“People keep saying, 'We need to have a conversation about race,’” Morrison said. “This is the conversation. I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back. And I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman. Then when you ask me, 'Is it over?’, I will say yes.” [More]This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report notes nothing quite says "repression" like one of Obama's Presidential Freedom Medal recipients.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Novelist’s violent wishes exemplify ‘progressive’ paradox on guns and more
The Illusion of Safety
Oregon ivory ban bill puts gun and knife owners in undefined legal danger
Bill author Haas could not define how you measure volume-based content on a gun (or on a piano), nor was a "legal" way for documenting an item predating 1976 specified. Again Haas deferred, saying that would be "up to law enforcement." [More]This morning's Gun Rights Examiner report notes just because an incompetently-written ban contains laughable absurdities doesn't mean citizens found in violation will see the humor.
We're the Only Ones Not Ready for Our Close-Up Enough
No, Of Course He Doesn't Mean Christian Bakers Can Start Burning Things
Non-violence is a type of political performance designed to raise awareness and win over sympathy of those with privilege. When those on the outside of struggle—the white, the wealthy, the straight, the able-bodied, the masculine—have demonstrated repeatedly that they do not care, are not invested, are not going to step in the line of fire to defend the oppressed, this is a futile political strategy. It not only fails to meet the needs of the community, but actually puts oppressed people in further danger of violence. [More]See, just as only whites can be racists, only those WITHOUT "privilege," as subjectively defined by domestic enemies, can legitimately engage in acts of violence, looting and arson, plus justify them as "self-defense."