Yeah as soon as I saw the right wing attacks start, and you could even see the coordination as far as the same memes and particular lines of attack coming from all of your conservative leaning connections, my immediate reaction was oh, wow, yeah this isn’t going to go how you think its going to go. Like Bane in Dark Knight Rises, these kids grew up with social media as part of their existence, us adults just learned how to use it. Attacking them there is pretty much suicide.
The Motor City Madman has proclaimed that the Stoneman kids are “liars”, and “poor mushy-brained children.” They “have no soul” and are committing “spiritual suicide” by advocating for gun control.
Mr Nugent is a member of the NRA board of directors.
Says the guy that shat and pissed his pants for a week to get out of the draft…
He may have just opened up a new line of attack against the NRA itself.
Nugent has been getting away with this “Crazy Ted” act because a bunch of 60 year-old Viagra popping tattooed men riding around on Harleys remember he used to have a few good tunes back in the 1970s.
I think that’s the important thing to keep in mind. There’s a demographic shift. Crooked conservatism can win at this sick game if they can divide the electorate according to race and religion, but millennials collectively are going to be their Waterloo.
I’ve never seen the NRA so afraid of a smart kid.
Millennials and post-millennials are - I won’t say post racial, because they aren’t - but they are much more racially aware (my kids don’t let me say “woke”) of their own bias and the bias of society. It makes less of a difference to them. White kids from urban and suburban areas - and a lot of rural white kids too - will have gone to school with people of color - they will have discovered that they don’t all fit the stereotypes. And then there is the huge population of multi-racial people in their generation who don’t fit in a box - making you wonder how much of a box there really is.
Likewise, they are much more likely to have gone to school with kids of different faiths - when my daughter was in seventh grade the teacher used religion to make a point about culture - and went around the room asking people what their faith was. She had as many non-Christians - including Muslims and atheists and Pagans and kids who simply had never participated in any faith at all - as she had Christians. Its hard to paint all Muslims as terrorists when one of the nicest girls in your class wore a hijab.
Hogg posted the rejections in the hope one of the UC campuses would feel pressure to change their minds and admit him.
Some of his/ their critics have been asshats that just used insults. However, their status as children shouldn’t shield them from reasonable criticism.
Remember when all kinds of proposals in the past decade or so were justified with “for the children”? It was used because it works.
You want to be able to criticize the young man for having a 4.2 GPA? What was yours?
I wonder how you know this.
Ah, yes, the “reasonable” word.
Well, aside from the people who think “anyone younger than me isn’t really human and should therefore stop making talky-noises” is a “reasonable” objection to what Hogg has to say, you apparently think that it’s “unreasonable” for someone to attempt to turn a tragedy into something which helps them reach their goals. That seems quite unreasonable as well.
He’s an anti-school-shooting activist. Literally everything he’s doing in the political sphere is for the children. Trying to throw that in his face is the kind of puling sanctimony I expect from people who have no actual argument.