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In reply to the discussion: A tweet from David Hogg to Sen. Chuck Schumer [View all]ramen
(790 posts)Your suggestion that he is a "privileged ballsac" who is "whinging" and needs to shut up is more or less exactly the problem that I hear my Gen Z students bring up about the Democrats in my generation and the ones before me. Hogg is an activist and a powerful voice for gun control. The fact that you are either choosing not to know that or that it doesn't register with you is entirely your call.
From my perspective, telling someone who was lucky enough to survive that tragedy and who is mobilizing anti-gun youth to sit down, stop whining, and wait their turn is a pretty good way to let republican gun fetishists peel off parts of the youth electorate. Obama famously asked us to hold his feet to the fire. I think he meant it, and I think it's on all of us to hold all representative's feet to the same fire until meaningful legislation is passed.