{"id":23876,"date":"2021-01-18T06:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=23876"},"modified":"2021-01-18T06:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:56:27","slug":"a-new-leninism-is-gripping-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/a-new-leninism-is-gripping-america\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Leninism Is Gripping America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>James Lindsay on Repressive Tolerance &amp; Free Speech<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The shocking assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has been followed by widespread censorship and de-platforming of Americans, including President Trump, with the professed goal of preventing violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>James Lindsay, co-author of the bestseller \u201cCynical Theories,\u201d argues the Capitol breach has been used to implement a major power grab and \u201capply Leninism to the American context, using corporations as part of the toolset.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the \u201cwoke\u201d movement in action, Lindsay argues. The ideology involves an inverted morality, he says, allowing it to apply double standards when it comes to political violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, James Lindsay, founder of the New Discourses website, gives us his take on our current political moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FGiRGPq6Axo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lindsay on Repressive Tolerance &amp; Free Speech The shocking assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has been followed by widespread censorship and de-platforming of Americans, including President Trump, with the professed goal of preventing violence. James Lindsay, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/a-new-leninism-is-gripping-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23878,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions\/23878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}