OK. Please tell me I am not the only one who thinks that as irony, this would be brilliant, but as opinion it’s truly among the dumbest (and scariest) comments I’ve seen.
From an actual (and prolific) Breitbart commenter:
Anyone that protests against our well established constitutional rights should be locked up. That’ll teach Hogg a leason about democracy!
It’s a troll.
How can I tell? Simple: Nobody is really stupid or an extremist.
Therefore, all stupid/extremist views are expressed by trolls.
Laura Ingram (of Fox) is eating her words against Hogg because sponsers are pulling their ads. She has even apologized. I don’t think bad-mouthing these survivors is a good idea or, profitable, for that matter.
It wasn’t much of an apology. And now I hear she’s going on vacation, probably hopes that it will all blow over by the time she gets back.
The Parkland kids are really getting under the Right-wingers skin. Good. It’s about time somebody called them on their nonsense.
When Laura Ingram mocked Hogg for not getting into the college of his choice (which is pretty reprehensible in my view, especially for someone versed in media), Hogg didn’t get bent out of shape. Instead he just posted a list of her advertisers on twitter. Pick one and give them a call.
You don’t negotiate with trolls. Or repeat offender bullies. You stand up to them.
Hogg’s current take: https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/979849593859989505
[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT] I 100% agree an apology in an effort just to save your advertisers is not enough. I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight. It’s time to love thy neighbor, not mudsling at children. [/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT] There are classy, non-clownish ways of disagreeing with the Parkland survivors. (There are also honest nonevasive ways of considering gun safety policy.) Repeated personal attacks should be met with (nonviolent) force, not finger wagging.
Stated another way: Don’t try to fight, try to win.
It’s basic strategy: Look for supply lines and disrupt them as much as possible. Attack weakness, not strength, and use terrain to your advantage.
In this case, her supply lines are advertisers, and outing them is the only effective form of attack. Her strength is catty slapfights, so deny her one, and go after a position she can’t defend, which again is her advertisers’ PR. Finally, the terrain is Twitter, where you have conversations in public, so she can’t redact what you say, so a simple tweet about who is still financially supporting her can’t be culled by FOX News.
“You want a day or two to get a pet sitter for your dog, empty your fridge, find someone to water your plants, or should we just send over the U.S. Marshals to cart you off right now? You’re obviously protesting the well-established right of freedom to peaceably assemble, so it’s the hoosegow fer YOU!”
The Parkland survivors have already demonstrated that they are the wrong kids to fuck with. These conservatives thought they could harass and intimidate them in the same way they terrorize sexual assault survivors. They were wrong, and now they’re confused, and even a little bit scared. I love it.
It’s an interesting example of how strong you can be when you don’t have the same incentives as your enemy.
The kids and the assholes do have one incentive in common: They both want attention. From there, their incentives diverge greatly: The kids want attention for a political cause which can be taken up as a crusade, whereas the assholes want attention for money. Therefore, the kids have an avenue of assault, the attack on the advertiser revenue supply lines, which their enemies cannot use against them; in fact, they might be able to turn this into a tarpit for the assholes, goading them into saying ever-more-obnoxious things in an attempt to attack the kids, only for that fundamental viciousness to resonate wrong with more and more people who become energized enough to contact advertisers and press the assault.
The assholes want to be exposed. Let them die of exposure.
The difference between them and the sexual assault victims is interesting as well: There’s no way for the assholes to turn their cause back on them except among the people who are already against them totally. Unlike the old “naming and shaming the whores” routine, trying to demonize school shooting survivors is a tactic which is like a markedly less-intelligent version of Stalin’s Scorched Earth Policy: Protect your standing with the base by utterly destroying your ability to claim any ideological groups outside your base. And, again, it destroys the supply lines.
It may very well be the young adults that save us from trump. I don’t have time at the moment to look up who sponsors any and all of FOX ‘News’. But perhaps the best way to vote is with our dollars. There are plenty of us in our later years that do make money and can chose to buy products that don’t support FOX. We need a list. I’ll look for one later.
Right when this all started with the lead up to the 3-14 walkout, I noticed the attacks beginning from the right and I said to a couple of people that were taking up that tactic on social media that I really think that attacking these kids is a tactical error, I even said that it might end up being one of the biggest self owns in political history.
They walked right into it though, and seem to not have any other strategy, so I’m just watching this all unfold exactly as I predicted it would.
There is a whole lot of nasty dumb online, and there are days when it makes me sad.
And the best part is that they aren’t going to take the high road and accept their fake-ass apologies. These kids get it: it’s take to go Cobra Kai on these mother fuckers.
#Sweeptheleg
Nitpick: Laura “Ingraham.”
Of course she made an error, and she’s paying for it. She started a fight she couldn’t win. How stupid.
It’s an oxymoron. Emphasis on the last two syllables. And posted by an oxygen thief. So I suppose it should be hyphenated. 
If she had left out the “in the spirit of holy week” part, it would have been much better. For me, that’s what changed it from “I’m sorry” to “The teacher is making me say I’m sorry (even though I’m not)” or at the very least “I’m feeling generous because it’s almost Easter”.
There’s this One Simple Rule About Republicans.
If they protest, it is patriotic.
If others protest, it is treason.
Yeah, the holy week thing really irritated me too. As if the only time to do the right thing is near Easter, otherwise, fuck it I guess? Also because of the naked ploy to wrap herself in religion for her right wing christian followers benefit. Jesus would do a reprise of the moneychangers in the temple scene on her if he was here.