as thought-stoppers. Overuse of that rhetorical weapon was bound to have a cost, and Trump’s seeming invulnerability is part of the cost.\ufeff”:<\/p>\n

Liberals and Leftists, if you don’t want Donald Trump to become the next president of the United States, stop calling him a racist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, stop calling him a sexist and a misogynist<\/em>, especially if you’re a woman (or anything remotely like a “beta-male”); do not even use words like ableist or transphobic<\/em>; and, lastly, most definitely do not call him Hitler or even make the comparison<\/em>. Those phrases, when directed against Trump or the angry conservative machine that is feeding his success as a candidate, are helping<\/em> \u2013 not hurting \u2013 his chances in November.<\/p>\n

People left, right, and center – but especially on the right – are justifiably sick and tired<\/em> of being called bigots and having almost everything in social politics reduced to smear campaigns about bigotry. This overbearing assault is the well-intended and ill-conceived product of a fashionable strain of progressivism that has taken it as a holy mission to stamp out bigotry in all its forms in every corner of our society.<\/p>\n

The over-application of terms of bigotry as a means of silencing disagreement with a left-bending social orthodoxy has become, shall we say, “problematic.” As a result, words like racist<\/em>, sexist<\/em>, misogynist<\/em>, homophobe<\/em>, and the rest, have become conservative dog-whistles that mean “honest and brave,” and “willing to speak his mind (without fear).” Like the inappropriate application of an antibiotic, the incessant misuse of these terms has created a superbug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESR linked to this post, saying “Trump is riding a wave of loathing of the sort of people who use accusations of racism and sexism as thought-stoppers. Overuse of that rhetorical weapon was bound to have a cost, and Trump’s seeming invulnerability is part of the cost.\ufeff”: Liberals and Leftists, if you don’t want Donald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[1037,188,351],"class_list":["post-35030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-donaldtrump","tag-electionwatch","tag-politicalcorrectness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-970","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35031,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35030\/revisions\/35031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}