His sin: Telling fellow disabled vets to empower themselves and not be lured into government dependency.

Via Free Beacon:

…One of the reasons that policymakers fear to discuss such issues is the threat of being demagogued. Gade’s argument here is a careful one. It is not that veterans are moochers, or that they don’t deserve disability, but that the system, as currently designed, lures them into dependency and a sense of victimhood. The system makes their lives worse. Obviously this argument does not contradict the fact that there are many who deserve and will need disability for the rest of their lives.

But those whose careers depend on making sure that veterans see themselves as victims don’t have time for a lot of nuance. The prize, in this case, goes to Greg Jacobs, the policy director at the Service Women’s Action Network, or SWAN. SWAN is a radical left-wing group that, in the current administration, has managed the neat trick of passing itself off as something more or less mainstream. Here is Jacob’s response to the Times article [pictured above] . Remember, his organization claims to speak for the mainstream of American veterans…

A “bootstrapper,” for those not familiar with the lingo, is a term of abuse on the left, reserved for those who fail to check their privilege, and who believe, say, in the power of hard work. Never mind that the last thing that Gade is suggesting is that vets are “lazy moochers.” Also, if Gade were an African-American female, how would that change the discussion? Would Jacobs be less offended, or would he just have to retreat to more a more defensible position on the battlefield of identity politics, to avoid actually having to engage with the argument at hand?

In case you were wondering, when they are not suggesting that the Abraham Lincoln quote that graces the headquarters of the VA in Washington is too gender-specific and ought to be removed, the folks at SWAN like to brag about their access to the White House.

Read it all…http://weaselzippers.us/210741-wh-tied-g...ender-specific/

I didn't know pulling yourself up from adversity was raciss. Did anybody else here know? Did I miss a memo?

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'A Bootstrapped" ... hmmm ...I wonder how that ranks alongside being a islamophobe, racist, homophobe, xenophobe, tea bagger, gun toting bible thumper, ....

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