This would be amusing, except that these people are in a position to influence a new generation of college kids.
Via Campus Reform:
A professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame published an op-ed in The New York Times linking lenient gun laws in America to racism.
Prof. Gary Gutting argued “permissive gun laws are a manifestation of racism” and invoked “hatred of racism” as a motivation for the gun control movement. According to Gutting, high exposure to guns in largely poor black neighborhoods along with low restrictions on gun ownership permeates a culture of racism.
Gutting, in an effort to rouse his gun control allies, posits racism as the motivational force behind a successful gun control campaign. Racism, in Gutting’s argument, will give the gun control movement “the vigor and persistence needed” to overcome gun lobbyists.
“If we fail to oppose with equal passion and vigor the relentless political pressure of (mostly white) gun advocates, we force a large number of black citizens to live with the constant threat of gun violence. We’re in effect letting the Second Amendment trump the Fourteenth Amendment, implicitly preferring the right of gun ownership to the right of black people to live free from fear,” Gutting argues….
Via NewsBusters:
(Quoting from the Salon piece by Sophia McClennen, Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.)
Fox News is No. 1 in cable news, No. 2 overall (behind ESPN) in Nielsen’s report for 2015—the highest-ever ratings for a cable news network. So it’s official: Fox News has finally destroyed television news and turned it into nothing more than blood sport.
It should come as little surprise that 2015 offered Fox News a healthy bump. Not only did it have the ongoing GOP clown car and the opportunity to host the first GOP debate, which yielded a record-breaking 24 million viewers, but it also had the gift that keeps on giving—Donald Trump…
…Trump literally embodie[s] everything that Fox News stands for — you know, like making things up and refusing to be questioned, rampant bigotry, misogyny and class warfare. Oh, also, favoring cult-like populism over rational democracy; an attitude of bluster, bias and bullying; and a rhetoric of patriotism veiling a politics of elitism…
Up until the launch of Fox News, cable news was well on its way to stupidity—but it wasn’t necessarily partisan stupidity…
…[A]s a consequence of the election of Barack Obama and the founding of the Tea Party…[t]he right wing veered…into a party of extreme fundamentalism and unabashed bigotry. Fox News was where we all got to watch it happen.
That was the time when Fox News went from being a propaganda machine for the GOP to being the Kool-Aid for the party…
Fox News went from being a spectacle heavy, GOP-biased cable news network to a cult. People didn’t just pledge allegiance to the party; they offered loyalty to Fox News…
“Fox News” should no longer be considered a news network. Instead it should be compared…to cult-like networks like CBN with its “news/magazine” program “The 700 Club”…
…Fox News viewers don’t care about reality or the truth…
The original idea behind concealed carry registration of firearms was to keep guns out of the hands of Blacks. Now, Blacks having guns is racism. Leftists love to revise history.
Re Ms. McClennen, Pure Projection. And didn’t some politician previously say that Fox news wasn’t a news network?
A Newsweek ‘journalist’ just tweeted that Cruz and his supporters in Iowa are Nazis. He subsequently deleted the tweet saying that it was unfair to Cruz’s supporters. Glad he cleared that up. (sarc off) BTW, the Newsweek ‘journalist’ used to be on the editorial board of the NY Daily News. Watching their propaganda machines be rejected must be getting to them.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/06/newsweek-journalist-ted-cruz-is-a-nazi/
So, will Congress cave to Obama gun-stealing laws so as not to be called “wacist?”
And the illness of insanity keeps spreading. Strange that it seems to infect the elite in their ivory towers first.