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Kashuv Sends Hogg Blunt Message About His Public Whining

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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.

As a millennial might say: ^^^THIS^^^

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.

Do you agree with Kyle Kashuv?
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.

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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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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.
C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).
Birthplace
Morristown, New Jersey
Education
Catholic University of America
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish
Topics of Expertise
American Politics, World Politics, Culture




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