Twitter Blasts David Brooks For Suggesting The Left Should ‘Show Respect To Gun Owners’
New York Times columnist David Brooks is taking heat for suggesting that people should “show respect” to gun owners during policy debate on guns.
In a piece called, “Respect First, Then Gun Control,” Brooks argues in favor of civil discourse, but took the position that the left will never see gun reform unless they respectfully comprehend the right’s position and for the to “lead the way” in preventing school shootings.
“So if you want to stop school shootings it’s not enough just to vent and march,” Brooks wrote. “It’s necessary to let people from Red America lead the way, and to show respect to gun owners at all points.”
Well, that really set off Twitter.
In which David Brooks argues that when 17 people get gunned down in a high school the most important thing is to be polite and deferential https://t.co/eskBvnyZLh
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 20, 2018
On the one hand you have that vile David Brooks column telling kids who just survived a gun massacre to show some respect to gun owners, and on the other you have the alt-right/Fox News smear machine starting its smear campaign. Nice.
— manu saadia ? (@trekonomics) February 20, 2018
you (an idiot): maybe we should engage activists, mount pressure campaigns, mobilize disaffected voters
David Brooks (politics genius, esq.): this reeks of Labels, I’m afraid
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) February 20, 2018
This is a David Brooks column and like all Brooks columns it is stupid but it’s old school stupid and not in the antiliberal clickbait way nyt opinion has been trending https://t.co/nWdYziMpF0
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 20, 2018
on guns, david brooks proposes a bridge to nowhere — with lots of safe spaces along the way for gun owners to feel unthreatened while the people who don’t like being shot dead apologize for antagonizing them by advocating for life-saving policies https://t.co/D5xja7B5KY
— Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) February 20, 2018
In high school, I had a calculus teacher who, apropos of nothing, would go on mid-class rants about liberal politics. These rants were devoid of humor, nuance or self-awareness. They were unwanted and contributed nothing.
Every time David Brooks trends, I think of that teacher. https://t.co/vSV8iyr3RV
— Charlotte Clymer?️? (@cmclymer) February 20, 2018
In high school, I had a calculus teacher who, apropos of nothing, would go on mid-class rants about liberal politics. These rants were devoid of humor, nuance or self-awareness. They were unwanted and contributed nothing.
Every time David Brooks trends, I think of that teacher. https://t.co/vSV8iyr3RV
— Charlotte Clymer?️? (@cmclymer) February 20, 2018
Also obviously and as always maximum respect to David Brooks, a person who has never not had a doorman in his adult life, for Respecting Gun Owners And Their Beliefs.
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) February 20, 2018
Congrats to David Brooks pic.twitter.com/Nev8UkTb7e
— Dave Anthony, LLC. (@daveanthony) February 20, 2018
The #Parkland massacre is, for David Brooks, a great opportunity for liberals to eat shit in atonement for their disrespectful anti-gun prejudices https://t.co/QVTg82TCCG
— Chase Madar (@ChaseMadar) February 20, 2018
american horror story: i was tricked into clicking on a david brooks column
— Erik Malinowski (@erikmal) February 20, 2018
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