Salon: Second Amendment is ‘White Supremacy’

Hedges takes the cake for the most contemptible rant about white people: America’s “White supremacy” is to blame for for mass shootings – not just the one done by a white supremacist – all mass shootings. 

In the worst 1619 Kool-Aid style, Hedges claims “The Second Amendment was designed to solidify the rights of white men to carry weapons, which were used to exterminate the indigenous population, hunt down enslaved people who escaped and crush uprisings.” It doesn’t take a constitutional scholar to realize that this is a blatant projection of his existing post-modern Neo-Marxist worldview onto the issue of guns. He views things exclusively through the dichotomy of white vs. black, “oppressor” vs. “oppressed” as a modern adaptation of the Marxist worldview. 

The Second Amendment was intended to protect the people from a tyrannical state and ensure a free society. 

Each American citizen is entitled to the right of bear arms. He laments that most felons aren’t allowed to own guns and calls it a calculated tactic “barring legal gun ownership from a third of black men.” So, never mind the race-baiting;  felons should have guns but not law-abiding citizens? 

He goes on to say that “the gun enforced white supremacy” and that LGBT, Black, Asian, Muslim, and Jewish people will be “slated for execution” along with the undocumented, liberals, feminists, and intellectuals. These are the words of an intelligent man. It’s no surprise that he describes himself as a socialist and anarchist. 

Hedges’ article is a prime example of what happens when a man becomes so infatuated with his own ideas that he can no longer conceive of the world in any other way. This issue shows clearly how Hedges has projected his preconceived views onto it. He uses posthoc reasoning to justify every argument and citation he uses. He hates white people already. The second amendment is already a hated topic for him. He’s been given an opportunity to hate on both, and he took it.