(November 6, 2017 at 2:13 pm)wallym Wrote:Wow, moving the goalpost to equality. What demons.(November 6, 2017 at 1:41 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: You haven't been keeping up with the NRA propaganda if that's what you think.
The details of propaganda are for the unwashed masses to cry about on social media. The crux of the issue is found in the objective of the propaganda. Which is what I said in my first post. NRA recognizes the rational endpoint of the opposition is no guns. Their objective is to make sure it stays as far from that as possible. What they are doing is how you do that.
I've been lucky enough to watch the gay rights movement unfold as I've grown up. It was masterful. When I was young, not sure when, I remember Kurt Loder on MTv promoting 'alternative lifestyle.' They weren't bad people, they were just different. And that's all they wanted. Then for it to be an accepted lifestyle. Then it was civil unions. We don't want marriage, just our own thing. Then it was marriage. Then you had to view their marriage as positive. Then you had to bake a cake for their marriage by law, and now if you tried to call being gay an alternative lifestyle, you'd be a bigot.
The way they kept moving the goalpost as the young people they targeted grew older and took up a larger portion of the social defining demographic was genius. And good on them. But I'm sure when it all started someone said "Next thing you know, they'll be trying to get married." And someone else said "Slippery slope fallacy!"
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
