Guns Save Life has friends in all sorts of places and we get lots of tips.
One of our closest friends gave me a good tip in recent days, steering me to Joan Peterson’s blog. You almost surely haven’t heard of her blog before, as she’s a rabid ideologue whose only claim to fame is that a relative was killed by a spree killer (or something like that). Instead of blaming the mentally depraved killer, she irrationally blames the tool he used. Not surprisingly, her irrationality doesn’t stop there. She vomits it forth, seemingly about everyday on her blog.
Not to worry though, nobody cares. Her Alexa ranking is about 13,309,000. In plain English, that means her traffic is measured in scores of visitors per month, not thousands per day as ours are.
From her blog (here), this is the money quote:
What I want to know is whether those same items representing the Confederacy will still be sold at gun shows across the country? Will we still see photos of guys like this, strutting around with the hateful flag plus their AR-15s? How offensive can you get? Or remember the prom goers posing for a photo with their guns and that flag? Or this “good guy” with a gun who pulled his gun out and pointed it at young kids who made fun of the Confederate flag image on his truck?Offensive stuff for sure.
Pay attention to that first link. It is a Google search for “guys with guns and confederate flags”.
Go read this piece from By D.C. McAllister at The Federalist.com. If you’re pressed for time, here’s the Cliff’s Notes:
Now that South Carolina has taken down the Confederate flag flying on statehouse grounds, MSNBC is drumming the five whose state flags incorporate “Confederate themes.”
They continue to prove liberals are never satisfied. We fought the Civil War. We ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. We have the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The civil-rights movement was a success. Now, we have South Carolina pulling down the Confederate flag. But it’s still not enough. And Hillary Clinton agrees…
Whites Must Stop Being Racists, But They Can’t
Shelby Steele, author of “White Guilt,” calls this “manipulating stigma.” With the victory of the civil-rights movement, whites lost their moral authority—something that inevitably happens when you admit you’ve done something wrong. As a nation, we confessed our racist past, and we righted that wrong. That should have been the end of it, but with the loss of that moral authority came an increase in the moral authority of minorities—power they and the Democratic Party have twisted and used to advance one social-justice agenda after another. Steele says this happens because of white guilt, and the stigma of racism reinforces white guilt.
The best paragraph in the otherwise excellent piece:
…The Confederate flag controversy has never been about being sensitive to minorities in the aftermath of the dreadful mass murder in South Carolina. It has been about stigma and the Democratic Party using it to delegitimize anyone who doesn’t bend to its will. Steele explains that if an individual or institution in America is stigmatized as racist, then they are delegitimized. They lose all power and authority and influence. They are marginalized and ostracized. When that happens, they can be easily defeated or manipulated.
The delegitimization is just the latest technique of anti-gunners to attack pro-gun groups, individuals, etc.
Look for more of it in the coming days and months. So long as they can capitalize on the make-believe issue of the Confederate flag – thanks to the faulty perceptions of said flag and its meaning – they will attempt to batter us with it.
The solution?
Why are leftists so anti-freedom?
Gun laws are classist, racist, and sexist. Why are leftists such hateful control-freaks?
And my favorite: I don’t want to manipulate anyone using the Confederate flag or other similar distrations. I want people to understand the truth so we will all be better, smarter citizens.
This is precisely what I have been saying, that the symbol is merely a tool to control and divide people (sheeple) into manageable voting blocs.
We no longer teach history, how our forefathers would be
‘terrorists’ today, and we continue to dull/drug/label kids into neat little boxes where they can’t imagine riding in the back of a pickup truck, or ‘gasp’ ride their bikes sans helmet.. the horrors!!
I can only hope and pray that there is a silent and growing majority of people who have had their fill of the media fueled nonsense and are about to push back.. hard.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
Rahm “Deadfish” Emmanuel
….or a phony one.
Confederate regalia, be it the battle flag or other icons, are symbols of treason and failure that became prominent symbols among racists during the Civil Rights Movement. That said, these symbols shouldn’t be made illegal since displaying them is covered by the First Amendment. But anyone that displays these symbols is kidding themselves if they don’t acknowledge the racist heritage that is represented.
Treason? You mean states rights, just consent of the governed, and an initially peaceful attempt at succession from an overbearing and tyrannical federal government that wasn’t playing by the rules?
Racist? You mean a war against Northern aggression that had nothing to do with slavery until the racist war criminal Lincoln used it as a tactic against the south?
Hmm. Don’t think it’s as cut and dried as you make it seem.
What’s the right that the southern state really wanted to preserve? A quick hint, it involved a large population of people who were unable to to give “just consent of the governed” due to this right.
I suggest you pick up the Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (for starters) and/or spend some time with Google looking at alternate sources, other than the state sanctioned mythology you’ve obviously been exposed to.
“We fought the civil war to end slavery” is a flat out LIE.
Says a Northerner who’s never lived in the South, but has spent time researching this.
There seems to be a limit on how many replied can be made. Anyway, I agree, the North didn’t fight the war to free slaves. That was a tangential result. However slavery was a primary reason the South seceded. They wanted to maintain the institution which was threatened by the possibility of new territories becoming free states.
Interestingly, the South was all about States rights, up until the point that they weren’t. Several Northern states refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and passed laws giving runaway sanctuary. Suprisingly, this example of State’s Rights wasn’t appreciated by the South.
They’re symbols of southern pride.
If you wish to associate them with something they have little to nothing to do with, then that’s up to you.
However, plenty of Americans won’t be cowed into bowing at the altar of liberalism.
It’s pretty tone deaf to not recognize that the symbols were co-opted by people who opposed civil rights in the early 20th century. It’s also silly to not recognize that the Confederacy was really into slavery. They loved it. They were, ahem, proud of it.
That said, the flag shouldn’t be banned. The last thing we should do is imitate Germany’s policy of censoring and banning displays of symbols from their past. First Amendment protects us from that. That said, the First Amendment also allows me to criticize those displays.
Something being co-opted by racist @$$-clowns doesn’t erase the majority interpretation by Southerners noted by Dyspeptic Skeptic.
If some militia-skinhead-nutjobs fly the Gadsen, do we throw it into the trash?
We’ve got to stop giving in to the PC, SJW crowd and call them out, instantly, or we’re going lose this culture war.
“The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon;
and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.”
“Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as
in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself
about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. Captain, that is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.” – Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
In my opinion Stonewall Jackson is on of the Greatest Christian men of our nation, the other would be George Washington.
What we are seeing with the confederate flag is the very reason I am against appeasement and concessions; You empower your adversary