Kashuv Sends Hogg Blunt Message About His Public Whining
David Hogg has spent the last month and a half in the public spotlight.
And yet, when anyone criticizes him, he retreats behind a how-dare-you stance — after all,
he is a survivor of the Parkland shooting.
The latest instance of this came after Fox News' Laura Ingraham made jokes about Hogg's
complaints about being rejected from certain colleges.
Ingraham has since apologized, but Hogg has turned his Twitter account into a one-man
vendetta to get Ingraham's sponsors to drop her.
"What's the beef?"
Hogg asked Arby's in a since deleted tweeted.
Now, without going into whether Ingraham's decision was a bad one, she's since apologized
for it, and nothing vulgar or conspiratorial was said about Hogg.
(The same can't be said for those who lashed out at Ingraham, mind you.)
However, Hogg has given his entire Twitter feed over to Ingraham's removal.
Oh, and there are also tweets about how RedState got a story wrong because of a profoundly
bad CBS News quote.
In a counter-tweet, Kyle Kashuv — the most prominent of the conservative Parkland students
— pointed out the hole in Hogg's reasoning.
Hogg (and those who have taken up his cause) have shamelessly hid behind his relative youth
and what he's experienced to state that nothing can reasonably said about him.
Yet, he alone chose to become a public figure.
Nobody pressured him into that decision.
This is what happens to public figures — including Kashuv — when they enter the political arena.
It is not our job to make exceptions, particularly in the case of Hogg, who wants to tell us
what rights we can and cannot have.
Perhaps more importantly, Hogg and the other activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School have already been protected by the mainstream media in a way we've really never
seen before.
These students have interjected themselves into public discourse, as Kashuv points out.
Public discourse can be ugly.
However, it's sad that Hogg — and gun control advocates — want to push their opinions
and then hide behind this young man's status as a victim.
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