In the process, I came across a really interesting article written from the right-wing perspective. Being quite liberal myself, it was extremely interesting to read about such a heated event from such an unfamiliar point of view.
I decided to share the article with you, in case anyone else is interested. Click here to be taken to the page.
One paragraph especially caught my attention:
Even as word began coming out that the crazed gunman left a goodbye note to friends on Myspace and that many of his previous postings on the site were a mixed bag of almost insane nonsense from anger over illiteracy in Gifford’s District to just babbling gibberish and that the gunman’s favorite books were Mien Kompf [sic] written by Adolph Hitler and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, the left wing media still tried to tie his actions to conservative politics.
It seems to me that these things,
- Myspace
- Anger about illiteracy
- Adololph Hitler's Mein Kampf
- and Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto
are being equated with liberalism. Or perhaps, they are simply being offered as alternative explanations to conservative politics being related to the incident.
Either way, I found the paragraph rather intriguing, and hoped some of you would be willing to share your thoughts on it, or the article as whole.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Before you comment, please note that this is not my blog post. My blog post is titled "Aristotle's Well-Bred Insolence", so if you're going for class credit, you should check that out.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds to me more like those are alternative explanations, rather than ascribed to a liberal stance. I'm not sure that either book, for instance, could be called "liberal".
ReplyDeleteThanks for the article! It was quite interesting.
ReplyDeleteEspecially the part where he says
"Now as this faithful American servant of the people is fighting for her life it is not time for politics but to stand as Americans behind a fellow American"
I couldn't agree more. Though it's ironic (and somewhat hilarious) that he chooses to follow this statement with multiple paragraphs of politically-charged accusations.
In response to the paragraph you presented, I'm guessing that Taylor means to argue that it was a combination of mental illness and leftist politics, though he may be merely discrediting the idea of conservative-causation. I can seem the Manifesto being associated with liberalism(after all, isn't "socialist" the preferred slur for liberals?). Myspace, I guess, could be connected to liberalism in that liberals tend to be younger, as do users of social networking sites. I'm not sure that either side promotes illiteracy, and hopefully neither endorses (or IS) Hitler.