{"id":24146,"date":"2019-02-19T18:15:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24146"},"modified":"2019-02-19T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:15:36","slug":"word-of-the-day-453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/02\/19\/word-of-the-day-453\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obloquy<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Strong public condemnation.<\/span>
    \n\u2018he endured years of contempt and obloquy\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n
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    1. Disgrace, especially that brought about by public condemnation.
      \n\u2018conduct to which no more obloquy could reasonably attach\u2019 [Oxford Dictionaries<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      New word to me. Noted in “New Hope and New Danger on the Left<\/em><\/a>,” Andrew Sullivan, New York<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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      If the Democrats want to fight the next election on the need for a radical rebalancing of the economy in favor of the middle and working class, for massive investment in new green technology, for higher taxes on the superrich, and for health-care security for all Americans, they can win. If they conflate those goals with extremist rhetoric about abolishing everyone\u2019s current health insurance, and starting from scratch, as the Green New Deal advises, not so much. If they insist that men and women are indistinguishable, that girls can have penises and boys can have periods, as transgender ideology now demands, they\u2019ll seem nuts to most fair-minded people.<\/p>\n

      If they echo the anti-Semitism of the far right, they\u2019ll deserve obloquy. If left ideology seems to be overruling practical good sense \u2014 like ruling out nuclear power as an option for tackling the climate crisis in the Green New Deal, they\u2019ll seem unserious purists. If they insist on calling our multicultural and multiracial democracy a manifestation of \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d they will empower real white supremacists. If they call a border wall an \u201cimmorality\u201d and refuse to fund a way to detain and humanely house the huge surge of migrant families and children now overwhelming the southern border (up\u00a0290 percent<\/a>\u00a0over the same period in 2018, with a record 1,800 apprehensions on Monday of this week alone!), they will rightly be called in favor of open borders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      Andrew talks a lot of sense, but he seems as short-sighted about the illegal immigrants at the southern border as do most Republicans. Shutting them out rather than investigating root causes merely kicks the can down the road.<\/p>\n

      And that can may be a helluva lot larger in a couple of decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Obloquy: Strong public condemnation. \u2018he endured years of contempt and obloquy\u2019 Disgrace, especially that brought about by public condemnation. \u2018conduct to which no more obloquy could reasonably attach\u2019 [Oxford Dictionaries] New word to me. Noted in “New Hope and New Danger on the Left,” Andrew Sullivan, New York: If the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24147,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24146\/revisions\/24147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}