{"id":44732,"date":"2015-05-08T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44732"},"modified":"2015-05-08T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:49:55","slug":"some-doublequotin-flagngun-totin-tweetin-goin-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44732","title":{"rendered":"Some DoubleQuotin&#8217; flag&#8217;n&#8217;gun totin&#8217; tweetin&#8217; goin&#8217; on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; NB: not claiming equivalency, simply documenting some provocative &#8220;compare and contrast&#8221; usage on Twitter ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gun-toting Colorado teens pose for prom pics with Confederate flag as parents egg them on <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/UXtCNOjGFi\">http:\/\/t.co\/UXtCNOjGFi<\/a> h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminNorton\">@BenjaminNorton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hend (@LibyaLiberty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibyaLiberty\/status\/596150452808351744\">May 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>just sayin&#39;. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/GLHLxPgmES\">pic.twitter.com\/GLHLxPgmES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hend (@LibyaLiberty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibyaLiberty\/status\/596150878379184128\">May 7, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the wrong combination of flags and guns have a sneaky way of turning average people into violent bigots.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hend (@LibyaLiberty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibyaLiberty\/status\/596151493008359425\">May 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Ok, there are more parallels between these prom kids &amp; jihadis, as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bilalhb\">@Bilalhb<\/a> pointed out to me. Shahada finger! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Y40IMzYbBP\">pic.twitter.com\/Y40IMzYbBP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hend (@LibyaLiberty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibyaLiberty\/status\/596152661390413824\">May 7, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>We had a similar &#8220;gun, book and flag&#8221; <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong> a while back, though I haven&#8217;t been able to relocate it, and as I remember noticing then, there&#8217;s a sort of <strong>parallax effect<\/strong> that can come into play, whereby some people see a close similarity and not much diference while others see a huge difference and little or no similarity.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s that earlier <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/explain-difference-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/explain-difference-1.jpg\" alt=\"explain-difference-1\" width=\"602\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/explain-difference-1.jpg 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/explain-difference-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want more details about the un\/fairness of the comparison, NRO had a piece on it titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/382104\/holly-fisher-public-enemy-number-310345204-charles-c-w-cooke\">Holly Fisher: Public Enemy Number 310,345,204<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As someone who is interested in juxtaposition both as a means of making points and of raising questions, I find this parallax effect of great interest. I suspect that a decent, insightful study might reveal a great deal about the mechanisms by which humans fissiparate into antagonistic groups.<\/p>\n<p>Fissiparate? Okay, maybe not a word yet, but useful all the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; NB: not claiming equivalency, simply documenting some provocative &#8220;compare and contrast&#8221; usage on Twitter ] . Gun-toting Colorado teens pose for prom pics with Confederate flag as parents egg them on http:\/\/t.co\/UXtCNOjGFi h\/t @BenjaminNorton &mdash; Hend (@LibyaLiberty) May 7, 2015 just sayin&#39;. pic.twitter.com\/GLHLxPgmES &mdash; Hend (@LibyaLiberty) May 7, 2015 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,1151,1081,1080],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-flag","category-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44751,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44732\/revisions\/44751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}