(November 6, 2017 at 2:43 pm)Aroura Wrote:(November 6, 2017 at 2:13 pm)wallym Wrote: 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.Wow, moving the goalpost to equality. What demons.
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!"
I'm not sure why you're concluding that I don't support equality, or think their tactics were inappropriate.
It was an insanely smart plan. I assume it was a plan. They did in 15 years what most oppressed groups can't do in 100. And plenty of other marginalized folks have been able to ride their coattails as well.
