David Hogg, the Parkland shooting survivor who said he would temporarily forgo college to focus on the 2018 midterms, called on followers to elect candidates who weren’t career politicians.
In his tweet, however, he seemed to dehumanize people who didn’t push gun control legislation:
We don’t need Democrats or Republicans to be elected we need fucking human beings that actually give a shit about kids dying.
Elect human beings NOT career politicians.
— Vote November 6th (@davidhogg111) July 12, 2018
Hogg went on to set up an apparent distinction between career politicians and “human beings” who cared about kids.
In a tweet posted earlier in the same hour, Hogg also claimed that House Appropriations Republicans didn’t care about kids after they blocked funding for gun violence research – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]After the Parkland shooting, David Hogg became a political figure mostly because he was for gun control and it was unseemly to harshly criticize someone who survived a mass shooting, no matter how uninformed their opinions might be.
In a tweet from earlier this week, Hogg wondered “why is it culturally acceptable for any elected official to take money from special interests? In America, we call it campaign donations the rest of the world calls it what it is, a bribe.”
Also, why is it culturally acceptable for any elected official to take money from special interests? In America we call it campaign donations the rest of the world calls it what it is, a bribe.
— Vote November 6th (@davidhogg111) July 6, 2018
“Adequately represented” lmao guns have more rights than women
— Vote November 6th (@davidhogg111) July 6, 2018
Please enroll in that class posthaste. This is getting excruciatingly painful to watch. – READ MORE
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