Discussion: David Hogg: I Won't Accept Ingraham's Apology Until She's 'More Objective'

As a student at Dartmouth she attended a LGBT meeting, undercover, and outed the attendees, then hid behind the “first amendment”.

Apparently her views on LGBT rights moderated after her brother turned out to be gay - as if it’s some badge of honor to become accepting only when it directly affects someone with whom you have a close family relationship.

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Alas, she speaks for most yahoos in this country. Let’s not forget that. Our local suburban daily has letters calling those kids commies. I was called a commie because I warned about the sell-off of federal lands.
This shooter is getting tons of fan mail. Should not be a shock. Bundy and Manson had their fan clubs, too.

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I love that Hogg is kicking her bully ass right where it hurts. These kids have a special license after what they have experienced. Plus, they don’t have to tread as carefully as someone who has to keep a job.

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I’m going out on a limb here but I honestly think these kids know what they’re dealing with when they’re attacked and disparaged this way. I very, very much doubt he’s actually voicing a belief that one day she might become objective and when that happens he’ll go on the show. I don’t hear a lot of naiveté from these kids. Just guessing but I think he’s using his own prominence to implicitly call her a damn propagandist whose only metric is where you fall on the political spectrum.

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And now this…

Laura Ingraham Claims Protesting Parkland Students Don’t Have Enough Gun Knowledge To Criticize Nicholas Cruz

/s

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They have the kind of “gun knowledge” that comes from being Cruz’s target, FFS.

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Wow, Ingraham might lose her advertisers. How frightening!

Not as frightening as approaching semi-automatic gunfire. Of course, Ingraham doesn’t know anything about that.

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Read that. All you can do is shake your head. If every planet in the galaxy had intelligent life the human capacity for callousness and cruelty would probably remain unique and shocking. I’m not sure empathy is the right tool to understand that kind of person.

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Right you are. This needed doing. We sometimes get lost in the weeds but these kids don’t. They see the problem and are doing something about it. The RW smear machine is being taken down, slowly and in full public view by a bunch of traumatized teenagers. It does the heart good.

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Hahahahahahaha good - she just keeps doubling down and losing.

Like I said yesterday - not only vicious but deeply stupid.

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In Bizzarro Retrospective News.

“Allies don’t have enough knowledge of “Vengeance Weapons” to criticize Hitler.”

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“But first I would need her to be more objective in the way she talks about us. But since her job is to be purely subjective, I’ll accept her apology when she quits her job."

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“Part of me wishes he’d just ignore these creatures and concentrate on leadership of that fast-growing popular movement for gun safety…”

I think his response has been measured, passionate, and appropriate. People have died. Some were his friends. No, if anything I think he and the other students are showing great restraint.

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HAHAHA, I totally thought of Boss Hogg too.

You know, I would say the kids are playing 3D chess while this wingnuts are playing checkers, but that isn’t an accurate analogy.

The kids are just being functional human beings. The wingnuts are sitting in the sandbox, throwing tantrums, and wondering why nobody wants to play along with them anymore.

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I bet Jesus would have pulled advertising for the Sermon on the Mount :slight_smile:

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Yes you got it. Every adult who criticizes them looks really bad for a whole host of reasons.

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Love these kids. Who knew that we would all be better off once our brightest children stopped respecting their elders?

Hmmm… we probably should have seen that coming tbh.

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They’ve also learned something important about bullies, maybe it’s because being still in school, bullying is a daily reality, and especially since they survived a penultimate act of bullying. And that is, you never shrink from a bully, you must confront and oppose their every act and utterance with calm, adamant resolve, you must seek to methodically embarrass and expose the bully’s cowardice and hypocrisy at every opportunity, and above all, once you land a blow, never ever EVER stop hitting them until they either beg for mercy, or are utterly destroyed.

I can think of 16 Republicans who 2 years ago failed on all these counts.

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