{"id":65135,"date":"2016-04-07T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65135"},"modified":"2016-04-07T08:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:46:14","slug":"white-resentment-is-fueling-opposition-to-gun-control-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65135","title":{"rendered":"White resentment is fueling opposition to gun control, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to an article in the Washington Post, “White resentment is fueling opposition to gun control, researchers say<\/a>“, in other words, gun ownership is just more of your white privilege. According to the article these two pointy-headed brainiacs, Alexandra Filindra and Noah J. Kaplan, determined that 1000 white people are more likely to oppose gun control after they looked at pictures of black people. Yeah, you read that correctly.<\/p>\n

[These] findings “demonstrate that racial prejudice influences white opinion regarding gun regulation in the contemporary United States,” Filindra and Kaplan conclude. But why would that be the case?<\/p>\n

To explain this, Filindra and Kaplan draw on a rich body of sociological literature about the language of racial resentment, especially among whites. Racial resentment, as Filindra and Kaplan define it, is a prejudice based in the belief that blacks don’t value independence and hard work and instead push for special rights conferred by the government. It upholds whites as morally superior while ignoring the structural advantages of whiteness.<\/p>\n

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Using the language of freedom and individualism in this way “creates this duality between a generic deserving group \u2013 could be homeowners, students, law-abiding citizens \u2013 versus the ‘special rights’ that government is giving to a ‘less deserving’ group,” Filindra explained in an interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know what the Hell that means. I’m thinking that all law abiding citizens of this country have the very same rights regardless of the melanin content of their skin. The pair of pointy-headed brainiacs claim that we use the language, that calling for rights for ‘law-abiding citizens’ and not for ‘criminals’ differentiates whites from blacks. It sounds to me like Filindra and Kaplan are the ones with racist problems. All of the people that I want to protect my family from are white – do I need to name names? I own more guns now than I’ve ever owned in my life, and according to Wiki<\/a>, the town I live in now is 0.30% Black, so obviously I’m buying guns to protect myself from a bunch of white people.<\/p>\n

[F]or a certain subset of white gun-rights supporters, particularly those who are inclined to hold certain prejudicial beliefs, messages about individualism and liberty and rights are understood in a very specific way.<\/p>\n

In the mind of this type of gun owner, “I am showing my white nationalist pride in a sort of generic way through gun ownership,” Filindra posits. “This is my way of expressing my ‘more-equal-than-others’ status in a society where egalitarianism is the norm. I can\u2019t say that some people are better and some are worse in terms of racial groups. But I can show it symbolically. I can show I’m a better citizen.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Balderdash. I own guns because of the inherent equality of law abiding citizens in this country, not some perverted sense of “more equal”. I guess this is more of the media’s attempt to make us feel guilty about gun ownership – like a year or so ago when they were calling us cowards for owning guns. Now we’re racist for owning guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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