So, A Paranoid Hoplophobe Who Happens To Be a Black Woman Walks Into a Gun Show

[jordan179]

Responding to Kashana Cauley, "A Black Woman Walks Into a Gun Show."

As a Wisconsin native, I’m used to squinty-eyed white Midwestern suspicion. But since we stood several hundred feet from a lot of guns and I figured the guys were probably armed, my feet froze.

You actually think that guys are randomly and in public going to shoot you? What, you

Comments

[prester_scott]

Anti-gunners who insult pro-gunners are being inconsistent. If we really are all unhinged, neurotic, prone to violence, etc., then isn't it dangerous to provoke us? Some liberals have been consistent on this point as regards Muslims, as for example when Comedy Central censored the South Park episode with Muhammad in it. But with respect to conservatives they just can't seem to help themselves.

[shadowfox24]

You need to email this to her!

[beesandbrews]

She seemed to go in with an awful lot of preconceptions and then went out of her way to have that experience. If she acted as phobic as she described I'm not surprised people were looking at her funny.

[banner]

I doubt they were looking at her funny at all. I suspect it was all in her head, because she sounds pretty mental.

[beesandbrews]

I was giving her the benefits of the doubt. However you do have a point that her impression could have been more of her projecting her own feelings.

[x_eleven]

Maybe she's not the least bit "mental". Since this is a leftoid we're talking about, she just as easily have been making it up. To support the liberal Narrative™; wouldn't be the first time that happened. After all, aren't "gun nuts" supposed to be nuts? Isn't everyone at that gun show --><-- this close to perpetrating a mass shooting? Isn't this what left whack-o-doodles been telling us for decades now?

[xiphias]

I don't think I read the same article you did. I saw her talking about how, other than the Confederate flag thing and a couple of people with racist T-shirts, everyone was pretty nice, and there was at least a little diversity.

[jordan179]

A T-shirt that says "It's Not Racist If It's True" is racist?

[banner]

Facts are racist.

[xiphias]

Does it mean that the person reacts to people based on categories rather than as individuals?

[robby]

I've noticed a huge amount of dishonesty in what people post. Much of it is political propaganda, meant to further an underlying social agenda. In this case, the details and reactions were exaggerated for dramatic effect. The OP doesn't believe this herself, but adds to the misinformation and brainwashing that is swirling all around us.

[jordan179]

The great irony is that the only even marginally-offensive things she described in that whole gun show were the Confederate flags, and she didn't realize that was what she was describing. At one point, she described being called "sweetie" as if it were an insult. She very obviously goes through life looking for things at which to take offense, and then wonders why she seems to get offended a lot.

[robby]

You're right. She went in with preconceived notions, and then twisted everything for dramatic effect. Nothing is learned, and the noise is turned up just a little higher.