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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I've worked places that wouldn't use language like targeting, much less reloading, for that reason.
In other news, how am I bored and want to get out of the house?? I love sitting at home! And it's still (or again) snowing across my windows. Maybe I'll take a shower and then do my nails.
Maybe if that were happening in a vacuum, but it's not. It's happening in an atmosphere of actual death threats, murders & "liberal hunting licenses." That's not really happening with sports gun metaphors, and if someone had made such a slip of the tongue, say after an athlete had received a death threat, there would be apologies all around if not firings.
I dunno, saying that you're targeting a particular race doesn't seem violent even though targeting is a kind of gun metaphor. Saying you're reloading, in the sense of preparing for a second try at something, doesn't seem especially violent to me even though it comes from the idea of reloading a gun. That one comes up in sports quite a bit, "X's team doesn't rebuild, it reloads".
No, it doesn't. Because Palin stays strictly metaphorical.
She is in the company, however, of many people who do not.
This is all very well crafted. The men who created and fund this little "grass roots" movement are smart and wily as their followers are ignorant and obedient.
I'm taking a PTO day on Friday--yay! That makes it yet another week in which I don't work a full five days; the last time I did that was the week before Thanksgiving week.
I have a good excuse, which is that I have to drop off stuff at the local food pantry, only open 9-4:30 M-F, and I do have to run some other errands, best done during the day, so I'll be busy. But at least I get to sleep in some.
She says right-wing violent rhetoric does not incite people to violence. But accusing someone of inciting violence can incite violence.
Words Sarah Palin does not know:
Captain logic is not driving her tug boat.
I popped up my Goggle page and on the top of my news widget was the line "Palin Plays the Victim Card." Hey CBS, that's her entire deck, it isn't news.
Oy. There's a guy on a friend's FB link arguing that teachers always teach their beliefs a bit. As an example, he uses teaching To Kill A Mockingbird by saying, "When we teach To Kill a Mockingbird, we talk about how racism is wrong." To which I replied that I thought that wasn't really a belief, racism is just wrong.
He now says I'm quibbling over terms...Dude. I seriously hope he's not really a teacher.
In a way, it doesn't matter what Palin actually intended or what Loughner's motive turns out to be. Palin has used violent imagery. Including a cross-hairs aimed at Giffords (among others). And express firearm metaphors.
Maybe it's a coincidence that Giffords was targeted, maybe it isn't. But until we get clear answers, there's a legitimate question of whether the imagery -- and specifically, the cross-hairs -- influenced Loughner. And the very legitimacy of the question means that Palin has A Problem. Because the cause-and-effect issue is out there. And it'll be a long, hard road (if it's even possible) to put that issue back in.
And what's even more frightening is that Palin isn't the worst offender in terms of audience plus extremity of violent imagery. ("Tiller the Baby Killer" comes to mind.)
And in further symbolism, I'm listening to a (recorded) radio program featuring soul hits of 1968, a tense year in U.S. history if there ever was one. Playing -- "Little Green Apples." As gentle (albeit sexist, in its way) a love song as you could want.
To which I replied that I thought that wasn't really a belief, racism is just wrong.
Not to a racist.