{"id":3995,"date":"2016-12-11T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2016-12-11T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:15:58","slug":"culture-war-against-gun-people-the-mean-girls-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/culture-war-against-gun-people-the-mean-girls-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"CULTURE WAR AGAINST GUN PEOPLE: THE \u201cMEAN GIRLS\u201d EFFECT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you listen to what the anti-gun activists say about us gun owners (and <em>to<\/em> us on the rare occasions when there is actually dialogue), you can see the parallels to bullying, elitist high school cliques as typified in the movie \u201cMean Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A certain kind of person needs to feel they\u2019re better than others, and comes to believe that belittling others will so elevate them.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re better than you because \u2013\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe make more money than you.\u201d \u201cOur house\/watch\/car is more expensive than yours.\u201d \u201cOur skin color is more politically correct today than yours.\u201d\u00a0 And cetera.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an example. Budget yourself about ten minutes for this Not Safe For Work or Little Kids diatribe against a guy wearing a #BuildTheWall shirt, delivered by a couple of lightweight yuppies who have yet to realize that denigrating people they don\u2019t know does not create the smug superiority to others that they seek, seem to feel, but do not achieve:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VsoVYStL6gQ\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VsoVYStL6gQ\" target=\"_blank\">video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder a current meme has arisen that says, \u201cDemocrats haven\u2019t been this angry at Republicans since the Republicans freed the Democrats\u2019 slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you listen to what the anti-gun activists say about us gun owners (and to us on the rare occasions when there is actually dialogue), you can see the parallels to bullying, elitist high school cliques as typified in the movie \u201cMean Girls.\u201d A certain kind of person needs to feel they\u2019re better than others, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}