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May 14, 2009
My "unmistakable implications" exposed!
Commenter Robert (to a post about parenting) supplied a link to a truly amazing piece titled "Gun Control Is a Reproductive Justice Issue." Among other things, the author claims that gun control opponents are racists: In casting the gun issue as a matter of individual rights and responsibilities, the gun lobby only fuels the criminalization and scapegoating of impoverished people of color, especially young men. Framing the issue this way has an unmistakable implication: better-off white people must know how to handle their guns responsibly, and low-income people of color must not--why else would there be so many more gun crimes and deaths in *those* neighborhoods? *Those* people got what was coming to them, didn't they?That "unmistakable implication," of course, is entirely in the mind of the author, who has read race into arguments that have nothing to do with race. As a matter of fact, in the last story about home-invasion self defense that I discussed, the victims of the invasion (including the heroic man who defended them with a gun) appear to have been black. At the time, I didn't think the race of the victims was worth even mentioning (much less discussing), but now that I see "individual rights and responsibilities" being interpreted as fueling "the criminalization and scapegoating of impoverished people of color," I thought I should speak up in defense of the victims, lest they be seen as white racist vigilantes because of "unmistakable implications" on my part. Honestly, I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. posted by Eric on 05.14.09 at 11:55 AM
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Actually it was a link to this post: http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2007/10/kings_alternate.html M. Simon · May 14, 2009 02:10 PM Weren't gun control laws used at one time specifically to disarm black people so that they could more easily be controlled? Gun control is what's racist... Bolie Williams IV · May 14, 2009 04:45 PM The real point here is not the person's actual argument. That's just the carrier for the real message, which is the attempted intimidation via the race card. Just as any and all criticism of Obama is ipso facto racist and thus can be dismissed without further comment, by tarring gun rights supporters as racists he instantly dodges any need to address specific arguments or data. Steve Skubinna · May 14, 2009 09:51 PM |
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It seems like the guy doesn't know about gun control history. It was used by Southern whites to keep post Civil War Blacks from Arming.
http://www.lesjones.com/posts/004857.shtml
BTW Eric. You got a link to this post right at the top of the above url. Way to go!