Commentary: Right Wing Insane Asylum

Rachard Aberdeen writes . . .Certain responders to my recent article published by The Tennessean have labeled me "rude and impolite", among other things; perhaps worse, some no-nothing liberal from California, which is only one of far too many to remember states I am "from".


I can recall many angry letters written into The Tennessean when they published a letter of mine pointing out that just perhaps, conservative Christian "family values" may be a little out of focus. And, that just perhaps, slaughtering 500,000 Muslims, carrying signs about something Jesus never mentioned while homeless children and veterans who are very much already born, remain sleeping under bridges and, condemning a couple of billion homosexuals, may not quite be what Jesus had in mind when he said to go into all the world and preach the good news of peace and goodwill to EVERY person.

For example, conservatives, including a conservative minister or two or three, seemed to have no qualms about branding me a "traitor", "socialist" "Communist", "unpatriotic", "un-American", and God forbid, apparently the worst slur in their eyes of all, a "liberal". I was called all of these terms and many more that were not printed for obvious reasons, but sent to me privately.

Funny, but I can't recall anyone from the NRA writing in and branding them as being "impolite and rude". No one in the over 100 responses I received, positive and more so, negative, ever said they thought it was "impolite and rude" for someone who calls themselves a Christian minister to unilaterally brand someone else a "traitor", "anti-Christ" and "un-American", simply for pointing out the obvious.

Nobody at that time stood up to say they "wouldn't tolerate" such impoliteness and rudeness. I'm reminded of the unsuspecting liberal guest unfortunate enough to be too ignorant to turn down an invite to the Bill O'Reily show, who will be in for more than a little "impolite and rude" awakening once O'Liely opens up his big fat mouth to spew out his biased and bigoted, hot-button response of the moment.

And, I'm reminded of a time not long ago in America, when it was considered "impolite and rude" in both the North and the South, to call human slavery a degenerate institution, in the off-chance it might offend some poor unsuspecting slave owner or his cousin third removed. Of course, nobody considered it impolite or rude at the time for light-skinned people to call people of darker skin and to publish in newspapers, every racist remark known to mankind and some perhaps, not even God had ever heard of before. Nobody wrote in to newspapers calling it impolite, if certain lighter-skinned people who had all the guns, all the education and all the wealth, hid behind white hoods and dirty sheets and went ahead and raped, mutilated and lynched whoever they decided was too dark for their own good, accordingly.

And now, we have certain members of the NRA calling me impolite and rude for branding the Nefarious RightWing Asylum for what it clearly is and for insinuating that some people's “guns” are perhaps, not quite as big as they might fancy them to be. Some folks might consider it "impolite and rude" for the NRA, John McCain and others to come out with both guns blazing (such as they are), the very same day 33 people at Virginia Tech lost their lives to entirely avoidable human carnage that probably would never have happened if the State of Virginia had better and wiser gun regulations in place. (Of course, water might just start running up hill all by itself and the sun might just decide not rise someday, who can say for absolutely sure?)

In my opinion, for what it's worth, Harriet Tubman, who sometimes resorted to violence herself, had a considerably bigger gun than the entire membership of the NRA combined. I don't consider that statement "rude and impolite". Rather, it just an historical fact. I'm not sure how good of an apology this is, but it is the best I can come up with without resorting to penning a deliberate lie.

Richard Aberdeen
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