{"id":3285,"date":"2023-08-18T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:30:31","slug":"reductio-ad-absurdum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/18\/reductio-ad-absurdum\/","title":{"rendered":"Reductio ad Absurdum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3284\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Fig2-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Fig2-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Fig2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Fig2-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Fig2-624x442.jpg 624w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Fig2.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/gallery\/2023\/08\/18\/the-nations-cartoonists-on-the-week-in-politics-00111688?slide=12\">politico.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Update 11\/22\/2025)\u00a0 A Joke?\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From Digby\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.net\/2025\/11\/21\/5-4-3-2-1\/\">Hulabaloo<\/a> about Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4669 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Update1-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Update1-Fig2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Update1-Fig2-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Update1-Fig2-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Reductio-ad-Absurdum-Update1-Fig2-624x386.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A note on the original post<\/strong>.\u00a0 I fear as time passes the context for the original post will be forgotten and the meaning of the background will be missed.\u00a0 The empty book shelves in the classroom are a reminder of the rampant book banning at the time, which is still ongoing.\u00a0 And the Pro and Con chart on slavery is a reminder of when MAGA said that slavery was a benefit to the enslaved since many learned a trade.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; politico.com (Update 11\/22\/2025)\u00a0 A Joke?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-vistas","tag-math-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4670,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}