{"id":2137,"date":"2007-04-21T05:33:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T11:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/a-conservative-defends-political-correctness-well-sorta\/"},"modified":"2007-04-21T05:33:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T11:33:47","slug":"a-conservative-defends-political-correctness-well-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/a-conservative-defends-political-correctness-well-sorta\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conservative Defends Political Correctness &#8212; well, sorta &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=ZGM1YjgzNjg1MDkxMjlmM2M4NTZjNDEyYzgxOGI2NDk=\">P.C. Kabuki Theater<\/a>, By Jonah Goldberg<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">The reality is that much of political correctness \u2014 the successful part \u2014 is a necessary attempt to redefine good manners in a sexually and racially integrated society.<\/strong> Good manners are simply those things you do to demonstrate respect to others and contribute to social decorum. Aren&#8217;t conservatives the natural defenders of proper manners? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s remarkable overlap between conservative and liberal complaints about the culture. But when <em>traditionalists<\/em> talk the language of decency and morality, the Left hears bigotry and theocracy. And when liberals talk about sensitivity and white privilege, the Right hears something totalitarian. The result is that the two sides hold separate conversations. And when they do talk to each other, each side is listening for hidden agendas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.C. Kabuki Theater, By Jonah Goldberg The reality is that much of political correctness \u2014 the successful part \u2014 is a necessary attempt to redefine good manners in a sexually and racially integrated society. Good manners are simply those things you do to demonstrate respect to others and contribute to social decorum. Aren&#8217;t conservatives the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/a-conservative-defends-political-correctness-well-sorta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Conservative Defends Political Correctness &#8212; well, sorta &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}