Arizona Gun-Law Author: ‘Birther’ Is the New N-Word

Right wing persecution complex taken to a whole new level
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Alan Korwin is a writer in Scottsdale, Arizona, who specializes in books about gun law — very pro-gun books about gun law, with titles like After You Shoot: Your Gun’s Hot. The Perp’s Not. Now What?

Mr. Korwin published a screed this week that must be read to be believed, and it’s today’s Most Ridiculous Right Wing Projection/Persecution Fantasy: Alan Korwin, Scottsdale Gun-Law Author, Says ‘Birther’ Is the ‘New ‘N’ Word’.

According to a Scottsdale gun-law author, the word “birther” is a derogatory term “equivalent of the ‘N’ word.”

Perhaps it’s not surprising to hear something a bit nuts coming from the author of After You Shoot: Your Gun’s Hot. The Perp’s Not. Now What?, but Alan Korwin actually got this on the East Valley Tribune and Arizona Republic websites.

“‘Birther,’ used by the media with impunity, is a derogatory slur, the equivalent of the ‘N’ word used for another group to cast them as sub-human,” Korwin writes. “You apply this new ‘N’ word to a huge group of politically-active Americans who’ve raised legitimate questions on a legitimate topic.”

(h/t: wrenchwench.)

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60 comments
1 leftynyc  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:42:41am

Their sense of victimhood is really nauseating.

2 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:44:35am

This would be hilarious if it wasn't firstly so pathetic.

3 darthstar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:46:07am

Someone was thinking about alternatives to hard time...

4 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:46:55am

re: #3 darthstar

Someone was thinking about alternatives to hard time...

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But he's a hero who shot a thug.//

5 ShaunP  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:48:02am

Yeah, libtards. Name calling is hurtful and mean...

//

6 darthstar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:48:09am

re: #4 HappyWarrior

But he's a hero who shot a thug.//

Glad to see they're taking his flight risk seriously..

7 leftynyc  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:48:30am

I hate to go o/t so early but this is unexpected - the judge just put George Zimmerman back in jail:

[Link: livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com...]

8 leftynyc  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:49:12am

Whooops, I see I'm already late with that news. You guys are quick!!!

9 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:50:21am

re: #3 darthstar

Bail is meant to insure that the accused is present to stand trial. It's not meant to be punitive. However, Zimmerman's actions suggest that revoking bail is warranted - that he misrepresented his financial status and was contemplating flight from the court's jurisdiction. Revoking bail sounds like the right move under the circumstances.

10 Kragar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:51:04am

If by N word, he means nitwit, I agree whole heartedly.

11 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:51:24am

Nirther starts with N.

12 Gus  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:51:41am

re: #10 Kragar

If by N word, he means nitwit, I agree whole heartedly.

nincompoop

13 Gus  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:51:58am

ninny

14 Henchman 25  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:52:11am

re: #12 Gus

nincompoop

Ni!

15 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:52:22am

Nutsi.

16 Gus  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:52:37am

re: #15 HappyWarrior

Nutsi.

nutty

17 jaunte  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:52:40am
“‘Birther,’ used by the media with impunity, is a derogatory slur, the equivalent of the ‘N’ word used for another group to cast them as sub-human,” Korwin writes.

Sub-human? I don't think so. Trump, as the currently leading birther, is all too human; his hair may be non-human.

18 iossarian  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:52:46am

numptyhead

19 iossarian  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:53:16am

ne'er-do-well

20 Gus  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:53:21am

nativist

21 Kragar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:54:28am

Nattering Naybobing Naysayer

22 Gus  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:54:43am

noxious

23 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:55:49am

People are born birthers, they are n****s by choice

24 Kragar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:56:56am

Man, its been a while since I was able to use Naybob in the correct context. Its made my day.

25 iossarian  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:57:12am

This guy has a point. After all...

Oh fuck it. I can't be bothered with witty sarcasm. This guy is just one more piece of data to throw onto the "Scottsdale Arizona, Home of Privileged White Male Victimhood" pile.

26 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:57:22am

re: #24 Kragar

Quit your nattering.... it's just so negative. /

27 celticdragon  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:57:31am

After You Shoot: Your Gun's Hot. The Perp's Not. Now What?

Sounds like a topic over at "Policeone", except it needs Officer safety First!!!11ty! added in.

(sort of like Redstate, but for law enforcement who really don't like liberals, Obama and most civilians in general)

28 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:57:50am

Conservative victimhood 101 brought to you by Alan Korwin.

29 iossarian  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:57:54am

re: #27 celticdragon

After You Shoot: Your Gun’s Hot. The Perp’s Not. Now What?

Gay porn?

30 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:57:58am

re: #27 celticdragon

After You Shoot: Your Gun’s Hot. The Perp’s Not. Now What?

Drink! /

31 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:58:38am

re: #17 jaunte

Sub-human? I don't think so. Trump, as the currently leading birther, is all too human; his hair may be non-human.

Trump is a bunch of weird hair with a humanoid growth attached to it.

32 Flounder  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:58:47am

re: #27 celticdragon
I'm goin to Disneyland!!!!

33 Kragar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:58:55am

re: #26 lawhawk

Quit your nattering... it's just so negative. /

Spiro?

34 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 11:59:59am

Nyet.

35 celticdragon  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:00:25pm

Had to fix a couple things in my post.

36 Lidane  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:02:58pm

I can think of another "B" word that applies to these people -- Bigot.

Why don't we use that one instead? It's far more honest.

37 Gus  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:04:20pm

re: #36 Lidane

I can think of another "B" word that applies to these people -- Bigot.

Why don't we use that one instead? It's far more honest.

Bozos, boneheads, braindead, brainless, blockheads, bimbos...

38 celticdragon  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:04:25pm

re: #36 Lidane

I can think of another "B" word that applies to these people -- Bigot.

Why don't we use that one instead? It's far more honest.

How about a BOIL, as in a puss filled infection on the ass of society.

39 Kragar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:04:38pm

re: #36 Lidane

I can think of another "B" word that applies to these people -- Bigot.

Why don't we use that one instead? It's far more honest.

Bilious Buffoons of Bigotry?

40 Gus  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:05:43pm

Barney Bumpkin

41 Lidane  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:06:36pm

re: #38 celticdragon

How about a BOIL, as in a puss filled infection on the ass of society.

Well, yes. But I prefer the simplicity of just calling them bigots. It's what they are.

I always knew that the first non-white POTUS would unhinge a group of people in this country, but I never expected the right wing freakout we've seen. The lack of self-awareness in these people is staggering.

And now, more than ever, I expect the national GOP platform to go full birther. They're the ones who are going to be writing it, after all.

42 celticdragon  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:10:08pm

re: #41 Lidane

Well, yes. But I prefer the simplicity of just calling them bigots. It's what they are.

I always knew that the first non-white POTUS would unhinge a group of people in this country, but I never expected the right wing freakout we've seen. The lack of self-awareness in these people is staggering.

And now, more than ever, I expect the national GOP platform to go full birther. They're the ones who are going to be writing it, after all.

I recalled this line from the classic movie Zulu with Stanley Baker and Micheal Caine:

Reynolds: You've got a fine handsome boil, my friend. There's one glistening boil for every soldier in Africa. You may not win any medals on this campaign, but you'll certainly get more boils. For every gunshot wound I probe, I expect to lance three boils.

Hook: Uh, a spot of medicinal brandy would set me up, sir.

Reynolds: Brandy's for heroes, Mr. Hook. The rest of you will make do with boils in your skin, flies in your meat, and dysentery in your bellies. Now - this will hurt you a lot more than it will me, I'm happy to say.

43 aagcobb  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:14:53pm

No, idiot, its the new 'T' word, as in 'Truther', another group of idiot conspiracy theorists.

44 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:17:05pm

re: #33 Kragar

Agnew him well.

45 abolitionist  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:24:10pm

After You Shoot: Your Gun’s Hot. The Perp’s Not. Now What?

Because perp is police slang for perpetrator* it's obvious this book was/is marketed to Dirty Harry wanna-be's.

*Suspect

Possibly because of the misuse of suspect to mean perpetrator, police have begun to use person of interest, possible suspect, and even possible person of interest, to mean suspect.

Under the judicial systems of the U.S., ..
[snip] Only after being convicted is the suspect properly called the perpetrator.

Before Obama ran for president, I'd have thought birther was merely slang for midwife.

46 darthstar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:24:21pm

Heh...

47 Kragar  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:30:54pm

National Review Writer: Conservatives Should ‘Beat’ Young People Who ‘Think Socialism Is Better Than Capitalism’

GOLDBERG: Personally, I think the voting age should be much, higher, not lower. I think it was a mistake to lower it to 18, to be brutally honest….[I]t is a simple fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity than youth. We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young. And yet there’s this thing in this culture where, ‘Oh, young people are for it so it must be special.’ No, the reason young people are for it because they don’t know better. That’s why we call them young people. [...]

The fact that young people think socialism is better than capitalism. That’s proof of what social scientists call their stupidity and their ignorance. And that’s something that conservatives have to beat out of them. Either literally or figuratively as far as I’m concerned.

48 erik_t  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:31:15pm

re: #39 Kragar

Bilious Buffoons of Bigotry?

Expandable!

Billionaire Bilious Buffoon of Bigotry.

49 Gus  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:31:33pm

re: #46 darthstar

Heh...

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Meh. I've seen her stuff before. She's another Greenwaldbot that thinks Obama isn't puritopian enough to "earn her vote."

50 erik_t  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:31:54pm
51 Lidane  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:33:06pm

re: #47 Kragar

National Review Writer: Conservatives Should ‘Beat’ Young People Who ‘Think Socialism Is Better Than Capitalism’

But remember, kids-- the National Review is a bastion of sane conservatism. They're totally level-headed and reasonable.

52 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:37:53pm

re: #47 Kragar

National Review Writer: Conservatives Should ‘Beat’ Young People Who ‘Think Socialism Is Better Than Capitalism’

He's full of shit about younger voters. And even if he were being honest, having socialist views doesn't justify taking away suffrage. Jonah is just miserable because he knows younger voters know his brand sucks ass.

53 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:42:23pm

You know Goldberg's statements aren't unique. Coulter has whined about how women having the right to vote has resulted in liberalism. I wouldn't be shocked if one of them eventually complained about the 15th amendment. After all complaining about the 14th has gotten popular.

54 makeitstop  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:46:03pm

re: #47 Kragar

National Review Writer: Conservatives Should ‘Beat’ Young People Who ‘Think Socialism Is Better Than Capitalism’

Jonah Goldberg?

Dude isn't capable of beating anyone - but I'm assuming he intends to hire out the beatings to the help.

/

55 HappyWarrior  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:47:25pm

Because beating someone up is the best way to convince them of an idea's merits not you know actual ideas. Jonah's nothing but a little coward.

56 Interesting Times  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 12:58:18pm
57 Schadenfreude 'r' Us  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 1:11:18pm

The last word for a dead thread...

Damn right it's derogatory. Birtherdom is, like they say, a lifestyle choice.

58 usufruct  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 1:38:57pm

If one looks at other writings available online by Korwin, it becomes rather clear that he is a racist. He talks admirably about the Bell Curve and need to talk about the " inherent and genetic superiority (and inferiority) of various groups..." His writings contain all sorts of racists code language. Why he is allowed a voice in this press venues is beyond me.

59 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 2:07:24pm

re: #58 usufruct

If one looks at other writings available online by Korwin, it becomes rather clear that he is a racist. He talks admirably about the Bell Curve and need to talk about the " inherent and genetic superiority (and inferiority) of various groups..." His writings contain all sorts of racists code language. Why he is allowed a voice in this press venues is beyond me.

Wow, he has a "Member Blog" at the Arizona Republic. I guess they have no standards.

60 Eclectic Infidel  Fri, Jun 1, 2012 2:08:14pm

The MBF....

It's just silly. I don't think of birthers as subhuman, just wrong. Very, very, wrong.


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