{"id":20333,"date":"2023-09-01T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20333"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:56:28","slug":"firing-line-friday-resolved-that-political-correctness-is-a-menace-and-a-bore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/09\/01\/firing-line-friday-resolved-that-political-correctness-is-a-menace-and-a-bore\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That Political Correctness Is a Menace and a Bore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Political Correctness has been plaguing us for decades now. Let us look back at the state of political correctness back in 1993 when Willian F. Buckley, Jr., Leon Botstein, Robert H. Bork, Linda Greene, Cornel West, Ira Glasser, Mark J. Green, Catharine R. Stimpson, debated the resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/7186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that political correctness is a menace and bore<\/a>, with Michel E. Kinsley moderating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CkJ2NvuQ0ko?si=dEk-Fjozvpi3vWYX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That Political Correctness Is a Menace and a Bore\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Political Correctness has been plaguing us for decades now.  Let us look back at the state of political correctness back in 1993 when Willian F. Buckley, Jr., Leon Botstein, Robert H. Bork, Linda Greene, Cornel West, Ira Glasser, Mark J. Green, Catharine R. Stimpson, debated the resolution that political correctness is a menace and bore, with Michel E. Kinsley moderating.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Political Correctness has been plaguing us for decades now. Let us look back at the state of political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/09\/01\/firing-line-friday-resolved-that-political-correctness-is-a-menace-and-a-bore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[95,48],"class_list":["post-20333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-firing-line-friday","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20335,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions\/20335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}