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In reply to the discussion: Patton Oswalt: What gun owners think they look like... [View all]apocalypsehow
(12,751 posts)progressive concerns and causes: this is like so much protective coloring on a peacock, meant to deflect and distract attention away from the actual racist, reactionary roots of the "RKBA enthusiast" movement while posting on a progressive discussion board like Democratic Underground.
It is often done clumsily and offensively, but it is a favorite tack of our "pro gun progressives."* I offer the following link, currently a going OP in the Gungeon, as one example among many:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172113546
In the explanatory "comment" part of the OP, the poster states The phrase "transvaginal ultrasound" come to anybody elses mind?
Different bugbear, same mindset..."
It is an explicit, if silly and offensive, attempt to link the right-wing "RKBA" movement with the pro-choice community, and thus attempt to garner allies on this discussion board from genuine progressives by saying, in effect, that the two movements have common concerns and similar ideological affinities and outlooks.
Which is, of course, horseshit - the two movements couldn't be more ideologically, culturally, and politically different and opposed if they tried - but it goes on day after day after day and with dreary regularity both down in the Gungeon and up here in the big forums whenever a firearms-related OP is posted.
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