Teens rankle the right with gun activism

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The young activists who have pressed for stricter gun control since the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in February have got under the right’s skin, even as the success of their broader push for legislative change remains uncertain.

The most infamous example is the controversy around Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host.

Ingraham apologized to Parkland survivor David Hogg last week after an earlier tweet seemed to gloat at his college rejections.

Actor Frank Stallone similarly apologized for a tweet in which he called Hogg a “coward” and a “rich little bitch.”

The anger directed at Hogg shows no signs of ebbing. Writing for Breitbart, James Delingpole on Sunday argued that Ingraham should not have apologized to the 17-year-old activist, whom he derided as “frankly sinister” and prone to "whiny entitlement."

Veterans of previous movements aimed at social change say that those kinds of furious reactions are signs that the protesters are gaining ground.

“If there was no opposition, a movement wouldn’t be needed. By definition a movement to change important things in society will get opposition,” said Larry Rubin, a veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) campaigns to integrate the South in the 1960s.

Rubin cited the Ingraham attack on Hogg as part of a pattern of “ad hominem attacks,” comparable to how protesters working for racial equality during the civil rights struggle were labeled communists.

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[niyad]

1. the attacks on these brave young people is beyond disgusting. they are suposed to sit

down, shut up, and let the adults in the room handle things as they always have. these young people are being accused of all manner of dreadful things--so very telling.

is that fear I hear in the attacks?