We need a Pro-RKBA group on DU

[apocalypsehow]

128. We'll try it again: DU TOS states "Democratic Underground is an online community

for politically liberal people who understand the importance of working within the system to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans to all levels of political office. Teabaggers, Neo-cons, Dittoheads, Paulites, Freepers, Birthers, and right-wingers in general are not welcome here" (emphases added).

Not one thing in the DU TOS mentions people who think they "actually SUPPORT the Bill of Rights" in the manner you and your pals do, i.e., by willfully misreading and misconstruing the 2nd amendment to the Constitution in a right-wing manner, have any business here: indeed, quite the opposite. The "RKBA" cause is a right-wing cause, not a progressive one. It is the cause of the NRA, of Antonin Scalia, of nearly every Republican elected official in the country, and nearly every conservative commentator who opines with any kind of platform whatsoever.

So, yes: "tolerated" is the precisely correct word. And, yes, it takes gall to pretend it is anything otherwise: for all sorts of reasons that I'm sure are complicated, scarcely-disguised right-wingers are pretty much allowed a sub-forum here to spew right-wing talking points. That's fine by me, but let's not pretend there actually is any such thing as a "pr-RKBA progressive." There is not.

Handy link to the original (which can also be seen by scrolling up slightly with your mouse):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=67738