Dear Rebecca:
I’ve been thinking a lot about the interplay between civility and justice lately, resisting the idea that we have to hate our neighbors who think differently than us, feeling like any political victories we achieve in such an atmosphere might be hollow and rickety.
But then there’s this ad from the NRA:
(Sorry, the video is not embedding. Follow the link and watch.)
And, um, I’m terrified.
It makes me wonder if civility is beside the point. Safety is first, then justice. I see no love for their fellow citizens in this ad, no understanding – or even a care to understand – what might motivate them. All I see is hate and rage.
They hate you. They hate me. And they love it. They need it.
God help us all.
Joel
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[…] Thanks for sharing the NRA’s appalling new video, in which conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch basically calls for NRA members to hunt for liberals. She invites violence against a mysterious and vague “they” who are teaching America school kids that Trump is like Hitler (While I think the comparison can be useful, even if its overwrought, I’ve not seen in taught in public schools. In fact, where I live, the school teachers are heavily pro-Trump.), interrupting traffic (an allusion to Black Lives Matter), and calling NRA members racist, sexist, xenophobic, and homophobic. (True, true, true, and also true.) […]
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