Comparisons that morally uplift one side are often factually misleading about the cited figures.

Evidence

Such comments are a diversionary, exploitation of the woman suffrage and civil rights movements in the service of the gun industry. Neither Susan B. Anthony nor those she inspired won women’s voting rights with guns. Rosa Parks sparked the civil rights movement by nonviolent resistance to institutionalized discrimination. Given her commitment to social change by nonviolent means, she would probably be appalled to see her name used in support of the gun industry. For its comparative ennoblement, the NRA also recruited George Mason and Patrick Henry, who fought for the Bill of Rights, and distinguished scientists such as Einstein and Pasteur. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1083

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-panic and framing literature about how complex movements get flattened into single usable symbols; also parallels the reading on how identity labels get co-opted for opposing agendas.
• SEED: Essay angle: how movements get hijacked posthumously — the Rosa Parks pattern where a group’s most radical anti-institutional stance becomes a corporate or industry seal of approval.