Tuesday, March 05, 2013

A Liberal Assessment

Many Democrats find joy in caricaturing gun owners -- even of the non-absolutist variety -- as mouth-breathing barbarians. [More]
But it's OK to do that to absolutists?

The snot just drips from these self-styled elitists who think they're so much more sophisticated than anyone who's not one of them.  That those are precisely the characteristics exhibited by stereotypical ignorant provincial  bigots seems not to even register.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Many Democrats find joy in caricaturing gun owners -- even of the non-absolutist variety -- as mouth-breathing barbarians.

Indeed. I'd comment in my own words, but the following quote from the fellow who did the Stanford Prison Experiment is quite powerful:

Dehumanization -- At the core of evil is the process of dehumanization by which certain other people or collectives of them, are depicted as less than human, as non comparable in humanity or personal dignity to those who do the labeling...

~Philip Zimbardo
The Lucifer Effect
http://www.lucifereffect.com/dehumanization.htm