CathyInBlue
Grandmaster
To be clear, Susan is not using the inclusive "our" in that title. She, herself, is not a part of any gun culture besides anti-gun culture.
Susan Meister: The shame of our gun culture - MontereyHerald.com :
But I truly do not believe she was thinking criticly about what she was writing, especially in the final passages. There, she brought up the McCarthy era (no, not Kevin McCarthy, the new House Majority Leader, Joseph McCarthy, ardent anti-Communist). Joe was shunted into the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and began haranguing government employees from the Voice of America to the US Army itself for months and years, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?" The reason I think Ms. Meister flunked Critical Thinking 101, is because she brings this up after laying out a meticulous plan for anti-gun zealots to begin haranguing celebrities, cultural notables, and everyday Americans, relentlessly, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a gun owner?"
She correctly references that the end of the McCarthy era came when people got tired of Joe's apparent "beating up on the special needs kids". Her proposition is that the anti-gun crowd will get the NRA-ILA to back down by showing them to be "beating up on the special needs kids" just like McCarthy was shutdown. The point that completely eludes her is the fact that she is, in fact, attempting to become, with her anti-gun friends, the new Joe McCarthys. She falsely attempts to draw parallels between NRA lobbying and Joe McCarthy, but Joe, while trying to root out Communists, never turned his magnifying glass on the Congress itself, which is where the NRA-ILA's efforts are chiefly directed in the federal sphere. By directing their ire at everyday American gun owners, Meister wants the anti-gun crowd to engage in McCarthyism of the worst kind, all while charging those who she would target with McCarthyism.
Doublethink, thy name is Susan Meister.
Susan Meister: The shame of our gun culture - MontereyHerald.com :
But I truly do not believe she was thinking criticly about what she was writing, especially in the final passages. There, she brought up the McCarthy era (no, not Kevin McCarthy, the new House Majority Leader, Joseph McCarthy, ardent anti-Communist). Joe was shunted into the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and began haranguing government employees from the Voice of America to the US Army itself for months and years, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?" The reason I think Ms. Meister flunked Critical Thinking 101, is because she brings this up after laying out a meticulous plan for anti-gun zealots to begin haranguing celebrities, cultural notables, and everyday Americans, relentlessly, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a gun owner?"
She correctly references that the end of the McCarthy era came when people got tired of Joe's apparent "beating up on the special needs kids". Her proposition is that the anti-gun crowd will get the NRA-ILA to back down by showing them to be "beating up on the special needs kids" just like McCarthy was shutdown. The point that completely eludes her is the fact that she is, in fact, attempting to become, with her anti-gun friends, the new Joe McCarthys. She falsely attempts to draw parallels between NRA lobbying and Joe McCarthy, but Joe, while trying to root out Communists, never turned his magnifying glass on the Congress itself, which is where the NRA-ILA's efforts are chiefly directed in the federal sphere. By directing their ire at everyday American gun owners, Meister wants the anti-gun crowd to engage in McCarthyism of the worst kind, all while charging those who she would target with McCarthyism.
Doublethink, thy name is Susan Meister.
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