Leave it to Slate to hijack the metaphor.
Hence, all the anti-America sniping from The Left about American Sniper
The sheepdog speech was standart when I entered the military under Carter. I imagine that it goes back to at least the first World War.
This is from Slate, and the girbilism there is of the Wikipedia variety. Do not ever expect them to actually read books to research anything.
Infantry men were using this analogy in the 1960s. It is not new with Lt. Col. Grossman. Slate is wrong again, surprisingly.
The Left will endlessly try to understand the wolf, sympathize with the wolf, identify and live vicariously through the wolf, and do all they can to protect the wolf. The task of the sheepdogs is very complex. They must not only defeat the wolf but it is necessary to root out their supporters.
wrong. In a country where innocent black and white citizens are butchered on a daily basis by the feral urban predator class the speech is particularly appropriate.
The problem with liberals as
Sheep dogs is that they have developed a taste for lamb...
This line of reasoning cannot be stopped until we are willing to argue that these radicals want young blacks to die in order to further their own power.
You mistake race baiting for analysis. And there is ample evidence that stupid is heritable since the morons that wrote this crap are brothers.
I was introduced to this analogy in the police academy in 1987.
Leave it to Slate to hijack and mis-represent.
Oh look...the Cummings brothers have formed their own flock of sheep.
Not the speech but the analogy
This is a crock of shiite from a pencil-neck, who has likely never been in a schoolyard fight!
This is the constant meme of the left: right-wingers are fearful & paranoid.
There will come a day when we can beat our swords into plowshares; but that day has not yet come...
The sheep cannot tell the sheepdogs from the wolves. Witness the fellow attacked at the Walmart last week when a person simply spotted him carrying a holstered firearm.
Read it, and have heard Grossman speak at an Air Force JAG Keystone Conference a few years ago. He’s a military psychologist who also coined the term, “killology” - also the name of his website, IIRC. I was thoroughly impressed with him live, and the book is excellent. One money quote: “If you are legally authorized to carry a gun and you step out your front door without it, you have chosen to be a sheep.”
Colonel, USAFR
Leftists, I’m sure, HATE that analogy.
They don’t like to think of themselves as sheep, or wolves, and they sure know they aren’t sheepdogs.
Deep down, I’m sure they understand that what they believe is detrimental to human prosperity,
but they hold on so tightly to their self-righteousness through their advocacy that they can’t give it up.