We talk gun control after shootings. We should also talk about banning cars from big cities, writes @jessiesingernyc https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessesinger/ban-cars …pic.twitter.com/RK32sTdc4N
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We talk gun control after shootings. We should also talk about banning cars from big cities, writes @jessiesingernyc https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessesinger/ban-cars …pic.twitter.com/RK32sTdc4N
This just seems like the urbane liberal's version of "using terrorist attacks as a pretext to achieve my pre-existing policy preferences"
Sure. Although "events actually happening in the world are a reminder of why we should do X" are like, the entire way we argue about things?
Maybe, but that style of argumentation is correctly denounced when it comes from the Right as feeding on emotionalism and irrationality.
(ie at least in my head, most on the left / liberal side believe it's fine to "politicize" events like this)
"Politicizing" is one thing, invoking the specter of "terrorism" with all the emotionally-manipulative baggage that entails is another.
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