Cringe
Things that make me nauseous...here is David Kopel's entire post over at VC:
Memo to Kopel -- antebellum means BEFORE the Civil War. KKK formed AFTER the Civil War. But I'm sure the rest of the article is rivetting. [Note sarcasm].
Update: I guess someone else sent him the memo too since he now corrected the mistake. But I'm sure the rest of the article is rivetting. [Note continuing sarcasm].
Update II: At the risk of stepping into treacherous waters, I should probably explain my sarcasm. The framing of the description of the article (aside from the fact that it's a reason.com aritcle) tells me that it will probably be *cough* historically accurate *cough* for the most part, but conveniently blind to other important factors...meaning it's a piece of persuasive writing that will preach to the choir and not convert the unbelievers (yours truly among them). And that's why I'm not even going to bother reading the article. It's basically akin to someone who wants to attack Corporate America saying, "I have an article that describes how free market was used to help advance the Nazi cause" (and by implication we should never ever have something that could be used for such bad purposes, i.e. gun control, or free market, or whatever it is that you're attacking.) It's just hackery for a cause and nothing substantive.
Here are some ideas of my own. Was it gun control that was used to continue gross hate crimes in (yes that's right) Post-Civl War South or was it just the state apparatus sympathetic to inequities? Oooh, that just sounds beautiful to me. I'd like to see some of the proponents of Affirmative Action come up with that on their own. You get the idea.
Gun Control in the 19th Century South: My new column for Reason.com explains how the Ku Klux Klan and other racists used gun control in the antebellum South to disarm the Freedmen, paving the way for the destruction of their civil rights.
Memo to Kopel -- antebellum means BEFORE the Civil War. KKK formed AFTER the Civil War. But I'm sure the rest of the article is rivetting. [Note sarcasm].
Update: I guess someone else sent him the memo too since he now corrected the mistake. But I'm sure the rest of the article is rivetting. [Note continuing sarcasm].
Update II: At the risk of stepping into treacherous waters, I should probably explain my sarcasm. The framing of the description of the article (aside from the fact that it's a reason.com aritcle) tells me that it will probably be *cough* historically accurate *cough* for the most part, but conveniently blind to other important factors...meaning it's a piece of persuasive writing that will preach to the choir and not convert the unbelievers (yours truly among them). And that's why I'm not even going to bother reading the article. It's basically akin to someone who wants to attack Corporate America saying, "I have an article that describes how free market was used to help advance the Nazi cause" (and by implication we should never ever have something that could be used for such bad purposes, i.e. gun control, or free market, or whatever it is that you're attacking.) It's just hackery for a cause and nothing substantive.
Here are some ideas of my own. Was it gun control that was used to continue gross hate crimes in (yes that's right) Post-Civl War South or was it just the state apparatus sympathetic to inequities? Oooh, that just sounds beautiful to me. I'd like to see some of the proponents of Affirmative Action come up with that on their own. You get the idea.
Labels: Rabid Conservatives
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 12:56 PM
1 Comments:
In limited defense, the actual article makes no reference to the antebellum south, as far as I can tell.
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