There’s a neat encapsulation of American party politics in that. The modern Democrats are a bit racist and a lot classist. The GOP are a bit classist and a lot racist [1].
The Democrats’ gun messaging focuses on poverty. The GOP gun messaging focuses on race.
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[1] Which is not to imply equality between the parties. The classism of the GOP is as bad as that of the Dems, and their racism is much worse.
Black left Twitter is pushing back hard on Liberal gun control messaging; they don’t trust the Trumpists with this, for good reason.
https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/915099427697823744
Liberals continuing to heavily push the “disarm the mentally ill” angle, too.
https://twitter.com/dsadenver/status/913252646311534592
https://mobile.twitter.com/libertarianism/status/913011139830796294
https://twitter.com/BlackBlocBoi/status/914892841217912832
https://twitter.com/BlackBlocBoi/status/914893691780845574
https://twitter.com/BlackBlocBoi/status/914894296981164033
https://twitter.com/BlackBlocBoi/status/914895418215026688
History thread:
This is Vox’s latest response to the Vegas massacre:
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/915143137038929921
On the one hand: an interesting and relevant article.
On the other hand: militarism. Constant, reflexive worship of all things military. This is the water that US culture swims in.
Ta-Nehisi Coates gives Colbert the most soft-peddled version of reality possible, but Colbert still pushes back on it.
And his gun control opener was literally a promise of collaboration with anything the GOP proposes.
Very good episode:
Most of the comment thread on this is just bitter sarcasm, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
Lively gun control debate on Black Twitter. Splitting at least partially on gender lines.
It’s also bringing up some strange arguments; seeing Killer Mike cite the Revolutionary War as a part of his personal history of liberation was a bit weird.
There are times when I adore the British left. 
https://twitter.com/man_in_radiator/status/915038849281220608
https://twitter.com/thebellman/status/915228999814717441
https://twitter.com/BeejPr/status/915231297999601664
https://twitter.com/thebellman/status/915240155593809921
https://twitter.com/DanKaszeta/status/915300266173444096
https://twitter.com/mollyluna11/status/915307885751623682
https://twitter.com/DanKaszeta/status/915308942644924416