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Make The Argument

 Guns get juxtaposed with abortion. “If right-wingers really cared about…” “If they were REALLY pro-life, they would…”

Go ahead. Make the argument. 

First off, you don’t really want to compare the scale of this. 60 or 70 million unborn children killed. If I gave you every suicide and counted it like a school shooting, the scale would still be massively in the right-winger’s favor. Abortion is the worst genocide in human history. It should pre-empt every regular program on TV, like a daily 9/11, but worse, but it won’t.

Too many “well-meaning” people would have to face their guilt and their complicity. Too many women would have to face the self-infantilization that makes them murderers. We have to sit with that last word: murderers. It’s “extreme” to say that, you say? Murder is the unjustified taking of an innocent human life. What is it, if it’s not that? What is it?

We’re rightly all relieved that the Fort Hood shooter won’t be immortalized on video in death. It’s monstrous, and the people who thought it would be a good thing should be ashamed of themselves.

But let’s flip it: If abortion isn’t morally reprehensible, why don’t we show them all on a livestream? It’s just the removal of “products of conception,” right? If we’re proud of “reproductive choice,” let’s see all of them. I probably wouldn’t be out there showing people pictures of the procedure; that’s not my way. But I am not offended; aren’t they just showing us all the truth?

I’ll do you several solids, as we say. I vow to never vote for a Republican again. I haven’t for 14 years now. You have no hypocrisy with which you can charge me. But I will make you look at the violence that you countenance; I will make you name it for what it is.

If you want to join an effort to abolish the Second Amendment, go for it. It’s a hopeless effort; most people know the difference between self-defense and murder. And I’m not a hunter, but many people eat what they hunt. Some even have to.

But honestly, get this moral equivalence out of my face. One reason I don’t like political memes is they’re like punchlines for bad jokes. If someone isn’t a coward, they start a conversation; if they are, they tell a joke and cower.

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