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Scientific American: 'Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?' Because They’re Uneducated Racists?
newsbusters.org ^ | 3/17/2018 | Clay Waters

Posted on 03/18/2018 8:53:00 AM PDT by rktman

Scientific American continues on its activist leftward path, diluting its scientific brand by transmitting biased anti-gun propaganda under the cover of academic sociology.

The latest entry was posted Wednesday and has become a popular post: “Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? -- Research suggests it's largely because they're anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears.”

If that headline wasn’t a giveaway, writer Jeremy Adam Smith's bio left little hope for an objective take: “....author or co-editor of four books, including The Compassionate Instinct and Are We Born Racist?”

After pointing out that “Since the 2008 election of President Obama, the number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. has tripled....” Smith asked “So, who is buying all these guns -- and why?”

His answer, boiled down: Dumb racists.

....The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male -- but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.

These are men who are anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears. They tend to be less educated....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; nazis; racis
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Yup. Dumbasses, undeducated, egg-nerent, redneckish, low self esteemers. If ya own a gun, you're.....BOOM!....a racis'. "Scientific 'Murica said so. Oh, didn't they also say algore's glowbull warming is also true? Fidiots! (Did a search for this and didn't see it, in any case, thought you ought to know! LOL!)
1 posted on 03/18/2018 8:53:00 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

NON print version:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2018/03/17/scientific-american-why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns-because


2 posted on 03/18/2018 8:54:00 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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It’s important to stereotype, slander, and dehumanize a victim class before embarking on genocide.


3 posted on 03/18/2018 8:55:31 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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White men are a targeted minority. Guns may end up being our only defense.


4 posted on 03/18/2018 8:56:00 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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Scientific American stopped being about science a long time ago.


5 posted on 03/18/2018 8:56:07 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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There is no Truth in Pravda.
There is no News in Izvestia.
There is no Science in Scientific American.


6 posted on 03/18/2018 8:57:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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“....The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male — but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.”

Yeah, he can actually read the Bill of Rights and the Constitution...


7 posted on 03/18/2018 8:57:37 AM PDT by Frank Sheed (The injustice of trendiness is nearly dualistic in its isomorphism.)
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And Scientific American wonders why I stopped subscribing!

I had a subscription since grade school. I stopped in the 1980s when they wasted magazine space with article after article on how Reagan deploying Pershings in Europe would cause WWIII.


8 posted on 03/18/2018 8:59:18 AM PDT by Reily
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I was educated enough to cancel my 20+ year subscription when they changed from science to leftwing politics.

ML/NJ

9 posted on 03/18/2018 8:59:50 AM PDT by ml/nj
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Why do people on the left think it is an automatic right of their’s to mock us? They are the simpletons who probably willingly got on the trains to prove they were smarter than the rest when. Then insisted there was no danger - and besides THEY would sent a strongly worded protest on our behalf if they were wrong.


10 posted on 03/18/2018 9:00:19 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Frank Sheed

Scientific American: ‘Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?’ Because They’re Uneducated Racists?

They’re Uneducated Racists?

So say those that have been educated far beyond their intelligence.


11 posted on 03/18/2018 9:00:53 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Washinton DC, District of Corruption proven daily)
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Coincidentally, the answer to this thread is to be found in the thread immediately below it

Warnings from a Survivor of Communism

12 posted on 03/18/2018 9:04:46 AM PDT by tomkat
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Correct!


13 posted on 03/18/2018 9:05:45 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King!)
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Racists? Straight white males are the only group having no protection against discrimination. They are beaten up in divorce courts. They have to pay their own way through college and STEM training. Made to feel guilty for others being their own worst enemy. Tolerated only if they are democrats.


14 posted on 03/18/2018 9:07:43 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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Well, let's see...

170 IQ... yep, I'm dumb.

GA Southern and University of Northern Colorado... Yep, I'm uneducated.

Lifelong friends who happen to be a different color than me... Yep, I'm a racist.

Boy, this guy has me nailed!

15 posted on 03/18/2018 9:09:14 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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Because we aren’t stupid


16 posted on 03/18/2018 9:11:07 AM PDT by uncbob
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It is disgusting that portraying White Men as scary villains by default is treated as acceptable.


17 posted on 03/18/2018 9:12:22 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Frank Sheed

Not just read, some can do what most libs can NOT do. Actually use comprehension skills. It’s not that hard.


18 posted on 03/18/2018 9:12:27 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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> Research suggests it’s largely because they’re anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears. <

Scientific American is pulling an old trick here. I guess some white men have guns because they are “beset by racial fears”. But 99.9% of them have guns for either a sporting use or to protect their families.

Yet Scientific American lists “beset by racial fears” as a co-equal with the other reasons. And the sporting use isn’t even mentioned.

It would be like listing “drug-running” as one reason white men buy trucks. Because some white guy was once caught with a kilo of marijuana hidden in the back of his truck.


19 posted on 03/18/2018 9:12:40 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Socon-Econ

Trying to keep our white privilege secret still? Free houses, cars, gas, groceries, education, medical care. Life’s grand huh? Again, how much do they pay somebody to come up with this crap?


20 posted on 03/18/2018 9:15:18 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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