Hogg is quoted as saying: "They're pathetic fuckers that want to keep killing our children."
Hardly responsible or principled. And why did he say it? Because these people happen not to agree with his stance.
He is a Highschool kid. Is he rioting? Burning stuff down? Why no. One angry impassioned response and he “isn’t responsible or principled”. People disagree with his stance and will do anything to shred his character because...just possibly they might make a difference?
First of all, you don't have to riot and burn to be irresponsible and unprincipled. What he said was untrue and insulting. Secondly, if my kid used that much profanity in an interview, I'd yank him out of there by his shorthairs and wash his mouth out with Remington gun oil. Thirdly, people keep bringing up the fact that he's just a kid. On the one hand, everyone's creaming their liberal jeans and saying "Look at these high school kids getting out there and making a statement and taking a stand on the issue", and on the other hand, when they're criticized it's "But they're just high school kids!".
You can't have it both ways. And being a high school kid does not justify making those kinds of presumptuous and insulting moral judgments of people he doesn't know. I'd have thought his ex FBI father would have taught him better than that.
A couple of things to think about here.
1. We've become a culture that APPLAUDS expletives, and I don't just mean liberals. Conservatives are just as bad. Look at the profanity that came out of Milo Y's mouth - yet he was applauded as a great rightwing speaker. Look at what comes out of our President's mouth - a President elected by the CONSERVATIVES. So excuse me if I'm just a wee bit cynical about the sudden horror and palpitations when a teenager uses expletives. To quote yourself - you can't have it both ways.
You're right, there's probably a little too much profanity out there. But the thing is, Milo and Trump are both adults. Look, his profanity doesn't bother me at all so there's no "horror and palpitations" from this quarter. I point it out because, well, he is a kid as everyone keeps pointing out, and when I see him talk like that and insulting people the way he does, I'm just not moved by his rhetoric. He doesn't come across to me as a conscientious social warrior, he just comes across as a foul-mouthed pissed off kid.
2. The left (justifiably) got a lot of crap over anti-Trump demonstrations and Antifa's violence (even though we didn't largely support it). Fine. Now we have young people utilizing our rights - the right to petition the government. The right to demonstrate. And it's civil. But oh no. That's bad too. To quote yourself - you can't have it both ways.
It's great that the demonstrations are civil and it's great that they're exercising their Constitutional rights and personally, I have no problem with that. You and others here keep coming to their defense and telling us what they did
not do or did
not say. What they do not do or do not say is irrelevant. I'm concerned with what he
did say and that was to call these politicians "...pathetic fuckers that want to kill more children." Am I supposed to just dismiss this because he did not kill a puppy yesterday?
Here's my view. He is FAR from unprincipled. He is VERY principled, and he is in pursuit of a very moral cause.
He may or may not be principled, I'm not arguing that he isn't. But what he
said was definitely unprincipled.
You just don't happen to agree with it. That's fine. Every cause has many different legitimate views attached to it. The left certainly gets to hear your side when you hammer over and over how we want to kill kids by creating "gun free zones". To quote yourself - you can't have it both ways.
Irresponsible? I don't see it. Immature maybe. But that is to be expected. And I'm willing to bet if these kids were marching for arming teachers and concealed carry - you'd be cheering them on.
And you would lose that bet. I've never said anything for or against arming teachers.