On Thu, 8 May 2014, Michael Scott <luv@inoz.net> wrote:
> What similarities are you finding, Russell?

Here are some of the more relevant parts, you really should read the entire
article.
# Could it be that as you get farther out on the right, you find more people
# whose boundaries are more rigid?  They are the hard liners who draw hard
# lines. Once those lines are drawn, it’s impossible to have sympathy — to
# extend Care — to someone on the other side. If you imagine that you live in
# a world where an attack by Them is always imminent, defending those
# boundaries becomes very important.
#
# That seems to be the world of gun-rights crowd lionizing Zimmerman.  Their
# cherished scenario is the defense of boundaries against those who are
# clearly Not Us.  They stand their ground and defend themselves, their
# families, their houses and property, even their towns and communities.  It
# is a story they never tire of, repeated time after time in NRA publications.
# Zimmerman is a hero because his story, in their view, embodies the narrative
# of righteous slaughter.

> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
> > http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/03/22/to-whom-is-george-zimmerm

> > an-a- hero-and-why

> >
> > The above article seems relevant to the asylum seeker debate in
> > Australia.
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